7-21 Getting Ready For Our Weekend Trip

Weekend Trip

In the morning Larry installed the air bag gauges on the Minnie. Larry usually starts a project and finishes it in a day or two but this time he did it in intervals. First he designed what he wanted, then he started the project by building a plate for the air gauges. He used an old piece of aluminum he had laying around, he cut it the size he wanted, bent up a side and drilled holes for mounting and to hold the gauges in place. Using this he tested that everything would work the way he wanted and then he ordered all the pieces he would need. Once the gauges, air connectors and aluminum piece arrived he went to work on the final project. When he finished building the plate and assembling the gauges on it he waited for us to get the Minnie to install them. Yesterday we brought the Minnie home and this morning he installed the plate. It worked perfect and looks super.

Making the plate for the air gauges

The finished product

Drilling holes in the Minnie to install the new plate

What it looks like when Larry finished

The next thing we did this morning was take Flo for a swim at Nolan Creek. We took her a little later than usual because we had a package that was going to be delivered to the UPS Store. There were a lot of people there today, families were swimming, floating down the creek on tubes and fishing on the banks. Some kids had big tubes, one looked like a swan. A couple of weeks ago when we were walking around I found a bag with a small tackle kit, I had put it in the car so today I gave it to a family that was fishing. One of the boys was very excited to see what I gave to his dad. A little while later I noticed the little boy that was so excited was in charge of carrying it. Flo did a lot of sniffing, eating grass and swimming. We had a super time. On the way home we stopped by and picked up our packages and mail at the UPS Store.

Square Dancing with friends

Passing Thru

Waiting for the next call

Wendell checking the tempo

In the afternoon we were busy getting the Minnie ready for our weekend trip. I loaded it up with clothing and food. I did laundry, cooked bacon and made a noodle casserole to take with us. I kept myself busy all afternoon. Larry finished reading another book. After dinner we met up with Louis and went to the TIPS Ice Cream Social Dance. There were enough people for two squares and Wendell Moore called the dance. They had three different flavors of home made ice cream (chocolate, vanilla and peach). Louis baked a cobbler, I took a bag of Mother's Taffy cookies and Patrica baked some homemade wedding cookies. Everything was delicious and we had a great evening.