Altoona, IA - Gary in the Shower

No, this is not that kind of blog. Gary might be in the shower but fully clothed and working hard with his tools at the ready.

It's our last trip up to Fort Dodge and Gary wants to finish up Jack’s shower but is thinking that if Jack wants to do it himself, he’s not going to fight it. But, Jack was happy to have Gary do it. He knows that Gary will do a good job and he’s got it started. Then, instead of hovering over him, Jack did his own thing: exercising, working on the deck. Just what Gary wanted. 

Since we had eaten bagels on the way up to FD, we weren’t hungry and Jack gave us some yogurt later in the afternoon. I meanwhile, had gotten in a 3 mile walk around his neighborhood. This was obviously before I stubbed my toe on Jack’s Exercycle. Metal - boy, is my toe black and blue. Well, actually, there’s a lot of red for the blood vessels that broke. 

Gary had lots of trouble with the piping in Jack’s shower since the pipes seem to have been stripped and they don’t screw together like they should. He finally got it all done about 6:00. We had planned to leave Fort Dodge much earlier but . . .  Oh, well. Gar got it done right. 

We had dinner at Subway and got home at 8:30, a bit too late to do the utilities and get the RV ready for travel tomorrow to Freightliner. 

Another late day.

'Beware the pessimist: the sort of person who hangs around the train depot and tells everyone the train 'is never going to get here' When it chugs into view, he says: 'They'll never get that thing stopped.' When it stops, he says, 'Nope, they'll never get it started again.' When it fires up and heads off, he says: 'Well that's the last we'll ever see of that thing.'