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     Monday pm decent post near final, door to door salesman - Warren Buffet's Kirby acquisition revivified - accost, computer crash, lost words.  Second pass.

     Cougar hot springs solstice road trip ready, awake, discover Gertie's front right tire low - brake check hubcap/wheel removal caused degraded valve stem leak.  165/13s - as specified on tag in wagon's glove box - worn to wear bars decide 155/13 - easy on linkage; no horse big, heavy 165s power steering - replace all four.  Young counter guy gives no ground, older gent installing new stemmed, balanced tires agrees: '78 tire sizing more random, specially SR - Gertie's type - designation.  Hour Terwilliger (Cougar) hot springs cream puff drive - straight, smooth, goat like road hold - though tire changer points out rear brake cylinder leak; degraded back brake shoes, front brake hoses: brake job soon. 
      Huge firs (above, much grander live) line half mile reservoir edge car park/hot springs walk.  Clothing optional, photography unwelcome springs - five pools native rock built, rustic log/shake changing lean to over watched - 105 degrees hottest pool soak, cold water douse alternate.  Chat, relax, one/two families, few nymphs, recognizable regulars - only been once before mind you - body: noodle.  Locs into full swing, desire leisurely homeward, depart well sunset prior.

     Underneath Swett Lodge earlier remove center post

circle saw/masonry blade score its unlevel slab to split - one pad here, one under beam house front.  Dig out slab - persuades easier than expected - make no head way breaking, reconsider: level whole slab.   Subtract earth, get slab level; double

block, cement brick cap pillar realize not centered under beam segment - for best results redo entire job move slab/pillar eight inches.  Finalized pillars will have rot resistant treated wood where wood/cement contact.  One more pillar to go!

     Last summer Kate almost single handedly replaced her lake house's extensive

wrap round two sides second floor level deck.  We load Spud's truck with Kate's

lake wants, Lakeside roll.  She's had the place few years now, continues

improvements; current project: bedroom convert two basement rooms.  While Kate attacks drywall; organize, denail slight end rot single short term Swett Lodge use perfect old deck boards behind house woodshed,

under deck ramp stashed.

Boat putter 'bout Ten Mile lake enjoy scenery, homes, sunset.
     Beautiful over boat house morn view, grab broom cobweb/cedar tree fallout

clean porch - Fourth's next weekend!
     Making Kate's taping more difficult, Dennis - RIP - ran phone wire through this under deck phone junction box's bottom; few feet over, through wall; screwed into dangling wall jack in ex work room, bedroom to be; regular phone jack wire through wall into water heater closet; taped/spliced to standard phone house wire; through wall into another closet; through wall into second basement bedroom to be; through ceiling hole into broom closet above; through wall; between drawers; through wall to jack kitchen phone adjacent.  Refine: phone wire through this box's back into water heater closet; into not yet sheet rocked stud space above 'bedroom' door through ceiling into baseboard mount kitchen phone adjacent jack.  No drill bit available, improvise: remove baseboard by phone; long shank phillips screw driver bit 'drill' through floor; commandeer heavy rotisserie spit, hammer drive into screw driver bit pilot hole through ceiling below, through 2x4 stud above door in basement; vice grips twist/remove spit; coat hanger fish phone wire: Kate's taping will look more professional sans various wires through plastered holes.

     Kate comes up tape shy boat town runs.  Perfect temperature sunny ridge top above lake few mile walk affords Kate's Ten Mile lake finger,

wildflower (purple foxglove) views.  All manner thoughts roil hiking mind: remember reading 'A Course In Miracles', info bypassing intellect, directly penetrating subconscious - penning that capably'd be nice, eh?  In the woods here!

      Denail more boards; load truck - long boards first, couple sheets ex basement door plywood, layer short boards across, web strap/ratchet secure; circle saw buck, firewood shed wheelbarrow remainders.

     Brought along Spud's float boat - two inflated pontoons supporting rowing seat - haul down, into boathouse; screw metal hooks into rafters; suspend.  No matter how many times up ramp to house, back down for some forgotten/little something: beautiful day.

     Truck ready; Kate's stove top chicken breast, corn, fridge remainders dinner gobbled; speedy shower to make go to ocean when at the coast date homeward.  Both worked hard, got lots done; as you can see, happy.  Catch ocean sunset, uneventful night time 'back way' drive home - loaded, shun freeway; Florence, Veneta - well under speed limit, excessively long load red bra marked: mishaps unwelcome.

     Saturday morn retrieve truck/load,  Swett Lodge 'lumber yard' sticker/stack - get 'em good 'n dry 'fore using 'em - most raise Swett Lodge lumber needs now on hand.  Deal at Spud's truck premium refill cost.

Procure brake parts, install new back cylinders/shoes.  Finish job next day: install front brake hoses, bleed system.  Tires, brakes good; systems checked; chassis lube, replace final old heater hose will make many miles ready - good thing: summer's here!  Hubbard squash diggin' life; bean, corn replants catching earlier starts (first corn darn near knee high!), tomatoes, watermelon, sweet potatoes (yay!), lemon cucumbers, one armenian cuke healthy.  Turnips, rutabaga, beets tuber - carrots???  Good times!

 Enjoy!