Tuesday, April 9, 2024 We meandered our way out of Indianapolis. We stopped for Chai ( not me. I just waited). We unsuccessfully looked in several places for XXX root beer. Benjamin and I split a cheese steak and a French dip from Capriottis (used to be in Madison – Benjin was happy to find […]
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Monday, April 8, 2024 Benjamin suggested we join him and Sean in going to Indianapolis to see the eclipse. I wasn’t too interested, but after I thought about it, I remembered when your son says come and do a thing with us, it is a really good idea to go do a thing. It was
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Sunday, April 7, 2024 I checked into a hotel by myself for the first time ever. OoOoOO! Exciting! Benjamin, Sean, and I left Madison at 2:30. We stopped somewhere in Chicagoland at an Asian shopping area. I enjoyed looking around while TB and TS made small snack purchases. We zoomed into Indiana. After not too
Saturday, April 6, 2024 Benjamin, Sean, and mostly Keith worked really hard on the tiling today. There were lots of trips to the DIY stores. At 9:30 Keith thought he could cut some more tiles for tomorrow, then realized he couldn’t because he was just too tired. Fair! So we had dinner and watched Ghosts.
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Friday, April 5, 2024 We should be in Alabama. Or at least that was the original plan. The North American Brass Band Association has their annual convention/competition there this weekend and we have been planning to go. When we were ready in January to buy plane tickets, Keith stopped at the last minute and said
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Thursday, April 4, 2024 Putting the green tiles up went…better… today. Better, but not great. It was still slow going. The saw blade gave out less than halfway through. It wasn’t a big deal to run out and buy a new one and install it, but every little delay is a delay. Keith spent 12
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024 Sean painted the bathroom today. Keith was delighted to hand off a job. He started working on the tile on the back wall and it did not go well at first. The tile is 2″x8″ and the idea is to install it vertically. Keith researched the best mortar for installing vertical
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 Keith put in a new light over the shower and grouted the floor. Yay! It snowed big, wet, heavy snows. Benjamin was in charge of ordering at the Dumpling Haus. We had so much food. We ate so much food. We watched five episodes of Ghosts! It was a fine day.
Monday, April 1, 2024 Keith had an extra long work working day. He scraped out extra mortar between the tiles in preparation for grouting. We took a dinner break to have BBQ spaghetti (equal parts BBQ sauce and spaghetti sauce mixed with pulled smoked meat over spaghetti. Sounds weird, doesn’t it? It’s not. It’s great).
Sunday, March 31, 2024 Happy 30th birthday to my niece, Liz! We had a wonderful meal and visit with both of Keith’s sisters and their families today. We were only a little late because Keith was cutting tile. He went back early and tiled the shower floor! Things are getting exciting 🙂