Busy Days, Life is Good

That’s me cutting access to bathroom (shower) plumbing

People ask how I am.  I tell them I am stable. It’s good to be stable, and it’s good to be busy. I’m thankful I am able to be busy.

October’s days were packed.  Every weekend, most evenings, and even some week days were spent working at our vacant rental house.

As the tenants were moving out, we discovered a mysterious, spongy hump growing under the linoleum in the bathroom floor. The tenants said they hadn’t noticed it.

It turned out the water heater had been leaking and the underlayment was mostly destroyed.  There was also some previous or ongoing damage to the laundry room floor.

Plywood holds up better if exposed to water
Particle board underlayment
Diane filling the first of what must have been 300 holes in the walls

Once the work began, the list of things that needed repair rolled out like a scroll, including things that, “now” was as-good-a-time-as-any to do.

Brandon & Emily at Southwestern University

We spent Thanksgiving at Brandon and Emily’s house in Georgetown, Texas. Brandon is teaching there.

Robin and Aubrie joined us the day after.  I’m glad we got to spend that time together.  It felt like a summer break for us as we did most of our strolling around in shorts and sandals.

Emily, Brandon, Diane, Scott, Betty, Robin, Aubrie. That’s all of us. Thanks for the picture, Robin
We played some serious board games

2 thoughts on “Busy Days, Life is Good”

  1. HELLO Scott glad your doing ok .  NOTHING new out our way. Just same old same. We are getting the house ready for xmas. O ya Diane did run into an eye problem but she is doing much better now. I have gone into 16 th scale tanks for I can not build the ships for health related resons.    Ya belive it or not I am rebuilding my RC ten for the third time . We have a driver that runs at the track with one and he is good driver so I decided to run with him .Useing a set up I got  off of the RC ten talk board . So it could be intresting   .  OK  buddy take care keep us posted and thanks   DON
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    1. Hi, Don: Thanks for the note. I’m glad Diane is doing better. I’m also glad to hear someone is still running an RC-10. I think I have one or two out in the RC Tomb; maybe one day I’ll get one out and try to run it.

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