2008-05-07
Shopping
The concrete guys arrived at the house around 7am and removed the forms --- I woke Ed up and asked if he wanted to see what they were doing. After a moments thought he grunted, rolled over and went back to sleep.
I had told my mom I would go shopping with her today, so I packed myself up and drove 2 hours to Burlington. My mom had replaced the cushions on a couple of wooden rockers in her TV room and now the curtains looked awful so they needed replacing. At the blind store she found blinds she liked, so we "borrowed", with a $50 deposit (they really want the books back), a sample book and drove back to her house to choose the colour. It took a while but we were glad we had borrowed the book as the colour she ended up with was not one we had thought about.
Later in the afternoon I found myself in an interesting place --- I had put a lawn chair cushion on the concrete floor by the washing machine and was sitting on it with a large flashlight nearby, a book and reading glasses. Lucky me was babysitting a load of laundry with the goal of trying to determine where "all the water" was coming from. Every time the machine did something different I would grab the flashlight and peer in through the back panel and feel around for water --- no leak. I did notice drips on the taps where the water hoses were connected. Those drips ran down the hoses and when the machine went into spin mode were shaken off. Hope I found the source of the leak. Can't blame my mom for not seeing it as she's 84 and her eyesight is not as good as it use to be.
Pretty spiffy foundation.
I had told my mom I would go shopping with her today, so I packed myself up and drove 2 hours to Burlington. My mom had replaced the cushions on a couple of wooden rockers in her TV room and now the curtains looked awful so they needed replacing. At the blind store she found blinds she liked, so we "borrowed", with a $50 deposit (they really want the books back), a sample book and drove back to her house to choose the colour. It took a while but we were glad we had borrowed the book as the colour she ended up with was not one we had thought about.
Later in the afternoon I found myself in an interesting place --- I had put a lawn chair cushion on the concrete floor by the washing machine and was sitting on it with a large flashlight nearby, a book and reading glasses. Lucky me was babysitting a load of laundry with the goal of trying to determine where "all the water" was coming from. Every time the machine did something different I would grab the flashlight and peer in through the back panel and feel around for water --- no leak. I did notice drips on the taps where the water hoses were connected. Those drips ran down the hoses and when the machine went into spin mode were shaken off. Hope I found the source of the leak. Can't blame my mom for not seeing it as she's 84 and her eyesight is not as good as it use to be.
Pretty spiffy foundation.
# posted by The Agnew Family @ 7:38 AM 
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