Saturday, July 8, 1984

I sprayed for cockroaches here and at Mom's house again. I've been seeing the baby woodroaches here, but I haven't seen any adults.

I've looked my house over to see what it really needs to be in good shape. It needs the new water spots in the back bedroom ceiling sealed and painted, a new back door and the outside of the house painted, a total outlay of about $400.00, plus my labor, outside paneling on one peak beneath the roof, the remainder of the bathroom tiles and the new carpet installed in the bedroom.

The ornamental trellis that Sonny and Felicia want will only cost about $20.00, and I already have ivy that will climb it. Felicia has put some paint on layaway, that was on sale, and she wants to paint one of the kid's bedroom. $30.00 will take care of the paint and trellis. She also wants to paint the living room with $20.00-30.00 of paint. She says that one of the walls in one of the kid's bedrooms literally freezes with ice on the inside in the winter. I hope some type of brick caulking will solve that problem, although I haven't seen any big defects in the bricks, mortar or around the window on that wall. I will punt.

Greg borrowed Mom's car for a date, because he only has a truck.

Greg and his date, Steve and Teresa, and Steve's sister and brother-in-law went swimming tonight. I've still not been swimming this year. When it's been warm enough, I have been working or it's rained. Tonight the water is too cold for me. Most of the time it's just too crowded though. I used to love going swimming late at night when it was hot and the humidity was high.

I picked green beans, gooseberries and lettuce. I made a pot of chili to take to work this week. I cleaned my desk and it looks naked.

I started my two week, midsummer, pre-vacation housecleaning. I want to clean everything, except for washing the walls before I leave. I'm sure no matter what I do, my roommates will have a disaster zone here before I get back. Steve is going to get awfully sick of Greg not doing anything around here. I look for fireworks between them while I'm gone. My roommates are the odd couple personified.