Friday. June 8, 1984

After going to the hardware store for necessities and the pool supply store, I don't have enough money for the new roof. I spent over $100.00. I bought roach spray, powder and bombs, a fiberglass kit to fill the holes in the bathtub, eighteen feet of pool hose, pool booster chloride, chloride stabilizer, muriatic acid, algaecide and chlorine tablets.

From 8Am until 1:30PM, I cleaned out the pit area of the pool that's deeper than the rest of the pool and hooked up the pool filter. Then I let the filter circulate the water with the new chemicals to thoroughly mix them until 8:30 tonight. I have a phenomenon in the pool that I've never had before, leeches. I have no idea where they came from, nor how they are able to live with all the chemicals in the pool.

I re-stripped Dad's bed headboard, footboard and sideboards again, sanded them and put one coat of polyurethane on them.

Since Steve had no spare tire, he took my car to work again, and is supposed to have a free spare tire lined up for his car. I didn't have any money for gas, so he borrowed the gas money from his girlfriend, Teresa. He's supposed to start working thirty-two hours a week - starting Sunday, instead of the nineteen hours he works now. He's better have transportation, because he won't be able to drive mine all the time, and maybe not at all, if I get a job.