3/31/13 (Sunday) - Weather: sunny and some wind
We woke up around 8:30a.m. and had lemon cream puff
biscuits for breakfast. After we went outside and finished the foundation. For lunch, we had bread with butter and jam and ice cream. After Tom finished eating, he took a nap and I wrote this journal.
When Tom woke up from the nap we went back out and put the four 4x4x9ft wood on top of the concrete block then we put the 18 feet long 2x4 on top. Then we started cutting the 15 pieces of 2x4x96” and 2 pieces of 4x4x8 to 93 inch long to fit between them.
When we done, I went to take a shower, while Tom check the level. He found out the foundation was off by 3 inches between the left and right hand sides. Also he cut several small pieces of woods (glue in under the bottom of 4x4x9) to make it level. I was helping Tom to glue the woods on to the 4x4x9.
Tom told me he needs to buy one more bag of concrete to add to the block and #8 x ¾ long round head screw to connect to the two bottom rail. Then Tom went back in the trailer and took a shower. We thought we have enough time, we found out Home Dept and Lowe’s were close at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, but since today was 3/31/13 (Easter the both store closed early) we ended up going to Walmart to check the screw, but they were out of the size we wanted. We bought more food for next day. They have donuts on sale 6 pieces for $1.50 and 12 pieces for $2.50, but only few donuts left, so we only bought 6. Also we bought cat litter, clamp light, bread and some lunch meats.
When Tom woke up from the nap we went back out and put the four 4x4x9ft wood on top of the concrete block then we put the 18 feet long 2x4 on top. Then we started cutting the 15 pieces of 2x4x96” and 2 pieces of 4x4x8 to 93 inch long to fit between them.
When we done, I went to take a shower, while Tom check the level. He found out the foundation was off by 3 inches between the left and right hand sides. Also he cut several small pieces of woods (glue in under the bottom of 4x4x9) to make it level. I was helping Tom to glue the woods on to the 4x4x9.
Tom told me he needs to buy one more bag of concrete to add to the block and #8 x ¾ long round head screw to connect to the two bottom rail. Then Tom went back in the trailer and took a shower. We thought we have enough time, we found out Home Dept and Lowe’s were close at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, but since today was 3/31/13 (Easter the both store closed early) we ended up going to Walmart to check the screw, but they were out of the size we wanted. We bought more food for next day. They have donuts on sale 6 pieces for $1.50 and 12 pieces for $2.50, but only few donuts left, so we only bought 6. Also we bought cat litter, clamp light, bread and some lunch meats.
Next we went to check on the Dairy Queen see if they have any
food beside desert. I check the menu, I only see desert. So we went to Wendy’s
for dinner, when we done, they lady who work there came over and asked us what
race are we? We told her we were Chinese, and then she told us she is ¼ of
Korean and she is only 16 years of age. She dropped out from high school and went
to the vocational school. She wanted to work in billing field in the medical office. While
we were talking, another guy (worker from Wendy’s) come out and told her she was clocked her already. Because she was talking to us and not working. We ask
her we hope you would not get fired from the job. She said she will be fine and
continued talking to us.
Couples of minutes later we left the store and went to the
Walmart Neighborhood Market. We checked to see if they have the screw we want,
but I did not see any. I ended up buying 4 cans of Friskies cat food. When I looked
at the receipt I found out their sale tax is cheaper only 7.10 % not 9.10 %, so
I told Tom next time if we want to buy any other supply we should come here.
Tom dropped me off to Safeway to buy ice cream, after that we went
back to our trailer. But we have to go
to the Lowe’s tomorrow morning to buy screw and concrete.
