Title: September 28, 2024 - Salem
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I must have been tired after yesterday’s drive. I slept in till 8:20, way past my normal time. Both Andrea and Lawrence are up, but I found out later that Lawrence beat me up by five minutes. Andrea makes us waffles. I top my waffle with peanut butter and Nutella, what else?
We then sort of mosey around for a while. When we get moving it is about 11:30. Still, it is an enjoyable morning to be with family. Lawrence and I go to Lowes to pick up supplies for the gutter project. The gutter on their garage drains out near their trash can area. With them having redone their driveway and it sloping properly now, they would like the water to drain down the driveway.
We spent about an hour or more at Lowes. When we got back it was time for lunch. Lawrence makes us a turkey sandwich. Then it is time to work on the gutter. We dismantle the old gutter and work on getting the right pitch. Not sure we ever got it pitch perfect. But it is close. We get the first length up and realize that we need to put up an additional length of flashing. I go to the store while Lawrence works on fine tuning the work.
While putting up the second length of gutter, I figured out that we have the wrong size of joining length, so off to Lowes for the third time today. Lawrence also gets a socket which will fit the heads to screw into the eaves. This makes the work go a lot faster. By now it is getting towards evening. But we finish up the gutter and even get the downspout put in. We quit for the evening while still needing to close up and seal the joints, put in the end caps and attach the extra flashing. Stuff which Lawrence can do himself.
Andrea has made us drumsticks, potatoes and roasted vegetables. Feel pretty good. Then we talked about banned books. I do not think that we came to an agreement, but maybe a bit of understanding. There needs to be some sort of agreed upon criteria and the criteria should be pretty high.
I do not know if it is because of the long day driving yesterday, but I am once again tired. So it is time to go to bed.
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