18 October 2020
I purchased this house in 1994 and moved in January 1995. I’ll soon start my 27th year in this place, the longest I’ve lived anywhere, anytime. I started thinking of how I divided my chores when I first moved in. On Saturday, I would clean the pool, the pool filter, the pool deck, the patio, and then move on to cleaning the house and washing clothes. It wasn’t unusual for me to mow the yard on Saturday if it didn’t rain.
After a while, the mowing got shifted to Sunday. Then the pool work got shifted to Friday. Now I don’t even mow. My next door neighbor does it for me and I’ve learned to not do yoga, not swim laps in the pool on Sunday.
So, it was with expectation that I anticipated a day off today. Not so. I ended up doing a top to bottom cleaning of the bathroom, the wall paper, the tiles, the grout, the tub, framed pictures, etc. After a quick lunch and a little reading, I put the curtains back up in the living room. I had to order a new rod and bracts for the rod. At least these new curtain items seem pretty substantial. Of course, it was a lot of drilling, screwing, going up and down a step stool, and arranging the curtains after they were hung. That was in addition to cleaning up the mess I made with the drilling and screwing.
The one thing I did notice was my biceps didn’t like the motion of turning a screw driver when I mounted the curtain brackets.
Yesterday was the day I tackled the hallway. I took everything out of the linen closet, washed the walls, cleaned the shelves, and put everything back. Then I did the walls of the hallway. I removed all the pictures (5) and cleaned the frames and the glass and reinstalled. The only thing left is my bedroom and bedroom closet and the guest room and guest room closet. Both will be multiple day jobs!
Next up to to make some more humus for my veggie lunches.
Yesterday, Florida jumped from a little over 2,000 cases to 4, 044 cases. Today, it’s back down to 2,000 plus. It seems someone has plugged the state of Florida into a sine wave generator and the only real difference is the amplitude of the sine wave.
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One of the photographs sent to me by my niece was a monument to the 32nd Infantry of the U.S. Army. That was my Dad’s division in WWII in the Pacific. He ended up as a Captain in that division. The 32nd was made up mostly of people from Michigan and Wisconsin. I’m sure everyone thought my Dad’s southern accent was a little difficult to understand.
They fought in the Papuan campaign, New Guinea, and the Philippines in some of the most fierce fighting of WWII. For a while, in the Papuan campaign, the 32nd under MacArthur was the only action in the Pacific. In the New Guinea campaign, the Buna battle was extreme.
After he retired, he reconnected with a veterans group of the 32nd and on a couple of occasions, former comrades of his came to visit him in Pulaski. I felt he must have had a significant impact on their lives in a time of war that they would want to come visit. They still called him Captain.
I remember one visitor in particular named Schmidt. It seems Schmidt was from the family that makes the famous spice cookies of the holidays. Every year Dad would get a box of those cookies. He always saved some of them for me.
My song recommendation is “The Pacific Boils Over” from the album Victory at Sea conducted by Robert Russell Bennett.
Stay tuned and stay safe!
