Crazy

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Crazy was Originally Posted on December 3, 2011 by

To fix my water pipe (PVC), I bought 400 feet of 1 inch heavy black flexible pipe and pulled it down from my house, between the neighbors yards and down to the street below. While attempting to disconnect the old pipe, it broke at about the most inopportune spot (almost into the concrete holding the anti-backflow protector.

A trip to town didn’t help and I ended up driving into Kona to go to Lowes. I got the parts and finished up the next day. Then yesterday I headed up tom the water company to show them my invoice for the pipe. This will allow me to get a reduced price for water because of the break.

Then it was off to Sandras to cut meat for the co-op. She also had another order for a special coffee roast so I also took my roaster with me.

This morning, I was reading a local forum entry and realized that I have not applied for a special property tax level and filled out the paperwork. Knowing that we have a tax office in Captain Cook, I headed there, only to get there at 12:05pm and saw a sign that they close for lunch between 12 and 1pm. Rather than wait an hour, I headed into Kona to the official office, getting to the new, giant county office building I saw it all but deserted. It seems we are still closing county and state offices on “furlough Friday”. SIGH!

I went to COSTCO and had a very strange thing happen. All the urinals were in use and two of the touilet doors are closed. There is a guy standing aginst the wall awaiting a urinal. The handicap stall door is open and I head for that. As I pass the guy standing there, I notice a shopping cart with a small girl in it. I assume she is with the man standing there. As I get close to the open stall door I see a large local guy, standing there with his pants down. I now assume that the child may have been his and he kept the door open to ensure her safety.

In any event, while I am starting to turn away from the stall and await a urinal, the guy in the stall starts a string of profanities. Either he is crazy, or he has Touretts. I did not stick around to figure it out and decided I did not need to go quite as badly as I thought!

I do some shopping and head to Safeway for a few morre items. There I find many of my favorite frozen foods on sale and I stock up. On my way home I remember that recently I bought 80 pounds of chicken for the dogs and that has pretty much taken over the free space I have in the freezers. I also bought a couple of frozed pies that were very reasonbly priced. Out here, handmade pies and breads can be very expensive.

I got home with little time to get the tractor out and cut weeds I am very far behind with that project. Of course I have many other projects. My truck brakes need looking at, the stairs to the house and starting to rot through (due to a bad design of the overhang of the roof).

Still, I found time to blog a bit :-)