Monday night

Today I cleaned Arbert's house, stripped a floor there..and was too tired to do more...I came home and worked on caulking garden windows...that foam insulation stuff in a spray can disintegrates big time..use good caulk instead...I sent my 3rd son's stuff to his mother-in-law's house to be stored now...we hauled a table and metal rack thing to a neighbor's house who asked for them..we went out to dinner with a 2 for one price coupon at Home Town Buffet...because I won't be here for our date this week...tomorrow after I clean Debby's house I fly to Sacramento to grandmother 3 grandsons {and to meet the newest grandchild.}until Saturday night. I am looking forward to spending time with my eldest daughter !
We have not heard from the Realtors who are supposed to give us their proposals so we can tell which one we want to our relocation consultant ....so we can finally get this house listed...Dadu may have to be out of town this week too because of OSHA "harassment"..........I may live here alone for awhile trying to keep it all together. Eddie picked up his stuff from my house today and took my mom's Big ladders back to her for me !! For his birthday present he wants me to go far away. I guess he doesn't like me anymore. Sad.

GRANDBABY # 11 ARRIVED THIS MORNING IN SACRAMENTO!! My eldest daughter has a new baby boy 7lb.9oz 20 and1/2 inches. He is coombs positive..her blood is 0+...his is
A- . I get to go see them Sept. 1 thru 5. Today I have been de-cluttering and sorting stuff to get rid of ...when you have lived somewhere 23 years, it piles up !!

Hello World...my house will be all painted outside tomorrow morning !!! I just have to cut in the last wall and paint the trim around the garage door...ta da....drum roll....
We had to stop early Saturday for Evan's court of honor for Eagle scout with dinner and pool party at their home after.
We will be listing the house for sale this week...pray for a good buyer !! Dadu has to be working full time in San Diego as of Sept. 28th.
Today in church there was a talk with the best analogy..We wrap our precious things carefully if we are moving ...so they are protected and don't get damaged in any way with the bumps and shifting involved......attending our meeting, obeying the commandments, and doing what our leaders say is like the bubble wrap that protects on a precarious journey...if you remove some of the bubble wrap you are more vulnerable to be broken or destroyed before you reach the final destination...Please loved ones...do what you should to be protected..we love you !!!

Hello from San Diego..Tuesday evening I joined Dadu here..I left the house prep and priming unfinished by ALOT....we have heard from the relocation people and the Realtors in Chino are already bugging us and we are not ready to show it yet !! Ramona is looking like a city of choice...quite rural and 10 miles up a winding hill........we shall see..Mira Mesa looked like sardines ville...packed that close...Poway is really really big and strung out...We are already pre approved .................until later....

SO...B. is working in San Diego all this week and Oakland/Sacramento all the next week...Our house painter quit after a decent start,[ He had never dealt with dry rot or termite damage] .I do not have the luxury of quitting ...It has to be done..and hiring someone now would be dumb....so I may just as well keep going....B. and I replaced about 5 boards on front of the house ...dry rot and old termite damaged...We cut out a mid section of a 2x4..about 12 inches..angled down...I had to figure out how to replace a piece in there..4 tries later it is done...the fourth time I decided to forget math and angles and try must make a template like for quilting..and that worked.....It is quite HOT...so I can just work mornings as I can...I have alot of caulking and scraping still...and sweeping which seems to get off more actual dirt and cobwebs than the pressure washing did...I have hired a neighbor...and middle aged Filipino woman to help starting tomorrow...Having a great time...wish you were here !!................meanwhile a 40 year old neighbor I visit teach is in the hospital after very major back surgery, with a paralysis scare...my mother in law is in another hospital with a seriously broken leg...we have been visiting them in our "spare" time... meantime my granddaughter who lives here wonders what my problem is ,I am not playing with her enough !!! I heard a GREAT line today in a prayer......Help us meet our challenges HEAD ON !!! I agree ~!!!