Tomorrow?

They never came this morning!  The landscaping workers didn't show up...  I was merrily sleeping away at 7:15 and woke up in a start, because it was still quiet outside.....  I listened intently, but no wafting Spanish conversation, even in the distance...

Loyce got up and looked out the front window of the house and declared that we were workerless....

Now perhaps they feel that they need to let the concrete dry for a complete day before they begin to wheel barrow that rock over it into the back yard...  And that's just fine with us, but wouldn't ya let the people know that?  Our cultures are very different though.

It was quite cool outside at only 92 and 50 percent humidity, so I headed off on a bike ride around the area here South of the Superstition freeway...  And then ended up in the construction office where our job foreman Todd has his desk... I was telling him about the instruction booklets left behind in the furnace.....  He claimed he had never heard of that one...  But odds are he has seen most everything possible...

But about lunch time we had an indication of good things to come, as the largest dump truck I have ever seen, dumped a pile of yard rock out in the street beside our back yard gate...  It covers almost half of the street......

Late in the afternoon, we decided to head back over to the Ikea store in central Phoenix and buy a small dresser and night stand for the guest bedroom...  We looked the other day, but didn't have the pickup with us to make the purchase.  We also got a TV table for the den here where I sit in a recliner while reading the internet...  We have decided that designer furniture for these small rooms isn't necessary, so Ikea will do fine....

The drawback to this is that you have all assembly required, as they come packaged in completely flat packages..  Basically completely flat boards with hardware and instructions....  But tonight as I have assembled a couple of the items, I was amazed to find real wood in most of the boards and not particle board...  Of course everything is fastened together with speed clips where you put in a stud and turn the fastener a half turn to grab the stud.  But it ends up solid so we aren't complaining especially at the much reduced price...

Perhaps we will hear some workers at 6 AM mañana........

Retired Rod