Notes - all in a summer's day /

         Shortly after noon, local time. Again, errands and chores today plus Tim and Carol mowed the south side and Carol the back and north side yards. You trimmed the sections but you have the front to do after the tree people cut the last of the ash trees in your yard this afternoon. - Amorella

         1308 hours. We had a clean the leftovers lunch and we'll have left over Papa John pizza for supper. I wonder if Dead 19 needs a little more before moving on.

         We will tie these chapter nineteen sections together once they are completed as is. It'll work as you'll see. - Amorella

          1521 hours. The last ash tree (ash bored to death) was cut and ground within an hour and forty minutes. We are talking a sixty-five foot tree with a trunk diameter of  34.5 inches. Three pronged main branches at about eighteen feet. They tied a rope, using the man in the bucket apparatus at about forty feet then tied the other end of the rope on the tractor hitch and while Dave cut the trunk at about a foot and a half they slowly tugged the tractor back and the rope taut, then the tree shook slightly at the top, the chainsaw stopped, the tractor pulled slowly and down the tree came between the Hawthorne and the front porch. Splintering like lightning at the top dead branches and the trunk crashed like thunder. The men were proud of themselves. "We know how to cut down trees," said one. The others agreed. They took a cold high test Coke break, then finished grinding and putting the two long pieces of 25 inch diameter trunk on the truck and the tractor on a flatbed trailer behind it, cleaned up the debris from the yard and street and drove off in the truck with the grinder-to-sawdust behind it; another day of work completed. (The other large front tree, the sixty-footer, was 28 inches in diameter where cut near the base.) It was cool and awesome to watch. I'll water the front flattened grass once it's shady and I plan mow in the morning or as soon as the blades straighten as they did the last time the men-who-cut-trees were here. (1539)

         You are at Kroger's on Kings Mill Road after stopping at McD's for dollar Cokes and a McDouble. Lots of traffic. Bad timing at McD's in that it was a twenty-minute wait in carryout line. One problem as you see it is that longer SUV and personal trucks are the length of a car and a half so a double line is not in sync as far as length goes. - Amorella

         What is Brothers 19 about? (1733)

         Check what you have in the original. - Amorella

         I haven't done that for a while. Actually, I forgot about it. -- Brothers 19 is 1408 words in length.. Part of it is chess though.

         Delete the chess part and we'll work with what's left. - Amorella

         Late dusk. Earlier you and Carol had left over Papa John pizza for supper and watched last night's third episode of a new TNT summer detective show, "King and Maxwell". You both are enjoying the development of the characters and the pace of the series so far. Then at Carol's insistence, you and she finished mowing the front yard about half an hour ago.

         2141 hours. Dusk is gone by now but we took a pleasant drive uptown  (sunroof back and windows open) and around the block (Mason-Montgomery Road to U.S. Route 42 down to Tylersville, then Tylersville back to Mason-Montgomery and home to the Lakeside subdivision across from the relatively new Mason Municipal Building and nearby Mason High School. It has been a very pleasant summer evening.

         All for tonight, boy. Post. - Amorella