Day 969 Far out

Pete and Kelli’s social distance day 21

4th April 2020

It was going to be a yard day for both of us, unfortunately it was a bit wet from overnight rain, so we decided to work on other things.

I started on the new drawer fronts, my sleep had been dominated by how I was going to make them, so it would ease my sleeping to get started.

I had some timber that Kelli had acquired as part of shop fittings that were going to get thrown away. First I had to knock it apart to get the material I needed.

I was well into the machining when Kelli burst in and said she had found a free cabinet in Allendale, and she wanted to get it straight away.

I put my work coat aside and volunteered my muscles.

Just as well as the piece was a glass display cabinet, nearly seven feet tall and painted silver, it looked like a prop from Doctor Who.

We struggled to get it into the truck, pushing the seats so far forward my chin was resting on the dashboard. We also combined the trip with picking up four chairs that Kelli wanted. They were a Shaker-style, which I liked, so there was no resistance from me.

The two sellers were from two different spheres of society, one a trailer park (mobile homes) and the other a well-to-do area, we don’t care, we’ll take from anyone.

I had two orders at Lowes to collect which on the same route, I would then have materials to work on even more gardening projects.

Kelli had a spat with one of her friends on Facebook. It started off in an innocent way talking about kindness to store workers and then veered off in many directions, totally unrelated and leaving her confused and annoyed. It ended with a blocking both on Facebook and her phone.

This is my main criticism of social networks, many simple things get out of control, because there is no opportunity for mediation. I could not run my life without a face to face interaction, I would rather call someone a prat with a smile on my face than to write it, and start an argument.