I tried, really tried, to get a nap this afternoon, but there were just too many interruptions. Kids running around, telephones ringing, cats meowing in my face. I finally gave up and went downstairs and into the garage to finish the project we'd started so long ago. The Solar Clothes Dryer.
It really wasn't that difficult, simply a matter of taking the 2x4 and mounting it to the back of the house. I'd already put the mounting bolts in place, the bolts that hold the actual spring-loaded dryer line case onto the 2x4, so all that was necessary, was putting a bizillion screws through the board into the house. I hope they actually got hold of some wood or something inside the house. I'd hate for it to pull off the wall the first time we load down the lines with a ton of wet jeans.
After the 2x4 was mounted, then the dryer case goes on. Simple.
The dryer case contains five lines on a spring-loaded roller. They're attached to a metal bar which pulls out and is then attached to the pole at the other end.
There's a metal bracket on the roller bar which attaches to another bracket mounted on the pole. It's a simple operation to pull the bar up and onto the bracket, and voila! the clothes dryer is up and ready to load.Naturally, it was all ready to go, and a storm started rolling in.
Friday Night
Oh, but you had asked about Friday night.
Well, we'd promised Adam that we'd have a game night, so we were planning on doing some card games around the table, but it ended up being just the kids playing euchre because, frankly, I just don't get that game. It's too complicated for my feeble brain. So we (the parents) contented ourselves with just watching the kids play. Then after they'd played a couple rounds, the girls got bored and decided to move on to something else.
Leaving me and the boys. And we were going to play Settlers of Catan. (Note that we had an extra boy, James's best friend, who was spending the night, so there were enough players.)
Interestingly enough, even though we had a good game and actually completed it, the boys seemed to have a few ... distractions. Guitars. Adam and James. I couldn't tell if they were trying to play with each other, or against each other. If it was supposed to be some kind of harmony thing, they need more work.
James got hold of some tune and just wailed on it. It was interesting to watch him play his old 3/4 Martin instead of the electric, or his bass. It used to fit him like a glove, and now that he's much bigger, it looks almost like a ukelele in his hands.Adam was playing Cheryl's old classical guitar, the one I used to play at her house when we were dating. That brought back a lot of memories! And he's worked out some pretty cool tunes. He likes to pick out melodies from Queen, Led Zeppelin, etc.
At one point, he must've hit a really cool chord. The look on his face was amazing!
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