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| Birthdays Celebration |
In a couple of weeks Larry and I will be leaving on out Fall camping trip, we will be gone for about two months. Larry's and Louise's birthdays are this month and mine is next month. Louise's job requires her to work weird shifts and scheduling events can be a challenge, she was off this weekend so we decided to celebrate all of our birthdays today at her house in Round Rock. It takes us a bit over an hour to get there. Larry and I decided to get to Round Rock a little early to do a few stops.
Our fist stop of the day was our Credit Union in Round Rock. Larry has a big jar on his dresser where he puts his coin and it was full. Ever since I retired he has noticed that as it fills up it has more quarters. When I was working I would take quarters out so I could buy snacks and soda out of the vending machines at work. When the jar was full it use to hold around $80 but today it had a whopping $170, those quarters made a big difference.
For the last few days I've been writing about the chair project Larry has been working on, he needed more wood filler and glue. Lowe's is located in the same shopping center as the Credit Union so we stopped by, unfortunately they didn't have the items so we ended up going across the freeway to The Home Depot.
In Austin they have a huge electronics store called Fry's Electronics. Larry loves the store and we haven't been there in many years so since we were not far away we stopped by. The store is just as large as it always was but they have remodeled and rearranged things, did a good job of it. They have decreased some stock and added other new things. We were surprised how small the digital camera area had become, they only have a few cameras, years ago they had a couple of rows of cameras. I guess cameras don't sell that well any more considering almost everyone has a smart phone with a camera built in. We didn't buy anything but we had fun just looking at all the items they had.
We arrived at Louise's house around 11:00. I brought a black bean bake for lunch and Louise baked fresh bread, she also had cheese cake and ice cream for dessert.
We received a lot of great gifts, got all kinds of snacks to take along on our trip and Larry got a couple of Man Cards for The Home Depot.
We gave Louise an Amazon Dot (Alexa device) and a couple of switches to go along with it. Larry spent the afternoon getting the it setup and explaining to Louise how to use it. He installed wall plugs for her living room and bedroom lamps so now she can ask Alexa to turn on and off the lamps. He also installed a switch for her dining room light which required us to make a trip to Lowe's to buy a wall plate. While Larry was installing the plugs and switch and replacing the plate I played with Alice, Louise's dog. When we sat down and ate lunch Larry noticed the dining room table was very loose so a bit later in the day he took the table completely apart and tightened all the screws, now it is very stable.
We were at Louise's house until 7:00. We had a great time.
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| Larry and Louise having lunch |
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| Birthday gifts for all of us |
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| Louise waiting to open gifts |
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| Larry opening one of his gifts |
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| Alice watching us opening our gifts |
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| Having fun opening my gifts |
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| Louise opening her gifts |
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| Larry working on Louise's table |
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