Saturday April 6, 2024

Sunny and bit warmer today with highs in the upper 40’s but still gusty winds at 15 to 20 mph.

Busy day at the store. Half price paperbacks today which we sold a lot of but also a lot of hardbacks as well. We did make over $200.00. Lot of out of town folks plus regulars with family visiting. Store had people in it most of the day rather the usual herd of people followed by dry spells. Kept us busy and thankfully, only one donation as we are still overrun with them from the last two weeks we need to process.

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Friday April 5, 2024

Partly sunny, cold, and windy today with highs in the upper 30’s and 15 to 20 mph wind gusts.

We had a moderately busy day at the store. Did not make $100.00 but still had a good day in sales. Worked on donations in between customers.

Donna is picking me up at 5. We are meeting Jo, Catherine, Linda, and Debra for dinner at Muddy Creek for a change of venue.

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Thursday April 4, 2024

36 degrees this morning and snowing like a blizzard. The ground was too warm for it to stick.

George showed up around 9 to finished hooking up the plumbing under the sink.

After he left I headed for Winston. I had a couple of errands to run before meet the girls from the Firm for lunch at Salt and Sage. It was warm and sunny down the mountain though breezy.

Up here; highs are in the upper 30’s with 20 to 25 mph winds making it feel like the upper 20’s.

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Wednesday April 3, 2024

Rain early this morning and then some off and on showers mid morning. We did not get the storms that had been predicted. The winds have picked up this afternoon with 20 plus mph gusts. Temperatures have been falling all day from upper 60’s down into the 50’s and will continue to drop.

A busy day at the store.  Almost made $100.00.  I had to leave midday to come home and so George could come back and hook up the plumbing under the sink and the feed for the gas cook top. They counter folks only install the counters and put in the sink.

While he worked on that I cleaned the counters then started putting the stuff back. The new sink required a longer pipe and he did not have one. He as to come back to do that and do a couple of other things. No problem, I have been using the sink in the laundry room, which is off the kitchen, for water.

I went back to the store to finished out the day then stopped by the library on the way home to checkout and return some books.

 

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Tuesday April 2, 2024

Sunny and warm today with highs in the mid 70’s but with gusty winds. May get some storms tonight.

Lowe’s contractors are here installing my new sink and counter tops in the kitchen. Finally getting the gas stove top installed in the counter instead of sitting on two by fours. When we ordered the sink, which Bob measured for carefully, we found the hole was a bit too big so we had to come up with a way to support it on top of the counter.

Also, really hate the black counter tops and the ceramic sink. Going with a lighter colored counter and stainless steel sink.

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Monday April 1, 2024

Partly sunny and breezy today with 15 mph gusts.

Had a nice day yesterday. Donna invited Debra and a friend of hers and myself to dinner. Went over mid-afternoon and stayed until about 7. Lots of good food and leftovers for dinner tonight.

Went to the gym this morning. This afternoon have a few things to do around the house plus the first of the month accounting stuff.

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Saturday March 30, 2024

Sunny and breezy today with highs in the upper 60’s. Winds are gusting 20 to 30 mph.

Not as busy at the store today as I thought it would be with it being a holiday weekend. I thought more of our regulars might be in with out of town gusts. We had a good day in sales but did not make over $100.00. Lots of folks in just looking as they were going up and down the street. Most of the sales were visitors from out of town.

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Wednesday March 27, 2024

Mostly sunny and breezy today with highs in the upper 50’s.

A very busy day at the store. We made over $100.00 and had a two huge donations come in. Did not have time to sort and price those being too busy with customers. The boxes went to the back room for me to sort and work on later.

Being the week before Easter we had a lot of visitors in town and in the store. Always nice to to talk with folks and find out where they are visiting from.

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Tuesday March 26, 2024

Cloudy with rain and drizzle all day. Temperatures in the low 40’s.

Went to the gym then the library and grocery store. Only needed the weekly stuff. Otherwise, working on various projects and reading.

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Saturday March 23, 2024

Whew, been a couple of busy days. Weather wise, we had an inch and a half of rain from Friday evening to late this morning. Temperatures dropped this afternoon as the winds have picked up again with 15 to 20 mph gusts dropping lows tonight into the 30’s with a wind chill into the upper 20’s.

We had two good days at the store almost breaking $100.00 yesterday and today. We also had a couple of good donations come in to work on.

Last night Donna, Jo, Catherine and I were at the Cellar. One of our local pottery artisans played some really nice folk song type music. Tonight, Donna and I went back to listen to her friends David and Chris play. They play more country and 70’s type music. One of her friends’ son and daughter-in-law came in later and they joined  us.

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