Monday wasn't too manic but was productive

Work was okay yesterday. I was writing up action items from the big report review from Friday and getting those worked towards closure. I hope to finish that all up today. Got done with work and then found the tennis shoes I left here and went for a walk while the boys went agate hunting. We were all on our gravel road but I went West towards the highway and they went East further into farmlands. I managed to get .8mile in at a good pace before trouncing through the back of the property. We are missing the property markers on the NE corner completely and we have the original marker on the NW side. I think the landscapers or the farm folks accidentally took those down but mel will have to confirm. I will call the survey team out to place them again so we can put real posts up on them. Anyhoo, that was me moving my body purposefully for the day and both my Achilles were grumping...not bad but I could tell I was giving them a good proprioception exercise by walking on the soft shoulder of the road.

I then sat down at my wheel for quite a while listening to a podcast while the boys finished their hunt and checked on the tumblers. We had leftovers for dinner and then Mel tried to figure out if we could fix the dishwasher and my searching all of the part websites show that my 26 year old dishwasher doesn't have the parts we need any longer. We had issues with it starting up last time and well, I'm okay replacing it. So we will go to town tonight to pick one out and hopefully get it installed coming up soon. We then headed down to the old kitchen, now the "cat room". Basically when mom and jerry removed the old kitchen in 1999-2000 time frame they just put in these basic cabinets for storage. Its kinda a weird room and has entrances to the oil burner/storage room and the utility room with the water softener and the water heater. But the cabinets were full of things we don't need or had been long since replaced with better items. We did find 4 sandwich/luncheon sets. Not sure why there were 4 different sets but we set one to donate, 2 for Becca to pick from if she wants them, and one we actually liked. We also found highball glasses that are missing a glass but were in good condition and washed up nicely. There was a lot of xmas stuff we just put in the donate pile. We got rid of a huge set of goblets, platters etc. We also found the fancy Noritaki dishes my mom got in 1968. I've loved them they are subtle and sophisticated and she left a not in the box with the history. (crying) She bought it for $49 total from a friend's hubby in the service in Japan who shipped things over. Its a service for 12 with other pieces for serving and an extra few cups. So I need to get the formal storage boxes for those so they are protected but easy to get into.

But it felt good to get to get that room set and I found a few things that were sentimental that I put up in mom's curio cabinet that I had bought her years and year ago when I first started a job in high school.

So we felt very accomplished and than sat with drinks on the porch just after sundown (910pm) and relaxed. Spicy was content to sit by the screen and watch the bugs. It was good and then I helped mel with dishes (stuff from dinner and things we brought up from the basement) and we got everything washed up. I headed to shower and I think I was in bed early but not certain. I do need to get back to finishing my book and not playing on my phone. le sigh

But tonight afterwork I will drive up to Sioux Falls and figure out if what dishwasher I want. I hope mel is coming but we shall see. :)

Also, dojo friend Will O'Mullane made the news with the new telescope . So cool to see the work he's been talking about for years.