Thursday

Back on the tools today.
  Spent the day in the unit fixing up the problems in the walls.  It turns out one of the doors looks like it was in a war, but tried some wood filler on it and will see how it turns out tomorrow.  Fixed the hole in the floor with a piece of plywood.  Then had to pull out the fridge to cut a hole in the wall to repair a hole in the hallway wall.  I put on a few trim pieces that were either missing or were needed after some of the changes we made.  Took down all the masking tape and plastic.  Then Kenny & I measured up the floor for the underlay we will be installing. 
  We had lots of company again, so Marg between washing the walls down conducted some more tours.  She went over to talk with the neighbours across the street.  It seems the prior owners allowed them to park on the drive under the carport and Chris asked if he could do that in the summer.  Marg agreed to this and Miranda offered to look in on the place if we would like.  It will be of some comfort knowing they will keep an eye on things.  From talking to friends, it seems most people summarize their places here.  They block off the drains and leave pails of water in the unit to help with the intense heat.  The water evaporates so quickly that they put small holes in the lids or use large bottles so the small neck area slows down the evaporation.  Apparently it is helpful to have someone refill the buckets.  Kind of the opposite of what we are accustomed to when we have to winterize our stuff in GP.
  After lunch we went out and rented a truck.  $20 a day, pretty good day rate.  Anyway we got a brand new Ford, 3,000 miles on it.  We went out and ordered our laminate flooring and picked up the plywood as well as a few more tools.  One of the tools is a 10" power sliding mitre saw, now this will be cool.  Used my coupon for it and the price was great, also used a second coupon and got another free gift, this time a pair of work gloves.  For a skill saw and jig saw I am just using Kenny's and then several other peoples drills.  I plan to screw the floor down and with no Robertson screws here, the choices are Phillips or some other multi-point screw head that I have not seen before.  Took all the stuff back to the rv park and then used the truck to hall all the garbage [carpet & underlay mostly] to the dumpster.  This attracted lots of attention, the truck had UHaul and advertising all over it, including a big $19.95/day sign.  Some of our questionable friends gave us a hard time about the truck, even if it was new, saying they thought we would rent a high dollar unit.  I think when all was said and done we put about 17 miles on the truck.  The standing joke is that us Canadians have lots of money, but I just tell them we have to come here because stuff is so much cheaper that it keeps us from eating cat food.  LOL  Another joke I heard is that there are so many Albertans down here, that they need to spray for them.
  Supper tonight was bbq, but no happy hour.  What happened to our lifestyle?  Wait there is a party tomorrow!
  Will try to get some pictures to liven things up a bit, maybe one of the new power saw.  Almost forgot about those as well.