I sold both the steel shelves in the Living Room and the chrome wire shelf in my office today on Craigslist. I listed both sets of shelves yesterday and today they were picked up. This cleared walls in both rooms. Libbie started painting the trim in my office while i worked at cleaning out the desk. By the end of the day I had the desk completely emptied out and removed the legs then slid the desk out to Libbie's office where it will remain for a few months while my Office is refurbished. Late in the afternoon UPS delivered the unwanted floor padding. I can't believe anyone would buy $89 worth of padding and pay $55 to have it shipped. What stupidity. I returned the padding to Home Depot and got full credit including the shipping. Dinner was bread rounds with cheddar cheese and tomato on top. Also on my accomplishment list today was the New Introductions. I found 13 of the 14 new intros, framed and fixed the backgrounds then created thumbnails and posted them in a subdomain on AVSA.org
After a dinner of bread rounds toasted with cheese and tomato we went out to the dance party at 8 PM. The usual crowd was there. We met a woman who is living in the basement of the tuumblins old house, Rita. Seh lives in Jupiter, FL but comes once a month to stay at her daughter's house visiting her grandchild. The daughter is a PHD in nutrition in Chapel Hill. After dance we went to Spirits with the Kretchmans and Cains. Libbie and I split loaded Nachos with a beer.

Today's goal was to get the chrome shelves cleared and moved out of the office. I spent time going through the folders and boxes full of CDs. I threw out many folders of old CDs that were Warez and some ImagDb backups. In the old days I backed up to CD/DVD. The new way is to back up onto hard drive. In the morning Libbie and I went to Durham on the 540 toll road to pick up the flooring and the padding. While in the store we also picked up a Palm Tree and a huge container of Mop and Glow. The Durham store flooring guy was great. He checked all our stuff out at his desk but we still had to take his papers to the courtesy desk to use my card and my coupon to pay for it all. We took the toll road back home because it was so easy then unloaded the car into the Living Room. I continued working on clearing the shelves after unloading the car. At the end of the day I moved the chrome shelves downstairs with Libbie's help. I then photographed all 3 sets of shelves, my chrome wire shelves and the steel shelves, and listed them all for a low price, $25 each for the steel and $40 for the chrome wire ones. We were both tired from all the work today so we ordered takeout, the Szechuan 3 meat dish, from China Chef next to Kroger. We had rice, the three meat dish, eggrolls and a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon for dinner. Bad news tonight was I got a tracking order from Home Depot for the canceled order. I called and they said only half of the order was canceled. Home Depot flooring in Apex is stupid.

Today is a recovery day. I started working on the horticulture pictures, locating the selections, labeling all the pictures and cleaning up backgrounds. This is a lot of work for 81 selections, Way too many for this effort. I also started clearing the chrome shelves some more. There is too much of everything. We canceled our dance lesson for today and worked straight through the afternoon. My goal is to post the thumbnails on the website tonight. I have a long way to go. I tried to buy the flooring at Home Depot but Apex totally screwed up the ordering. The guy used the online ordering instead of store ordering. He had the pads sent to my home for a $55 delivery fee and did not add the promo code I had on the postcard. I went back and had him cancel the whole thing. I found the flooring in stock in Durham. I will go there and get the floor and padding. Dinner tonight was spaghetti with cheese and tomato slices.

Out the door at 4:30 AM as planned. There was a light rain falling as we drove to the airport. We breezed through check in and TSA. Libbie and i split a cranberry-orange scone at Starbucks and got a small coffee each. Flights were on time as usual but the flights were pretty bumpy due to rain showers up and down the East Coast. We got the exit row both times. Woo Hoo. More good news was that McDonalds was open again in Baltimore after being closed on the way up to Providence. It looks like they refurbished the counter with a new one and installed a McCafe stand as well. It was great to have a bacon-egg and cheese biscuit again. They know how to make the correctly unlike the awful Arby breakfast of a few days ago. We picked up our car quickly and got home before noon. Our mail was waiting for us in the box, the unknown box on the front porch was a Sonos speaker for the Sewing Room. Once home we emptied the suitcases, had lunch and did groceries and visited the produce stand.
This gave us our dinner for tonight which was corn on the cob and open cheese and tomato toast. This is a favorite from childhood.
During the day I talked with Dave Kesler about the First Class for Mac program and then chatted a bit about implementing the membership site using a dump from Imis which will be FTP'd into Drupal.
I did some Clarinet practice today which was outstanding. My fingers are doing better at finding the keys for the transition from A to B.

After breakfast this morning we drove down to the Rail Station for our 8:30 rail express ride. We were a little early so we stopped at Dinkin Donuts for a small black coffee and a glazed donut. We checked in at 8:15 and were surprised to see around 40 people there. A medical group from Fall River were having a group outing today. We launched promptly at 8:30 after some safety talk from Trey our rail guide. Pedaling was surprisingly easy. Once the car was rolling along there was no effort to keep it moving. We had lots of fun doing this as we clicked and clacked down the track. The ride along the bay was scenic as we crossed a few rail crossings that had cars traveling the road crossings. One crossing had a live person, a second crossing was an automatic one with flashing lights and clanging bell. We were each a few hundred feet apart. We stopped 3 miles down the track to rest on chairs and benches while the staff turned the carts around using a hydraulic mechanism. We seemed to get back faster than going down. The whole thing took just under 2 hours and was a lot of fun.
Next stop was the bank to drop off a signature card then we stopped at the apt to download pics a little before going over to Brookdale for lunch at noon.
Lunch was another birthday celebration. The entire staff came out to sing happy birthday while they brought out a cake with candles. George blew them all out pretty well. He's amazingly in great physical shape. After lunch we went back to the apt to rest before the 5 PM dinner again at Brookdale. I had the seafood salad and a cranapple crisp for dessert. Libbie said this was their worst effort to date. I lucked out with the seafood salad. It was actually good. After dinner we were going to go to Barb's but she couldn;t move so she called us off. She's not in great shape.
Back at the apt we walked to the waterfront and watched the sunset for a while before gooing back to pack.

This morning we watched some of the CBS Morning News then went over to pick up George for the ride to Barbara's at around 9:45. The Brunch was catered by Foodworks and was excellent. It consisted of eggs, bacon, potatoes, sausage and coffee. I really liked the sausage. It was a nice time. Heather was able to come up with the Mary Ellen Condon pictures on Bill's computer. I had my Flash drive in my wallet so she put the directory on there. This really worked well. When i got back to the condo i uploaded the photos to Traviata into imageDB.
After we dropped George off we went to the Topiary Garden. The accepted our Selby recipricol membership so we got in free. The gardens were spectacular. There were so many blooming things at every turn of the path. We sat and enjoyed the Monarchs and the flowers. We next went over to the vegetable garden and admired the bountiful harvest. Remarkably there are no deer or other critters to spoil the garden. This wouldn't last in our garden without deer fencing.
Around 6 PM we went out for dinner to the Lobster Pot in Bristol. We had an outdoor table on the patio under the awning. We enjoyed a glass of wine and I ordered a Seafood Casserole which was a baked dish containing shrimp, lobster, scallops, clams and other goodies. It had quite a bit of bread topping but it was yummy. After dinner we went over to Barb's house and joined Sue and Bruce for wine and conversation. It was a nice end to the evening.

After cereal and coffee in our AirBnB we tried to locate a tripod. I brought one but it was missing the adapter between the camera and the tripod. Libbie supplied 2 hair berets that look like they will be stable enough. Heather and Corrie could not find Bill's tripod. Nobody is sure of where it is. It could be at Heather's or under some piles in the garage or just about anywhere. It's not with his camera stuff. We'll do the best with the hair berets. We picked up George at 11:15 and got to the Lobster Pot a little early so George wanted to ride through Colts State Park which is a trip down memory lane for him. This killed enough time so that we arrived at the restaurant at 11:45. The meal was unbelievably good. We started with Mimosas then had a Lobster Bisque. With dinner we had Lobster Roll which came with French Fries. Then there was the birthday cake with all the traditional birthday songs. After cake and coffee i set the tripod up, moved the tables while Libbie arranged people in the corner for a large group shot. We then did many family groupings before it was time to leave. Sue presented the birthday gift which was a year of Cox Cable and Mary presented the Family album she created on Shutterfly. She also ordered an album for each of the siblings and gave them out. Very nice!
When we got back I downloaded the pictures and then uploaded them to Google and sent a link to the family. Around 6:30 Libbie and I went to Tremblays Bar for a simple pub meal. We had a "Not your Mamas Mac and Cheese" which was a short rib with caramelized onions and some cheese in a toasted sandwich. We had this with with a glass of Yuengling.
We then went over to Barbara's home where people had gathered. Just about everyone was there except for Mary & John and Holly & Darryl.

Breakfast this morning in our AirBnB. This is actually a nice place. Talked to our host Tom this morning about Newport. He recommended a little shack for lunch. We went to Newport and looked for parking to walk the Cliff. We finally found some a few blocks away on the Regina campus. There seemed to be lots of parking available. We had a lovely walk along the cliffs and enjoyed the nice day as well as the scenery. We made it just past the Tea House after starting at the Breakers. We bought water from an enterprising boy selling bottles out of an ice chest after the walk. Next we drove over to Tom's recommendation. We had the two lobster rolls for 15.99. Wow, this was the best ever. They cut up a whole lobster and filled a hot dog bun with the meat. The meal came with French Fries. We lucked out and found on street parking at a meter right near the place. Libbie emptied her pocket book into it since parking was $2 per hour. We bough almost 2 hours. I enjoyed the views at the restaurant - many women running around in bikinis. After lunch we walked to the car and stopped at 2 liquour stores to get the beer. The first did not have Yuengling in bottles, only cans so we bought Sierra then moved on. Picked up 2 packs of Yuengling in bottles at the next store. Then we crossed the bridge into Tiverton and ordered 6 pizzas and 2 salads for dinner. We paid $86 for the food. At 5 Libbie and I went over to set up the plates and napkins then I left at 5:40 to get the food. Somewhere after 6 Holly and her family showed up. We had not counted on them being there since they never responded. We were short food and beer so we ordered another pizza which i went out to pick up. Everything went well after that. We had a total of 27 people. After the dinner we went back to the AirBnB. in order to listen to music on my phone I paid for activation of the Plex client which was 4.99. It streams quite well from Traviata.

Up at 4 AM this morning then out the door on time at 4:30 AM. The Southwest line was light and TSA was easy. The flight to Baltimore was very smooth. We arrived early. Unfortunately we were planning to have breakfast at McDonalds and it was boarded up in the airport. The line at Chick Fil A was very long but we should have stuck with it. Instead we had a bacon and egg biscuit at Arbys which was awful. A very old hard biscuit with rubbery manufactured eggs. At least the coffee was very good. The second flight was totally full but it too was very smooth. i had trouble with the Enterprise Kiosk, it said my drivers license didn't match. I need more leading zeroes in my profile. We stood in line instead. We got an upgrade to a full size car because an intermediate was not available. We got a Nissan which was old and had a stained drivers seat but it was very smooth riding and comfortable unlike that Chevy impala we had last time. We picked up a Sub on Portsmouth along with some chips and took it to Barbara's house where we each had 1/3 of a turkey sub. Barbara is trying to get along without Bill but he did so much with the finances and bills that she is still bewildered by it all. We then went to check into our Air BnB. I tried a little Clarinet practice but was concerned about our hosts upstairs. We went over to Brookdale at 4:30 for 5 PM dinner with George and the ladies at his table. I had a salad, pork chop and corn on the cob. Dessert was a slice of pound cake with strawberry syrup. After dinner we went to Connors for cereal and milk then Spirits Liquor store for a bottle of Cabernet. We had a glass of Cabernet with some cheddar popcorn. I was able to access Traviata and play some music using the Plex server at home. I also was able to organize some of the CDs that i had ripped and placed on Traviata. Some of them are still on Manon that need transfer to Traviata so they were no organized.

I continued to work at ripping CDs. I downloaded the Plex media server since it works with Sonos and can handle more than the limited directory space in the Sonos system. I can run it on Traviata and let it serve my normal music directory from the hard drive.
This afternoon we had a good Tango lesson with Robert. The beginning of the routine is the part we screwed up this time. I came home and ripped a few more CDs then drove over to my music lesson with Justin at 5:30. We moved to the page with some duets and full songs. He also recommended some long tone exercises for developing breath control. Dinner tonight was the last of the pasta with veggies. Libbie prepared a smaller amount without the ricotta and other cheese to supplement our dinner. We had this with water. After dinner I packed my suitcases for our flight to Providence tomorrow. I got the Plex server installed but it needed to scan the music drive which was going to take a while. I left it scanning and went to back. Will check it remotely tomorrow.

IT's grocery day but since we're leaving for RI this week I didn't buy anymore. I finally got the webforms and views working for the Vintage Violet group and put together a series of pages. I also ripped many CDs of our library into MP#s. The CDEX software makes it easy. Eventually All my CDs will be ripped.
I also did some backups of the Ready Share which is the drive attached to the router for all this streaming. A concern is the amount of space available in Sonos. We may exceed that wo I may be using the Android TV box along with Plex Media server to handle offloading some of the categories. I'm thinking that the Opera and Classical can be offloaded while everything else remains on ReadyShare. I don't know how Plex Media server will work yet. We finally got a lot of rain. 1.31 inches fell in the evening. I thought the rain had passed us by. This is good news. Libbie said she heard the Sump pump running from the Family Room. Pretty Cool! The crawl is staying at 47% even though it's 98% outside. Dinner tonight was more corn on the cob along with the leftover pasta. I have to get up at my computer at 6:30 AM tomorrow to check in.

Libbie drove me to Dr Ira's office when it opened. Dr Amy put dye in my eyes then used a blue light to see the pieces of my lens in the back of my eye. She put some numbing drops on and removed the pieces. It felt so much better. I got a bottle of steroid drops that I have to put in 4 times a day to help the eye heal. I can't wear contacts until Wednesday. I resumed working on the Vintage violets which is a challenge. None of the database entries are showing up in a view. Lots of reading and then I gave up and created a clone site on Glembocki.info to play with membership for AVSA. I also tweaked glembocki.info which contains the TNG genealogy program. This site is working well. I resubmitted the process to transfer bluebirdgreenhouse from godaddy to namecheap. I would like all my domains registered on namecheap for simplicity.
Dinner tonight was the veggie pasta we made from Saturday. I planted the Oleander we purchased from the distress table at Lowes Pittsboro then ran out to Walmart and bought 3 bags of mulch. IT's so dry, the ground was like concrete when I dug. I used the new tiller to remove all the grass and weeds from a patch of ground then used it to try digging. I found the conduit that carries power down to the azaleas. I dug the Oleander hole next to the conduit. We had corn with it and a bottle of Cabernet. We have to stop doing this. The veggie pasta is fine but a full bottle of wine is not. My eye feels tremendously better this evening although it's still a little red.

Started the morning with a contact lens in my eye that seems to be behind the eye. i put another contact in to see but the eye seemed to get worse during the day. I switched to glasses for the rest of the day.
I struggled with the vintage violets. Can't get fields to display from the webforms entries. I also struggled with getting a clone site running so I could play with some PHP stuff to access the website. This too ended in failure.
Finally my last struggle was a success. I transferred the TNG genealogy site over to the new server at glembocki.info. After setting up the MySQL, assigning a User and changing the paths in the settings entry of TNG it all came to life again. Thank goodness for that. I would like to see this become more portable than it is. I like the idea of using PHP for the genealogy. Hopefully my PHP hacking skills will also assist me in implementing a smooth solution for the membership functions on Drupal. After lunch we drove to Pittsboro because the Lowes there was supposed to have eclipse glasses. They didn't but I bought a rescue Oleander. When we got back I moved the ladder to the front of the house. It previously was outside the sewing room window waiting for me to re-screen the window which I did do today and replaced the screen. From the ladder I cleaned the bedroom windows, knocked down the spider webs and washed the screens. This was for both windows. I chose to delay the Oleander planting until tomorrow since I was tired. I continued looking at the webform to content problem once we came back inside. Libbie made her delicious pizza today and used the scraps of tomatoes from our lunches. It was delicious as usual. I had a Killians Irish Red beer as well. My eye is not doing well at all. I think it is abraded and the contact is still in there somewhere. Cloudy milky fluid is leaking out of my eye. I hope the damage isn't too serious.

Nice music lesson this morning. I continue to have difficulty going from A to B in the higher notes. We covered dynamics this morning blowing a note from a soft one to full volume. I got some positive feedback on FB for a change regarding the IOS version of FC. A user reported her photos were restored properly. This is good.
I continued reading about running external programs to mess with the Drupal database. Some of the more important for my purpose articles and clippings I put on a new section of my Life Bits under Drupal tips. I was quite surprised there was no Drupal section in the Life Bits To help with this effort i started transferring files to a subdomain so I could run a clone copy of the website.
There was a minor panic in the late afternoon when Ken Barbi said the MAAVS website was down. The hosting had run out July 25 so i quickly renewed it and one hour later it was restored.
I read in the WSJ about Big box wines and they really liked a Kirkwood Rutherford Meritage. i went over to Costco just before closing and had a long chat with the Sommelier that was there. He was a total wine snob but I enjoyed talking with him. The store was unbelievably packed with people. The lines were long but i stuck with it and bought my single bottle of wine.
I helped Libbie make our latest Cooking Light recipe. They screwed this one up, the video and the recipe didn't match. I eventually found the recipe in a link on the video. the recipe was a Southern Living recipe and not cooking light but quite good. I made the ricotta, Romano and other spices filler. Libbie made the Ziti and chopped the yellow squash and zucchini then roasted the veggies in the broiler. The Cherry tomatoes went in whole. It was a delicious dinner that we had with the Kirkwood Rutherford Meritage wine. This wine reminds me of the Hunt blend that we had at Biltmore.

This was a busy but frustrating day. I t seemed that every time I got engrossed into something I had to abandon it and go do something else. I found a problem with the repair function on the IOS version of First Class. When no repairs are needed the searching message box does not dismiss. I created version 1.4.1 and started the upload to Apple process.

I did a lot of reading about how users are listed on the website. I'm almost thinking I would be better served by own set of custom routines to initially load and then to maintain the website, possibly with a chron job. I need now more than ever to clone the AVSA website to play with.

I did multiple practice sessions with my Clarinet today. I'm still having trouble getting the A to B transition to work smoothly. I'm doing better at hitting the notes on the metronome instead of missing them either early or late. We had spaghetti with cheese for dinner tonight then around 8 we left for dance. Anne Cain wasn't there since she's doing wedding things in Houston but Paul was. We tried our tango routine but we seemed to fail. After dance we went out to the Ale house with the Cains (Paul and Edward), the Rumleys and the Kretchmans. We ordered some pulled pork tacos which were delicious. I had a double barley amber which was good and what I was looking for.

I did a little better on the A to B transitions on the Clarinet. It's a matter of practice and making sure my fingers end up on the holes in the right spots. i spent a lot of the day figuring out how to import userids and passwords into Drupal. There are several choices of import and I evaluated a few of them. Reliability is a major concern. I'm wondering if I should try to figure out how to do this remotely by accessing the MySQL with a Pi or some other server. I can figure this out by taking a MySQL dump before and after adding a User, even a User with special roles. The sky would be the limit with just a little MySQL. In bad news, Kurt reported that the IOS fix did nothing on his iPhone. I'm going to restructure the IOS repair program to give more user feedback. I'll play with the alerts to see what kind of feedback I can give.
I made wings for dinner tonight. We had the wings with a beer, Kilians Red, an old favorite. The Kilians was on sale for 6.99 in Kroger.
I went to bed at 10:30 pretty tired. I was hoping I could get the IOS software reorganized tonight and submitted tomorrow.

Finally got back to the closet in the garage and touched up the paint in spots that needed more paint. I then put a new outlet in this wall and changed one other outlet in the garage, this time on the wall that is due for painting next. I moved the tools back into the closet once the paint dried and the electrical work was complete. Next item on the agenda was the Vintage Violet work. I tried creating a document stating what I was going to do but that quickly deteriorated. I ended up calling Tina after our dance lesson this afternoon.
I got what was needed straightened out with her. Now to do the work!
At our dance lesson we reviewed the second half of our routine today. There's a lot of stuff in there that we could potentially use in our dance repertoire. Dinner was the chicken Waldorf salad again in pita pockets because we had leftover grapes and apple half from yesterday. We opened a new bottle of Mondavi Cabernet and finished the whole thing with dinner. We shouldn't have done that but it was good!
Barbara pointed out that the member number only as a password would be bad because someone could guess a member number and if it worked publish it on social media. Tying the name with the password should reduce that possibility since it would force a person's name to be revealed and tied to the leak.

The following was misplaced but found elsewhere:
I worked all day on the restore function for the First Class for Mobile photos. I found a very nice notification system called iAlert which displays a good looking message on the screen. It really looks professional. I wrote a little routine that deleted a dozen or so pictures then used the repair routine to step through and fetch the picture from AVSA.org. Eventually i will have a photo list with file sizes and the routine will use that to do the checking. It may even be faster but for now this is a stop gap measure. I eventually uploaded it to Apple and jumped through all the hoops there to get it to the waiting for review state.
Dinner tonight was Waldorf Chicken Salad in Pieta pockets with some leftover wine from yesterday.

Continued working on the First Class for IOS app. I eventually got a version working with progress alerts being supplied by the iAlert library. This is a library that is pretty easy to implement and gives a very nice alert. I may try to use this to provide progress updates in the future. I worked on this late into the night and uploaded a version to Apple. I had to do some editing of the cert certificate to use the release certificate instead of the development one. Once i got through all this I jumped through all the right hoops and got it into the review process before going to bed.
Libbie made the Waldorf Chicken Salad today in Pita pockets. This was going to be yesterday's meal but she wasn't up to doing anything hard in the kitchen.

I got a new install file from Joe Bruns for First Class. This allowed me to get my desktop up to date with a version of First Class that was complete with all the photos. I'm using this as my base. I spent the day trying then abandoning an FTP function in the FC for M app. I believe FTP would be faster at file transfers but ended up with HTTP transfers because they work. I'm using a timer set to half second intervals to look for download complete and to kick off the next download. There are 3 retries built into each file download.
I wanted to get outside and finish up painting the closet but was committed to finishing this IOS job up so I didn't. Libbie was under the weather this afternoon so we had a simple dinner of Chinese takeout, the three meat Szechuan. I ran into Kroger and picked up a bottle of CK Mondavi Cabernet. CK Mondavi comes with a screw cap. After dinner i went back to working on the program.

I did some final sanding of the garage closet then painted it with the blue paint. I ran out of paint and ran out to Home Depot to get another can. The color has changed slightly, the new formulation is a darker shade. They removed VOC's from the dye used in the tints thanks to the EPA. I finished the job. Next event was to work on the iPad version of First Class. I found the error in the missing pictures. They were being copied to the private directory instead of into the Vcat directory. I wrote a program to search the directory compared to the SQL database and found that there were more pictures missing then just the bad directory. My iPad is missing around 600 pictures which is disturbing. The people on Facebook were right. Libbie made her pizza this evening for dinner. It was perfect, the crust was thin and crisp and quite an improvement over the awful pizza we had in Atlanta. I continued working on the First Class problem into the night. In the meantime Joyce had a problem with the website while preparing her growing tips. Her PDF wasn't there. Apparently she forgot to save it.

I had my morning lesson with Justin and had problems. My thumb cramped up while trying to do the transition from A to B in the high notes. I had lots of problems doing this. Justin said that this is the gateway to progressing further in the book. Uh Oh. I have a challenge to meet. Practice, practice, practice. I did a light sanding in the garage but decided that I still needed a little more plaster on the crawl space vent sheet rock cover. I put a light coating of plaster in a few spots. Tomorrow I'll sand and paint to finish this job up. There is a FB discussion thread where many people are reporting missing pictures in the IOS app. I started looking at the problem and was able to replicate the problem that Kurt posted, Now i need to find out why the picture is not being displayed. We went to the produce stand in Apex and got tomatoes, corn, peaches and a melon. For dinner we had corn on the cob which is still very good considering it's getting later in the season. We had the leftover ribs from last weekend and Rodney Strong Cabernet along with the corn. The ribs burned a little on the grill because they were still frozen somewhat.

I continued the lighting project this morning. It's warm and very humid outside but I got 5 more lights hooked up. In addition, I moved a wheel barrow of dirt into the tire tracks that the Crawl Space construction crew made in front of the Red Bud on the turn around. Next major piece of landscaping is to move the bayberry bushes back where they are leaning over in front of the big pine and tie them up. I want to install another light here facing the pine.
I finished the lighting but had sever cramps in my hand. Libbie said it was dehydration and google agreed. I drank plenty of water in the evening and also bought some bananas at Kroger to combat the cramps. For dinner we had hamburgers before going to the studio for dance. I danced with the blonde Lisa who is a very good dancer. Not sure what her story is. After the dance we went out to MacGregor Tavern for fully loaded nachos and a Yuengling. Accompanying us were the Hyghs and the Kretchmans. Anita starts work on Monday. I programmed my last Sonoff module and installed it in the garage hooked up to the new power transformer for the Driveway West Lights. I had to modify the power controller since it had a digital timer that did not turn on when you first plugged it in. This was not acceptable since I need to use the Sonoff to power the device on and off. In it's current configuration when the Sonoff would apply power the controller won't turn on. I completely removed the digital timer making the unit a power transformer only. We left for dance at 8 PM and sunset was 8:25 so we didn;t see the lights until we got home. I was thrilled they were all on and mostly aimed correctly. I adjusted the one on the Redbud at the turnaround to aim higher.

Lots to do today. Fired up the chain saw and cut some small trees in the backyard the cut all the saplings along the driveway where I ran the landscape wire. I raked aside the pine straw and then used the tiller to break up the ground before using a combo of the pick and the shovel to clear a trench for conduit. Snaked the wire inside the conduit and ran it under the sidewalk and in the shallow trench then covered everything up and repaired the sidewalk I previously dismantled. The power pack i bought had a digital timer which i did not need, i only want the thing to turn on or off depending on whether power is applied or not. I took the thing apart and threw the digital circuitry into the round bucket. Next i hot wired the 110VAC line cord to the transformer and reassembled everything. I mounted it on the wall and plugged it in to try it. The one light does a nice job of lighting the Cherry Tree. Tomorrow I hope to install the rest of the lights.
My hand is suffering severe cramping this afternoon after the trench work. I don't know what happened. Libbie said it's dehydration which i believe after checking Google and the Mayo Clinic. They said it could be low minerals such as Potassium, Calcium or dehydration. Dinner was hamburger with tomato and Vidalia onion. Our side was Bush's baked beans. After dinner i went out to look at my one light on the Cherry Tree. I'm amazed that so much is lit up with only 3.2 watts. Wow.

Lots to do today. I managed to put out the First Class update then practiced Clarinet. Next it was a trip to Home Depot to get landscape lights and wire.
I reeled off 200 feet of the wire before coming in to hose off for dance. We had another good dance practice. During our lesson Robert's old boss dropped in from the old Arthur Murray studio.
The new Chain Saw came today. I put it together but did not fire it up. i wish I had it this afternoon when I was putting down the wire. I have lots of stuff that i want to trim along the path. Today I was dismayed when I saw a squirrel eating one of our ripe tomatoes on the fence. It's so discouraging. Dinner was spaghetti with Mortgage Lifter tomato added and cheese. It was pretty good. After dinner we went out to Kroger for dish soap and ice cream at Brewster's. I took the opportunity to get one gallon of fresh gas mixed with 2.6 oz of oil for the new chain saw.

This is the first full day back. I practiced my Clarinet and was surprised I picked it up OK. I spent some time organizing , downloading and backing up pictures from the trip. I also worked on the Weather gateway some more, replacing the NTP functions with a more reliable one. Still have more to do. We went to the Produce stand and got watermelon, peaches and other fruits then I did the normal Tuesday groceries. The crawl space is behaving itself although I had to reset the Crawl sensor to get a humidity reading. Not sure what happened there but I will incorporate temp and humidity in the current measuring probe when I get that built. We had chowder for lunch then had a nice dinner of fresh corn on the cob and Waldorf Chicken salad. I spent the evening listening to music and watching some interesting ladies on You Now.