"Almost" a red-letter day

The outside is complete except for the workmen picking up some of their equipment and supplies...and for Woody and me painting the porch railings and around the front door (We plan to buy some paint tomorrow and put on our painters' hats!). The handrails got installed today...not easy drilling into brick...but the job got done. The touch-up painting got done inside, but the threshold to the garage is still causing a dilemma...guess he will think on it and come back with a fresh idea on Monday. The carpet installer called today and asked if he could come back on Monday rather than today to put in the transitional metal pieces that go in the doorways to the kitchen and sun porch. So..............."maybe" Monday all will be finished and be the actual red-letter day. I have been working on putting things back where they go today..."maybe" one of these days we will have the house back to normal. I am really pleased with all the work that has been done.

Woody got up early, went to work, worked, walked at lunch, worked some more, then came home to a worker in the house. I left Woody to "supervise," while I went shoe shopping with three of the neighbor grandchildren. It was the 7th traditional trip to our local shoe store to buy a first pair of shoes...little nine-month-old Elijah was the recipient this time. He seemed very accepting of the new foreign objects that were put on his little feet! He is starting to pull up on things and starting to do a bit of cruising around furniture. He seems to be doing this a bit earlier than his siblings...but he does get a lot of encouragement and help from his siblings! When I got back from the shoe shopping jaunt, the workers were gone for the day and Woody had gone for groceries...he made stops at both WalMart and Kroger.

Yesterday evening Woody went to sleep in his recliner sometime between 6 and 6:30pm and finally woke up at 10pm and went straight up to bed and slept the whole night. The unusual thing is that he hadn't taken any pain medicine during any of that time...not even Aleve. When he was sleeping so soundly, even when I was clunking around cleaning up the kitchen, I figured that he had taken some of his pain medicine. But he hadn't...guess he was just really tired. Hopefully those extra hours were just the peaceful kind of sleep that he needed.