We rose before the sun, heroic and slightly confused. We marched to the office, where we gulped the coffee with a dramatic wheeze. “Perfect,” Mary said, sipping bravery.
Paul opened the email inbox and discovered 147 emails, each apparently urgent since yesterday. We began replying, deleting, and pretending to understand spreadsheets.
Then Grace, the cat, arrived for quality control. She sat on Paul’s keyboard, sent “mmmmmmmm” to Bob Z, and approved three bills with her tail.
Mary offered her a treat, and with great aplomb, Grace gobbled it down!
Mary laughed so hard she snorted coffee. I declared Grace promoted to Chief Meowperations Officer.
We finished our coffee, then got dressed and headed to the doctor’s office, where I had ultrasounds of both the left and right carotid arteries. Right to make sure the operation is still good and the left to see more about the inner carotid blockage. We will know more next week when we return for the reading!
When we got home, Joe was already on his way over to relocate our flagpole from outside the wall—where it had been living its best life in the bushes and mud—to inside the wall on the concrete patio. Brilliant idea!
Now I can raise and lower the flags without wrestling shrubbery, sinking into the garden, or looking like I lost a fight with Mother Nature. Progress!
SO the work commenced with Charlie providing assistance.
We (Joe) drilled through about four inches of concrete.
Hearing protection was required, not because of the sound, but because of the choice of words about the hardness of the concrete.
All was going smoothly until we tried to put the plastic sleeve on the flagpole and discovered it was 1.5 inches too small. Apparently, our flagpole sleeve has been hitting the gym. Dang!
Joe called the flagpole people and arranged for a properly sized sleeve to be sent ASAP. Until then, the pole will be resting dramatically on the front patio, contemplating its future.
Joe and Charlie went home disgusted, Mary continued her nap, and I cleaned the workbench and worked on the Daily Diary!!
I stayed in the garage and attempted to rename the Amazon device called Flagpole. To my amazement, I discovered the electronic plug was malfunctioning, and the flagpole light had been stuck on for a long time. I offered replacement parts which will go into the system tomorrow.
At 5:15 pm, we were ready for dinner and headed to Vitorio’s in Huntington Beach
