Friday, June 15, 1984

Teresa helped me make another type of pool cover, one that will keep bugs and dirt out of the pool. It will help the chemicals in one way, but will be detrimental in another way, so, it evens out and maybe I won't have to vacuum the pool every day. Because I don't get as much debris in the pool, it should use less chemicals, but because it will warm the water more, the chemicals are destroyed more quickly. I vacuumed the pool today though.

I washed and waxed the kitchen floor and entryway and vacuumed all the carpeting.

Greg saw a garage sale that was selling carpet scraps. I hustled over there and found a three foot by seven foot burgundy scrap for a dollar: I fitted and sewed it together for my bathroom. It's better than the still-wet-from-plumbing-mess carpet that was in there, even though a beige or gray would have looked better. Beggars can't be choosy!

I also bought two winter dresses for $.68 and they fit like a dream.

I made ten mulberry tarts and had enough lemon pudding filling, left over from the pie I gave Deanna, to make four lemon meringue tarts. All but three have been eaten already.

Don stopped by to tell me Diane moved back to her parent's home. He's been unable to find work and they didn't have enough money to live on. She has a babysitting job one day a week and cared for an invalid one day a week. When there isn't enough money to even buy toilet paper, naturally any relationship will crumble. They had all the rest of their problems worked out, but the money problems were too much. He's trying to get on active duty in the Air Force, but he's been told that it will take at least three months. I don't know how he's going to survive until then. I didn't ask and he didn't say.