Dinner with the Damours

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  Saturday<P>

We got up before 8.  I brushed, gargled, swabbed and rinsed.  Then I went to the kitchen to take supplements and prepare water.  I worked on the blog I should have posted last night.  I also jotted notes for yesterday and then posted that too.  I added hours to my VMIS tracker.<P>

I checked e-mail and Facebook.  At 10 I asked Chris for a massage.  He said yes and I went back to prepare me and the bed.  When he did not come back, I went out and asked if he needed more time.  This led to quite a 'discussion'.  Took about an hour.  Then he gave me a massage.  Afterward, I took my shower and he took his.  <P>

I put eggs in the steamer, then I made and ate breakfast.  I called Michele and then John but neither answered.  So I drove over to 629 and no one was there.  So I went to 612.  Michele let me in.  We talked for a bit, then I drove us over to 629 to clean. We started upstairs and worked our way down.  I found places that needed scrubbing even though we did not get it dirty.  Like the tub.  I didn't do a full clean, but it was cleaner than it was.  We got the window tracks and baseboards too.  <P>

There was a bunch of stuff to move out.  Like all the stuff I used to set up the place thinking they would move in.  We took some of it back to my place.  I peeled eggs while Michele got a snack.  Chris was there and he was about to go to the commissary, so Michele went with him.  I went back to 629 with boxes to load up stuff and bedding.  I worked on the kitchen cabinets and stove.  This was dirt left behind from a previous tenant.  <P>

I was working on the stairs when I heard Michele unlocking the front door.  I threw open the door and shouted Boo.  It was the funniest thing!  I collapsed on the floor, just like rotflmao indicates.  She laughed too once she recovered from the shock.  Then we worked on packing the boxes and moving stuff to the garage for the final clean.  Michele mopped while I shoved everything in my car.  We left a cloth there for her to wipe up spots that the inspection team might point out. <P> 

We went to 612.  John and Chris were literally making a bed.  She and I picked up a few things.  She made me a cup of tea.  Then she made rice.  The men came down and put the leaves in the table, which was not as easy as it should have been.  When they finished, they retired to the living room.  I set the table while she added kimchi, tuna, onion, diced peppers, corn and peas.  She filled plates and put them on the table and we all gathered round to say grace.  Then we ate and talked. <P>

 After supper, they wanted to go to the gym.  But Chris and I said we could not exercise after eating.  So we went home.  We got the water jugs and went to the post office to fill them.  We also dropped off two boxes of stuff at the swap shop.  And I picked up our mail, although most of it was for John and Michele. <P> 

When we got home, Chris brought in the water.  I started listening to a cheese-making video from the same site that showed me how to butcher and skin a goat.  After listening once, and hearing how she started with cultured milk, I put a quart of milk on the stove to warm.  I looked through my probiotics for an L-reuteri.  Then I added that to the milk to culture and put it on the stove.  I jotted notes for my blog, stopping to check in the temperature.  <P>

When it reached 90, I shut the gas off.  I let it set for awhile.  Finally I made tea.  While Chris turned on the TV etc, I poured the warm milk back into the bottle and put it in the fridge.  Then we watched an episode of Atlantis.  I helped him make the bed.  He went to bed while I brushed, swabbed and gargled.  I played a few hymns on my trombone.  Then I looked up Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis to see what I missed in the game.  I stopped it at the first step that we missed.  I jotted notes for my blog and went to bed.<P>