Mid-afternoon. You are sitting near Kroger's
on Mason-Montgomery Road waiting for Carol. Kim and the boys are to arrive
about five o'clock then go to supper. Yesterday afternoon you drove to Kim and
Paul's to stay for the night because you had a meeting about the shower glass
door and wall in the master bath. You were there this morning at ten after stop
at Schneider's for an irregular breakfast of donuts and milk on the way to
Swain's [bath and accessories] a few miles south of OSU. When you stopped by
the house this morning they had put the 'cover' on the entire roof and are
working with the actual roofing today. You will be up next Monday for a meeting
with Jim A. your foreman/manager at the house. Kim needs someone to watch
Brennan Tuesday until three as she has a five hour phone/video conference that
day. Once the roof is up, the 'siding' and stone go up, then the windows and
doors, at least that is how you remember it from watching other construction at
the site. Seven or eight houses are now being constructed at this time, up
three from a week ago. You are surprised how fast the small area of about
forty-two lots is filling up. - Amorella
1557 hours. I think there are
only about five to seven empty lots after today's observation. I know it is
going to be somewhat noisier with I-71 about two hundred feet away and down
about fifty feet below our location. However, another house being built about
the same distance away further west is fine with the house almost finished. The
walls, doors and windows, do a good job blocking out the traffic. Otherwise, if
you sit on the porch and in the backyard you are going to hear some of it; the
noise would be worse if we weren't fifty or so feet above the freeway. And, few
kids in the neighborhood as it is designated for fifty-five year olds and
older. Ohio does not make this a law, but the community does not allow child's
playset and swings, etc. in the backyards.
The family had supper at the 'Rocky Chair
Place' off Fields-Ertel Road. Once home you worked in the basement while the
boys watched their Netflix channel. You stopped in time to watch NBC News while
Kim was giving the boys their baths then you three watched 'Rachel Maddow'
before they retired and you are about to.
2226 hours. I found another
box with written material and notes from way back, some back to the sixties. I
saved a little more than an inch high stack from a full file box. Out it went. I
couldn't part with some. Too much emotional value. It wasn't all my writings,
it was also about people I have known in life. I showed some to Kim and said I
cannot do this, and showed her. She suggested I keep it and I said, "Well
then, you can throw it out after I'm gone." She agreed that she could but
she intimated that she might not. It is hard to give up intimate letters from
friends and well wishes from students from long ago. I threw some out and came
others. Why? I assume my heart knows. Certainly no one else does.
Post. - Amorella
2234 hours. Tomorrow we
continue on. It has to be done. Better that Carol and I do it than save it all
for Kim and Paul to do. We save a bit now and then for our own pleasure of
knowing those words are safely kept. It is an obligation to family and friends
and to ourselves. Family stuff is only important to some family. That's the way
it always is. I would never give up Grandma Orndorff's 1916 high school
yearbook or my parents' 1936 high school yearbook. It would be against my
nature to do so.
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