One of the first things I saw this
morning was a coyote in the front yard.
Around 10:30 a.m. Doc and I headed
for the Pomona house. He stopped
for a coffee where I collected a penny.
(Coin #1).
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| Ready for Donating |
We had left Pippy overnight at the
Pomona house. In all of her 19+
years that was the first time she had ever slept in our garage.
Doc and I spent an hour together in
packing up some of the remaining items in the living room. We gathered a load for the thrift store
which Doc then transported.
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At 12:45 I left and picked up my
mom for her oral surgery. All went
well and I even got a chance to share Penny Finding and a Penny Card with the receptionist when she inquired about my Penny Pendant. By 3:30 Mom and I were out of
there. We stopped at a pharmacy to
get her prescription filled. I was being extra careful NOT to look for coins. I did not want her to think that Penny
Finding was more important than paying attention to her. It was difficult not to glance around
the store, but I was being really good about it … until the last minute. As we were exiting the store there were
4 shiny pennies about 8 ft. to my left and I just had to pick them up. (Coins #2-5).
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| Oak Stair Treads |
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I took mom to her home. She plopped into a chair in her carport
and told me to leave. I told her I
could not because I signed the Doctor’s paper saying I would stay with her for
at least the first 6 hours and that she was supposed to be watched for the
first 24 hours. She would not go
in the house until I left. So we
sat there for a few hours. Neither
one of us was going to back down.
Finally an Angel Neighbor came over and agreed to take mom to her house
until bedtime. Then she would make
sure mom got home safely. We would
call and check things in the morning.
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| Inspector Norman |
By the time I got home this evening
I was wiped out. I did a few
chores and was ready to write Penny Tales and then sleep. Doc had other ideas …
At 8 p.m. Doc stated that we were
going to undertake those staircase treads! Uggh. He said
it wouldn’t be difficult.
“Difficult” is a relative term and I had just had enough “relative
terms” all day! Putting on oak stair treads seemed difficult to me at that
point. However, Doc does not often
get highly motivated on his own, so when he does, it is prudent for me to “ride
the wave”.
By 9:30 we only had two of the
twelve oak steps in place. At that
rate it would be another 7.5 hours until we finished! But we got faster and faster. Steps #9 & 10 were “Quickies”. When we got to steps #11 & 12 we had a good laugh when
realized those would take considerably longer due to the needed “Floor
Play”. After much screwing around
(7 screws on each tread) we finally had all 12 stair treads in place. I was satisfied and exhausted. I fell asleep for a few minutes on the
floor in the middle of all the sawdust and mess.
Total: 5 Pennies
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