Wednesday, October 17, 1984

I cleaned Alma's two freezers, because one of Larry's friends is going to butcher his cattle, very large black angus, and Larry is going to buy one, plus a pig.

I folded a load of dry clothes at my house, put a load of wet clothes in the dryer and washed another load of clothes. I cleaned out the refrigerator section of my frig/freezer, and washed some bowls and containers that had been sitting in the frig with food in them for at least a month.

I went to the grocery stor, armed with cents-off coupons, to buy cleans products, and it still cost me $16.00. I bought touch-up paint for different rooms in the house. I took my non-working stove clock/timer and smoke detector to a repair shop, but the repairman said he couldn't fix either item. I pitched the smoke detector in the garbage.

A co-worker at Ruth's stopped by this afternoon to tell me that everyone thinks Ruth had a slight stroke. I think that Ruth has had slight strokes on more than one occasion, including last Saturday. I'm more concerned about Ruth's swollen ankles and partial inability to urinate currently. She acts the same to me, though.