Tuesday 6-27 Guess what we did today?

What did we do today?

We woke up to partly blue skies and no rain or wind. We hadn't been to the lake since Louise came out last month so we decided to go. When we arrived at the lake at 9:00 the water was like glass. We launched the boat and Larry parked the truck and trailer. There were only two other trailers in the parking lot. I picked Larry up at the dock and slowly went to the other side of the lake. Larry thought about water skiing but decided to begin by wake surfing, next up was the wake board and finally we did a bit of flying on the Air Chair. After all that we relaxed by floating in the lake and then we headed back to the ramp and put the boat on the trailer. Once Larry pulled the boat up the ramp we wiped it down. We wipe it down every time we use it. We had a very peaceful day at Belton Lake.

Boating on Belton Lake

While I was cranking the boat trailer jack up it was stiff and Larry said jokingly "Are you wimping?" I laughed and said no the jack was tightening up. We got the jack high enough to get it off the hatch on the truck. Larry put the truck in the garage and then took off the cover of the gear box of the jack. He lubed it up and played with it. He discovered that the gears were worn out but we can still use the jack. We went inside and Larry did some research on the jack considering it was specially made for our boat trailer. He found they don't make it any more but he found a couple jacks that should work with a bit of modification. One was at Harbor Freight Tools and the other one was at Tractor Supply.

Yesterday, when I was getting ready to barbecue I opened a drawer where I have the barbecue utensils and found ants, I took everything out of the drawer and Larry treated the cabinet and I treated the drawer. We thought we got rid of them but we didn't. I opened the drawer today to get something and the ants were back so Larry treated the drawer once again. Then he went outside and sprayed around the whole house for ants and other bugs. 

Treating the side of the house for bugs

Treating the garage doors for bugs

Treating the gravel for bugs

When he finished he got ready to go to town. While he was getting ready I put a cooler together. We went to Harbor Freight Tools to get the jack but we were out of luck they didn't have any in stock. The guy who was helping us told us that they had a truck coming in tomorrow and they had seven of the jacks on order. The truck would be there at noon and everything would be counted and stocked by 5:00. Larry asked him to check inventory at the Harbor Freight Tools in Killeen. He found that they had seven at the store. Larry wanted to make sure he could get one just in case they weren't on the truck tomorrow. We thanked the guy and left. We thought about going to Killeen but it was 50 miles round trip so we headed back to the house. Before going home we stopped at Walmart and filled up the car with gas.

Earlier in the day the mailman had delivered a package containing a small amplifier Larry had ordered, he hopes to use it at Allemande Hall so people can hear the tapes better when we dance to them. When we got back home Larry played with his new toy, it works great. While he was playing I worked on my puzzle.

The puzzle after Larry and I worked on it all day yesterday

The puzzle after today

For dinner I made corn on the cob and Cowboy Burgers. After dinner we watched YouTube videos and last week's episode of The Tunnel. Then we watched an episode of POV called Dayla's Other Country. It was about a young girl from Syria and how she adjusts to life in the United States after her parents separate. It was very good. We had an awesome day.