4 Days (Monday) and counting
- Busy day planned - maybe even pack
- But first waste an hour trying to figure out why the water bill is about 5 times higher than normal
- Ernie did a lot of gardening and took more showers
- I drank a lot of water
- One toilet had a very small random leak
- The pool did NOT need filling
- No kids came home to do their laundry
- No one filled the Jacuzzi
- Ernie did water the lawn, garden, banana trees, eggplants, tomatoes, strawberries, peppers, mangos, peach tree, pomegranate tree, avocado tree, loquat tree, cherry tree, pineapples, mint, parsley, rosemary, thyme (what no sage?). Is he the culprit? Who knows?
- Time to hem Ernie's pants
- Ernie puts on pants
- Ernie puts on shoes
- Sherrie measures, pins, unpins, measures
- 3 1/2 inches is the final number
- Draw lines on pants with hem chalk
- Fold old hem over 3 times - missing 1/2 "
- Mark 1 1/2" up with chalk
- Fold up and iron
- Redo math - should have had coffee first
- Wipe off chalk mark
- Mark 1 3/4" up with chalk
- Iron
- Double fold up, pin and iron
- Thread machine
- Sew hem
- Get 3/4 around when realize the material gaps a lot due to change in leg diameter from bottom to 3 1/2" up.
- Rip out hem
- Hand Ernie his pants and thread and tell him he has two choices - find a seamstress or go to his sister and mother!
- Time to pack
- Wait, I need a list
- I have 5 old lists, plus 2 from the Rick Steves site which may or may not be updated
- I combine the lists, with updates like replace cd player with smartphone, replace camera with smartphone, replace ipod with smartphone, replace nook with smartphone...get the idea.
- I now have a great list which only took about 2 hours to compile.
- I'm no longer in the mood to pack.
- I'm going to eat now in preparation for taking friend Cathy out to eat for her birthday. Won't say which birthday.
- Eat delicious dinner with Cathy and her sister Lisa
- Chauffeur them around a little as they have no car while in town
- Drop them off
- Go home and don't pack