Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.


We got in to High Springs Sunday evening after a nice family weekend in Jacksonville for Sophie’s baptism. Christy and Christian are making good progress in setting up their house. They already had the armoire we brought them on Friday in use and had set up the china cabinet in their dining area.


The grand animals all were happy to see us. Even P. J. was friendly! Fin brought us his new stuffed drum toy. Colby slept with us the first night and periodically checked to see if we were sleeping comfortably – which we were.


Covering the chairs – our mission on this trip – began in earnest on Monday morning. I was impressed at the way Christy and Penny worked so well together. It took longer to get the chairs covered than we expected. We didn’t finish until Tuesday close to 7 PM. Some of it was just slow going, some was having to undo and redo a section. The up side of this was that we got to spend some good quality time with Christy and Christian. We also got to know High Springs better. I had to make a couple of food runs and of course one run to Home Depot. I must have been enjoying myself because the checkout girl at Home Depot said that I looked happy. She on the other hand looked down so I asked her why. She just had a run in with a very difficult customer. Hopefully I cheered her up.


The finished chairs look good and sit comfortably. They fit nicely into C&C’s house. My camera was already out in the car so I have no pictures.


We headed home around 7 PM with a couple of pieces of furniture on the trailer. When we stopped at the weigh station we were told we didn’t have to stop if we were hauling personal goods – so no more stopping at the weigh stations! We got home around 12;30 AM. We had left Brie home alone for 5 days and when we came in she was initially afraid of us. She warmed to us quickly when she realized who we were.

All we plan to do on Wednesday is relax. We both have sore backs from working on the chair and we have to recover from the long day on Tuesday. The nice thing about being retired is that we can take a down day and it doesn’t matter.