The work began today promptly at 7. They started shoveling gravel into the wheel barrows and putting down pipes into the trenches dug along the foundation walls. Libbie is pretty sad this morning. She got a text from Mary that Bill is a lot worse than they originally thought. We don't know what any of that means yet but she is pretty down. The gravel trailer is blocking the driveway so we're not going anywhere this morning. I got the account statement for NC Quick Pass. Libbie took Anne on a wild goose chase to the orlando airport last week and had to use the toll road which cost $1.09 twice. This is a discount over the $1.25 charge.
I went out to RE Michel and picked up the Fan capacitor for the outdoor AC upstairs unit. After I installed it I fired the system up and it happily worked . We don't need it though since the outdoor temp is in the 70s.
It's been a down and sad day, neither of us wanted to fix dinner so we went over to Ruckus Pizza near Costco for dinner around 7 PM. The place was surprisingly crowded. Libbie left her cell phone at home intentionally since she didn't want any bad news while we were having dinner. I had the chicken Parmesan with whole wheat penne, Marinara sauce and a Red Oak beer. Around 9:30 while in the Family Room we got the word that Bill had died. What a sad day. This is even sadder than when a parent dies since parents are much older and expected to die first. Bill was 71. I'm thinking that the last I saw him was shortly after Valentines Day when I brought the security bits back from our Apex trip to disassemble his battery charger. We lent him Libbie's charger and said we could look inside his charger to see if there's a fuse.