Still here.

 Quiet day today. (Thank goodness!)

We got up early and went to Eastern States to buy the rest of the trim boards. We saw a couple with a 5 foot roll of 'bubble wrap', a product that goes under a tin roof. They were trying to stuff it into a Kia. It was not working. 

We stopped and tried to help them, but there was just no way that it was going to go. I said, "Where do you need this to go?" and the man said ruefully, "Corry."

I said, "We're going to Corry..."

The man asked where we lived in Corry. 

I said, "We don't, but we need to go through Corry to get our load to Grand Valley." 

Tim said, "Yeah. We can haul it for you. We'll have room."

The guy said, "Really? Do you know where Gigi's is?" It made me laugh because that's Tim's favorite diner. "Yes," I said. We sure do know where Gigi's is." 

Tim and he hauled the roll over to our truck and slid it under the tonneau cover. I waited with his wife, who was the tiniest bit cross. "I TOLD him it wouldn't fit in the car. I wanted him to bring the truck but nooooooo..." We commismerated about stubborn men, and she said, "Do you know -------- -------? He lives in Grand Valley." Could have knocked me over with a feather. He is a distant cousin. She said, "My sister was his mother." I said, "Well, my maternal grandmother was his father's sister." Just made me laugh. 

Anyways, while we waited, Tim showed me the siding he wanted. It's not what I would have chosen, but you know what? At this point, I'm tired of debating every last little thing. I just want to get this done. I told him it didn't matter to me. 

We met our new friends in the parking lot of the diner. He had just pulled in, so the timing was perfect. While we were there, since it was shortly after noon, Tim decided that we should have lunch. The man does not miss a chance to have one of those big hamburgers. 

We got some more trim up in the last bedroom, but it started to rain, so we had to haul the saw back inside. The rain is making the raised beds look nice, and I just can't get over how quickly pumpkin vines grow. Every day, there are more blossoms on the tomatoes, and that makes me happy too. 

One of the things that we got today was the pulldown steps to the attic. Normally you would put them in before finishing the ceilings, but the thing is that if the inspector had seen that, we'd have had to put electric lights in the attic. We didn't want to do that, because we have windows going in on each end for ventilation and light. So...when the inspector started in on everything we needed to do to meet the standards for an attic, we simply decided to stop talking about the attic. The inspection is complete, and now we'll put those stairs and windows in.  

To reduce the dust from that job, Tim wanted to have the bedroom door on. We can tarp the room, and shut the door while we work, and hopefully the dust will stay in that room instead of settling all over the house. Of course, we don't have bedroom doors yet, so that was something else we needed to take care of. We made a run to Lowe's when we were done and picked out the doors we liked. Then, I walked around the corner and saw two special order doors that had been returned and were now on clearance. I called Tim around, and he liked them just fine, and so, for about half the price of just one door we wanted, we got the two doors. They are primed and ready to be painted. 

I didn't walk today. It's rainy and I didn't feel like getting caught in it. 

A sad thing happened Saturday. A young man with a new sports car was horsing around. He hit another car at a high rate of speed. Both vehicles hit a bridge and burst into flames. Both drivers were killed and the girl friend was life flighted to Pittsburgh. The road had been closed for hours while they cleaned up the scene. We passed over the bridge 4 times today, and it is a bit shocking to see the blackened concrete and the damage and to remember that on a beautiful June day, in the blink of an eye, two lives were lost. 

Our hero, John Fetterman, with his thoughts on the Big Beautiful Bill. Start it at 37 seconds. Glad that he's got his priorities straight. 

That's all I have to say. The news gets worse by the day. 

Well...except that Bryan Kohberger has decided to plead guilty to four counts of murder in exchange for the death penalty being taken off the table.