Wednesday, June 13, 1984

I finished painting the bathtub, the trim around the tub and cleaned the bathroom afterward.

I forgot that I was filling the pool with water, and the water overflowed. The water covered the pool filter, short-circuited the pool filter motor and blew the garage fuse. If Steve hadn't been working on a mouse trap in the garage when the lights in the garage went out, I don't know what would have happened. After the water in the filter area drained, I started the pool filter and it worked, luckily.

I took Deanna, Steve and Teresa to see a Chinese-type Zen garden that a man, who lives about three blocks from here, built in his back yard. On the way there, an eleven or twelve year old boy on a bicycle decided that he could beat my car across the street. If I hadn't had great brakes, I would have hit him. I only missed him by about three inches. I didn't even see him until he was right in front of my car. It's a miracle the kid wasn't hurt or killed. Luckily, the kid won, this time.