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| Behind the Temple: A truckload of aluminum cans for recycling |
Afterward, I went home switched vehicles to the S-10 and went to the Temple. Since it was raining ( and had been for two days straight), I decided to do some recycling. I also decided that today was the day to take a pic of everyone that I came into contact with in my rounds.
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| The office crew at Rumpke doing the "O-H-I-O" for Preston. |
The RLS recycling plant has just been bought out by Rumpke and they have changed the process a bit, making it a bit more time consuming. What was about a 10 minute job is now 25-30; as they open, sort and inspect every bag before they weigh. Before this they just weighed, emptied and saved the bags and weighed them (tare wt) for the difference. Still at 70¢/can who's complaining!
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| The parts guy:I bought new wiper blades. |
I stopped for wiper blades at the Ross Auto parts store at Douglas and Eastern. At Taylor's IGA I ordered butcher cut beef steak for jerkying that I'll pick up tomorrow and got sandwich spread for lunch today. They add cheese to their ham salad... MMmmMM. Rivers Bend owner, Jamie Sharp was in line with Tim the owner of the IGA at the register. Small businesses... you just gotta love them.
The rain kept up as I stopped at the feed store where I picked up rolled corn for chicken feed. It was raining so hard that I didn't get a pic of the guy there. I went back home and switched vehicles again (50mpg vs. 17 is a no-brainer). I also had to get the TDi to PMW, timing my visit so that it would be near lunchtime in order for me to squeeze the Jetta in on one of the racks to check out why I had lost the use of my emergency brake. One bound up cable... I ordered both. I'll fix them on Sunday or Monday.
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| Tim the owner in plaid. Bike shop Jamie was there, too. |
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| Randy, Josh and Dan all say a BIG HI to Preston. |
At PMW, Dan told me that his son (E-9) Jon's USAF flight to A'stan was cancelled enroute so he was headed back to Wright-Pat with a fuel leak. Jon was called back to service in 2001 and hasn't left. He is a senior flight engineer and is testing to became a drone pilot.
Jon's missions are a "little" shorter duration than Preston's and a "little" safer too, I should think. Evan's Franz is still sitting in the parking lot. Getterdone Boys.
I left the shop to get out to the cabin, get the chickens fed and check out the water
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| Sdad at the cabin porch door. |
manuevered the rear runoff pipe and
began to top off the middle tank. Only 3
eggs today. The birds still stayed away
from me. The temps were dropping and I got pretty wet working on the tanks. I started a quick fire in the stove and had lunch as I did a Sodoku puzzle. Jack was cold and wet and whined to come in with me. He loves the stove as much as Sam did.
I headed back to town and dropped off
Jack, stopping over at Meyer's to give
them some eggs. They have just about
finished a redo of their back room and
kitchen. After a quick visit, I was off to
pick up Spencer from school. We then
stopped off at the bike shop to kill 50
minutes or so before his dental checkup.
Harley Molebash was in today. Harley is
75 yo. An Eastend contemporary of Bro
OGene, they were on the HS track team
and shared a love of fast cars. Harley is
still a daily biker and rides with the Roadies often, but does most of his miles solo. He is such a character... he deserves his own post on this blog.
Spencer had a good dental report. BUT, we are going to be installing some braces soon.
That's five for five in the orthodontia area.
My five sons!
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| Two '37 Harleys with my Big Wheel in the background. |
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| Happy in the rain, even if recess was inside. |
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| Another Starwars Lego creation. |
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| Paul P and Connie Sue |
Spencer and I enjoyed the meal. He finished his homework and we read for an hour.
It was a great day in the rain. I hope Preston enjoys this report of it.
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| Tanks a lot! |
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