On many days things seem to run
behind schedule. Today things ran
ahead of schedule! It was really
nice how things ‘clicked’. There
were dozens and dozens of good things.
It would take pages to list them.
I had less than four hours sleep
when the alarm when off this morning, and was really not prepared to begin this
marathon day.
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| Rain Gutter Guys |
I was expecting the gutter guys to
come over later today after they completed their job across the street. They were knocking at the door around 8
a.m. They were here to add an
additional length of gutter in front and tie that in with the drain system.
At 8:40 Maribel arrived for her
housecleaning session. Her four
hours every other week barely makes a dent in the cleaning needed, but every
bit helps. I asked her today if
she would work the Open House days, so you’ll get to meet her when you visit.
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By 9:20 I was at the paper supply
company to get border paper for the Engineering Potluck. My strategy is this: Doc will be motivated to help fix up
the house for his department’s annual potluck which he agreed a year ago to host.. I have planned MY Open House for the
week after that - October 13th & 14th.
At 9:40 I was at the Pomona house
to add bleach to the ponds. By 10
a.m. I was at Mom’s house to take her to the Doctor for her fractured
knee. Things went really quickly
at the Ortho Clinic. The doctor
said she had made remarkable progress in the two weeks and no longer needed to
wear the brace. She had
‘graduated’. Mom wanted to go to
the post office, hardware store and lunch. We were running ahead of my planned schedule, so I
chauffeured her. My next stop was
at the party supply store to get place cards for the upcoming wedding.
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Just as I was getting into the
truck, Graphic Designer Chaz called to say he had made the edits to the Open
House program. (Which I submitted
to him at midnight last night).
That was motivating. He
said he needed a photo of the Penny Palace with better lighting than the photos
I took yesterday. I promised to
try and take one if I got home in time tonight.
There was an accident on the
freeway and temperatures were over 100 degrees, so by the time I arrive at my
1:30 meeting in Pasadena I was dripping and tense. I met with Drapery Brian at
the store. He only had 1.5 hours
to work, so we needed to put it in high gear. He LOVED the fabric Doc and I had found. When I showed him the placemats I had
also discovered, everything seemed to be falling into place. He very much appreciated that I had
spreadsheets, lists, etc. all prepared. (That was why I was working until 3 a.m.
last night).
The fabric Drapery Brian had chosen
for the TV room would have scored 80% if I were grading it. The one or two I found at the other
store would rate 90-92% and I was prepared to order one of those. Once when Brian walked away, I hopped
up to look around the store. Found
a fabric which I would give a 95-96%
Yipee! We are now maybe
half way to finalizing things.
I was planning to go three more
places when Doc called. The
electricians were at the house to take care of some of the little glitches. I have been trying to get them out to
the house for the past three months!
I needed to rush home and pull out my list of fix its for them.
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There was a magical photo shoot
here. See Special Story
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By 6:30
I was exhausted. Realized that I
had not found any coins today!
Rats! Needed to head out
again. Doc teasingly said, “the
car wash paid well yesterday, maybe we should go there again.” Doubting Tina said, “Those 25 coins we
found yesterday had probably accumulated over several months and we scoured the
area pretty thoroughly. We might find one or two coins and that would be enough
for me ‘cause I don’t want to spend much time searching. Plus I just want to write a short Tale
tonight.
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| Coin Gobbling |
For the
first few moments as I walked around the closed car wash, I didn’t’ spot any
coins. Then the sun glistened on a
penny, then another, then another, then another … I looked in the dirt planter
and spotted several more pennies.
They had been there quite a while. How could we have missed them last
night? Doc came over and began
picking up coins as well. He found
a nickel and two unrecognizable coins.
We collected 42 coins there!!!!!!
(Coins #1-42) Coin Mine!
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| What a Haul! |
As I
walked down the driveway at the Jacks fast food, penny after penny kept
appearing. The sun was glowing on
them and it seemed as if they were leading me somewhere. Eight pennies there. (Coins
#43-50)
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| Rainbow Dime |
Doc had
found a quarter and three pennies earlier in his day when he went for morning
coffee and then his lunch. (Doc #1
- 4). So to get a Hit for the
Cycle, we were just missing a dime.
I think Doc is beginning to BELIEVE in this hocus pocus. He started saying out loud: Dime, dime, dime, dime …. We walked
over toward the van and the 7-11 store.
See Photo. I found that dime
-- under a Rainbow! Plus a second
dime and two pennies moments later inside the store. (Coins #51-54).
Today was happening to me so
quickly, I forgot to take photos (except for that Magical hour). You’ll just
need to use your imagination.
Total: 58 Coins P (52), N (1), D (2), Q
(1) = $1.02 + 2 Chuck E Cheese’s tokens
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