Well, here it is a week later and we finally got the new hot water heater. I've been praying for days, that it'd be an easy (and painless) installation. It was. My husband and youngest son went to the hardware store this morning and got it. And yesterday they'd man-handled the old one out of the attic, down the pull-down stairs and out on street. The sanitation department here is wonderful about picking up just about anything you put on the street. Didn't have to wait for them, though, since someone else got it before dark.
A bath later will be WONDERFUL.
Got out a bit by myself this afternoon, which was way overdue. Got some library books and went to the library bookstore too. Found some Faulkners I didn't have and one treasure, a Charlotte Bronte dated around 1897. The book is called The Professor and includes Emma and some poetry. Beautiful book. Three dollars, which you can't beat.
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Going to have a quiet day tomorrow. Have been, as they say, all sixes and sevens, this week. Can't account for it. Reading, yes.
Saturday holds middle daughter's seventeenth birthday, which she wants to be Star Wars themed, and it'll be a fun day. Unfortunately, an old friend of the family, my mom's next door neighbor died yesterday. I'll likely go to his funeral on Saturday afternoon. We took Mom her groceries today, and I was able to see the children of the neighbor. We're about the same age, grew up together and hadn't seen one another in about forty years. Sweet to be called by my nickname (Missy) by folks who knew me ages ago. Very comforting, for some reason.
Anyway, we'll still have a birthday, with a pause in the middle. Had planned on baking her pies for her day, but our oven ignitor is out and I'll have to order the part and fix it. I'm volunteering, since fixing appliances gives me a rush. Stuff breaks, but thankfully we're clever.
Enjoy your Fridays. :)
