My brother-in-law Bill can do just about everything. He is having vinyl siding put on his home. They have an older home, two stories and it had aluminum siding but was in need of a redo. Nikki, my niece and Charlene's youngest daughter works at Alside in Hudson, Ohio. So Bill was able to get a break on the vinyl siding and had hired a company to install it. Bill took on the project of redoing the front porch. Friday Bob and Bill and one of Charlene's friends Jimmy all went back to their house to do a little work on the porch before the installer came. Charlene and I went shopping:) There is still a Penney's Outlet near her home, so we hit that and ran a few errands.
That morning Charlene had taught me how to make White Chili Chicken in the crock pot, so when the boys were done and we had finished shopping, we all headed back to Bill and Charlene's trailer for another great meal and fire. Charlene loves fires, so while we visited with them every night we had a fire. Bob and I headed to bed at 10:00 p.m. I think that they were up much later.
The next morning Bob got fix-it Bill to bring his friends, Jim and Red, who were camping at West Branch also, to come fix a few things around our motorhome. Red is an air conditioning and refrigeration repairman. Jimmy, like Bill can fix just about anything. Bob is not a fix-it man, but he is very good at helping. Bill, Jim, and Red all had tool boxes with them. Can you imagine? On a camping trip, on a holiday weekend! They played with the hot water tank, flushing it out and showing Bob the important parts. They messed with the toilet, (not in the toilet) putting a new gasket into it. They worked on the refrigerator, turning it down. It was set too high and Red gave me a digital thermometer, so that I could check if my refrigerator and freezer were set correctly. I guess Labor Day weekend has more meaning to us now, that we got all that free labor.
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