Saturday 1-25 Doing This and That

Doing this and that

We had a busy day. After being in the Rio Grande Valley for a month we had a few things to do when we got back.

We woke up to a chilly morning. We went to town and did a few errands. The first stop was the UPS Store to pick up our mail. Next stop was the Post Office to pick up the rest of our mail and to restart our mail delivery. The final stop was O'Reilly Auto Parts to pick up some clips for the car. 

Yesterday, when we were loading the car on the dolly I forgot to lock the ramps in place and the front plastic piece under the bumper got caught on the dolly. Larry was able to reattach it but it was not going to stay. This morning Larry reinstalled a clip in the plastic piece but it still was not sitting correctly. After getting home from doing errands he drilled another hole in the the piece and installed a new clip. Now the piece is back in place.

The next project Larry worked on was on the car dolly. He lubed up the strap mechanisms and greased the articulating parts.

Once that was done we used the truck to take the dolly back to storage.

Car Project

Car Dolly Project

While Larry was doing his projects I unloaded the Minnie. Then I swept the Minnie out. Later on in the afternoon I started doing laundry.

Doing laundry

Do you remember the snowman yard decoration we got for Christmas? Before we left for The Valley we put it in the garage. We decided to keep it but we needed to store it in the attic. It would not fit without being partially disassembled but all the lights were wired permanently which prevented you from taking it apart. Larry cut the wiring at the arms and soldered in a couple of plugs so we can remove the arms, with the arms removed it went into the attic.

After doing our projects we watched some of the YouTube videos we follow.

In the evening we streamed a movie called Sweet Land and a documentary called Sled Dog Soldiers. Sweet Land was a very slow moving movie that took place in 1920. It was about a German national, Inge, who came from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to a Norwegian farmer and the problems that occurred. The Sled Dog Soldiers was a documentary about two French Army officers who went to Alaska to get 450 sled dogs to take from Alaska to France. The dogs were to help fight World War I. It was very interesting. Then I finished a few episodes of Bones.

Relaxing in front of the television