Thursday, June 14, 1984

I paid our Great Gas God, Cilco, $35.00, which left me owing $200.00. Then in the mail today, I got a letter stating that the HEAP program will pay $265.00 on my bill tomorrow. I hope that the extra $65.00 is applied to my future bills. I paid the water bill too.

I spent $25.00 for a Chinese dinner I made tonight. I spent four and one-half hours preparing it for Steve, Teresa and me.

I cleaned the pool and it is looking better everyday. It's a light green color and needs to be scrubbed more than anything else now. I still have quite a few leaves in it, but they will be vacuumed out soon and are the least of my worries. The leeches have died with the addition of all the pool chemicals.

Steve made my dogs a wooden ramp to be able to get in and out of the pool by themselves, but my male, took an instant dislike to it and chewed it up.

My main worry is not having enough money to do the roof and buy the chemicals I need to keep the pool up to par.

Sonny and his brother took all the shingles off the back side of the house and the rotten plywood too. They are supposed to have everything delivered tomorrow morning, and are supposed to start replacing the roof tomorrow. I hope to hell it doesn't rain tonight, because there isn't much roofing plywood on the back of the house. Sonny doesn't know that I don't have all of the money to pay him yet, and I will knock it off his rent instead. It looks like rain tonight, and if it rains much, all the tile in all the bedroom ceilings may cave in.

Deanna helped me pick enough mulberries from her backyard tree for a pie, and I made her a lemon meringue pie for a going-away present, her favorite.

My sunburn is peeling, but it hasn't bothered me much and wasn't even sore.

Greg's in and out, but gone most of the time.

President Reagon is supposed to speak on TV tonight, but I'm not even going to watch him, because I am sick of hearing that things are getting better. Another neighbor of mine is losing his house next week and I know that neighbor doesn't think that anything is getting better.