29th November 2019
Black Friday hit Holland but Kelli and I couldn’t give a stuff.
We had to join Kelli’s brother Matt and his wife Brenda at the funeral parlour to go through some of the arrangements. This is when the the term “ Dying trade” really means something. There is this casket or that casket with the super gull wing doors, in metal or the finest wood veneer. At the bottom end there is the cardboard box if you take the Amazon option.
With some tentative arrangements made we set off to do some shopping.
I had to get some wood to replace the table top that didn’t work as well as I wanted.
I also bought a router and a set of cutters to machine an edge to the top.
Kelli dropped me at Harbour Freight, a man’s toy shop. I spent a while looking at what was on offer. There were several different router specs, but also did I want a stand including a router? I was going back and forth trying to decide. I remember reading a review on this which was not favourable, so I put the separate router in my trolly. Then I wandered around the store for ages waiting for Kelli to arrive. There was only so many times a person could walk around the place before I get tagged as a looney just wasting time, which is precisely what I was doing.
Eventually Kelli pulled up, and I then went through the checkout as a normal person would.
We had to meet Matt again, this time at the nursing home to collect the chair we had delivered just a few days before.
We had planned to use the same trolley to transport the chair to the truck, but this time Matt was going to lay on the lower shelf and wave at the residents as I pushed it towards the car park. However that idea went down the toilet when an orderly volunteered to move the chair on a dolly for us.
We took the chair back to the family house and set it back in it’s original position.
There doesn’t seem a desire to move all the reminders out of the house at the moment, maybe closure will come much later.
Another Lifetime to go 