Kaylee is doing all right. She's taking her antibiotics, and she's started in singing and practicing for her auditions again. She's not well yet, but she's feeling well enough that she had company over yesterday. She asked if it was okay if her friends Caitlyn and Zach came over and hung out yesterday. Sure. It was kind of fun hearing them up there laughing, playing music, chatting, etc. They called me up there to show me their glowing foam stuff in the dark. Caitlyn calls me "Captain" after she went flying with me at the BBQ Bash. Zach is the other sax player, Encore person, singer, friend, that just moved this year from Eastern to Oregon, and he's just back visiting. He said he didn't know what to call me, and I said he could call me Laura, or "Captain" if he desired, and he paused and said "I like Captain. That's cool." So Captain it is. lol I think it's neat that her friends are so laid back about interacting with us. They think it's cool that we're so laid back in general. They hung out up front until after 1 am, then went to "Dirty Dan's" to get some donuts, then hung out some more, then Caitlyn spent the night here and Zach went home. Nobody is stirring up front yet. ;)
Ann is still working on recovering. She's getting there. :)
Part of our adventure yesterday was...we got a new microwave! And we got it installed. That is more of a story. I think it's the same one Steve's mom has. It's big, roomy, and I think it looks good up there. But boy it was an adventure getting it in. We stopped at Menards on our way home from lunch with the airport guys, got some more pate cat food because now neither one of our cats will eat the good, expensive cat food in gravy that has meat slivers in it. They lick the gravy up and leave all the meat. So now I'm not sure what we'll do with like 50 cans of this expensive stuff. Dumb cats. Maybe put it in a blender prior to giving it to them once to see if they'll eat it? That'll be great. Too bad you can't sell it. Anyway. Different story. We got cat food, and then the microwave Steve wanted was there, so we picked it up and brought it home. He knew it would require some effort, but it required more than expected. He had to pull out an electrical outlet, then cover it, cut out several holes in the cabinet above, drill things, run wiring, pull out the stove/oven, which I cleaned up. It's amazing the dust and food particles that cling to the side of an oven. I cleaned the floor back there while it was out, and the sides of the counters, and we had not yet begun. I don't know what all he did out there, but off and on it took all day. He had a template up there, measured three times, went stud-hunting at least twice, put in a bracket, and then he and I lifted this 53 lb microwave and tried to get it in the right slots in a tight space. Bent some brackets. It didn't go as planned, but we finally got it in. At one point he is underneath the thing, and I'm holding it up by myself, pushed against the wall, mostly on my tiptoes, holding up and out 53 lbs at chest level, thinking...if I drop this, I'm going to kill him. It doesn't seem like the thing a 46 and a 59 year old couple should be doing, but we actually managed okay. We get the whole thing in there, including giant bolts and all, step back, and he's not happy that the bracket should have gone further to the left and something sticking out of the cabinets he didn't anticipate made something not line up right. So WE TOOK THE WHOLE THING BACK DOWN. He then redid his stuff, and it was time to put it all back up. By this time, my muscles are sore, it's 11:00 pm, he's been at this all day, and I lost my motivation at the "taking it all back down" phase. This is why it's good I don't do that for a living, because I'm afraid it would have been Good Enough as it was. ;) This time when he crawled underneath, he pushed his head up against the bottom trying to help me not have as much load on my own. I could definitely feel it. I was probably pushing harder than I needed to, but I sure didn't want to push not enough, and have something give way, or drop, and not be able to catch it. But finally we got it in, got the stove/oven back, and cleaned up the mess left behind of drilled drywall, cupboards, etc. Vacuumed the stuff off the floor, and got almost everything back. We will have to do something with the cord in the cupboard above it, as right now it (cupboard) won't properly fit all the dishes we had up there, but all in all we're pleased with how it looks, and don't care to do that again any time soon. ;) My back, legs and arms feel it today, but not too bad. Weight bearing exercise is good for you anyway. Good thing I regularly push and pull heavy airplanes around and am oddly strong for my age/gender anyway. lol So here's the final product, anyway, photo taken this morning.
Time to take a shower and get ready to go fly with the student. I'm so glad to have a microwave again! :)
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