My day Off
As I am now working 6 days a week, Sunday is my day of rest.  Last night I set the alarm for 5:30am.  Why you may ask?  A building was to be moved from its resting place for the last 93 years to a new location on the east side of the Willamette river.

The structure was the Episcopal chapel at the corner of SW Bancroft and Corbett Avenue a mere half-mile from where I live.  I had driven past the prepared building for some time.  Friday there was a notice to say the house was to be moved, street parking on the route was not allowed.  Of course, I missed the mission house trundling past my door and took after it as it crossed the Ross Island bridge.  On foot, I barely made it as it turned into the road that was to be its final resting place.

I hung around as the structure sans roof, was maneuvered onto the new lot.  The roof had been removed necessitating a large crane to place it back on the main shell.  I got to hold the tape as the crane operator made some measurements.  There were a lot of big kids looking on.  I held it with pride.  I felt that I had been selected for my tape holding prowess by a man that recognized a like minded spirit.

After all the excitement I toured the river and made a loop across the Hawthorne bridge and walked down to the South Waterfront Development.  By now the temperature was rising on a sunny, blue skied day.  Tree blossom was dripping from branches.

I passed a dog. Standing at attention, scrutinizing me as a I walked. I continued another 500 feet or so. Stopped. The dog was not leashed, no one around. I turned to look. He stood. A truck entered the lot where he was. He ran. I followed.

Several people asked if he was my dog.  We stopped thirty feet apart.  He was interested but did not respond positively to 'Here boy!".  He ran off in the opposite direction.  15 or twenty minutes later he ran back the other way following a couple of women pushing a stroller, "is this your dog?".

I conjured up a story of this dog that belonged to a homeless person who overdosed while sleeping behind a waterfront warehouse.  You never know.  I drove around the area later in the day.  No dog to be seen.

I hate sliding shower doors attached to bath tubs.  So I outed them.  Bought a shower curtain rail and installed that today with my Lakeville showerr curtains.  Happier now.  Landlord probably less so.  I have already removed a door and use it as a headboard.  May take the rest of the shower door frame away.

The bath tub is small and shallow but now it is a lot more elegant to have a bath in.  May get some candles and bath salts.  Almost luxury.

Then I went to see my girls.  Gina 3 and Gina 2.  I had electricity installed in the larger garage where G2 is.  I was able to drill out a panel behind the front wheel and removed about 3 pounds of dirt that has collected behind it.  A common corrosion point.  Both sides are pretty rotten.  Small panels can be welded in.

Hung a fluorescent light.  Need to hang the other and connect them up.  I had a basic installation now I need to run some more cable, outlets and switches.

Barbequed tonight. Used mesquite. Not bad. Could have been a better pork chop.