Day 976 I can see for miles

Pete and Kelli’s social distance day 28

11th April 2020

I felt exhausted, it had been a busy day, and all I wanted was a hot cup of tea and a sit down.

The day started with a mad scrabble to get the items that were due for collection ready and moved out into the driveway.

I had to fit the top to the large dresser, Kelli was rushing around with a paint brush touching up areas she had missed. It’s not until the garage doors are open when you see the places where you find these.

Halfway though, she found a post for a free entertainment unit in West Olive, that we had to drop everything to collect.

It was a heavy bastard with textured glass doors, one of which was cracked. With great effort we loaded it into the truck and drove home with the glass rattling like a milk float.

As we pulled into the drive, the person with our Aldi order had just pulled up, we could eat again.

The furniture was collected and the money was in the bank.

Kelli managed to sell the Trump chairs to a repeat customer, to be delivered on Friday.

I did some dismantling to the Doctor Who cabinet, I’m sure a simple job will turn into a monster.

Kelli suggested that we replace the old mail box with a new one that we bought months ago.

I had bought a bag of ready mix concrete, not a small one, a bloody eighty pound bag that came with its own hernia cream.

Getting the old one out was a lesson in persistence. I dug down as far as I could, then tried to wiggled it, but it was stuck solid. A bit more digging, and there was slight movement. I put my shoulder under the old mailbox an pushed upwards, to my surprise it started to lift. A bit more effort and it lifted out completely. It had been buried nearly as deep as it was tall, and it was only because the soil was so sandy that I was able to pull it out.

The new one had an aluminium post, which I planned to concrete in.

The mix was ready, Kelli poured, I damped it down, and soon the new post was in position.

Kelli decided to stencil the house number on the side in white spray paint. She only had two sizes, so she chose the largest, now the number can be read by people over the other side of the lake, and also from space.

The sad note of the day was that our box of wine did not arrive, this meant that we had nothing for our penalty game except the remaining cheesecake, not very impressed.