We went out browsing this morning and found the perfect ice cream scoop for Suzy & Bill. Suzy has been looking for a scoop larger than the ones you can find on the market. We spotted this one in the Southern Picker's Antique Store and made a deal on it. It is a Gilchrist No. 31 scoop made between 1900 - 1926 when the company was in business. It is about 11" long and the mechanism works beautifully on it. The scoop measures 3"s across so it's like getting a regular dip and a half with this baby.
Thursday we went over to Austin so we could go to Sam's Club. Ugh, traffic was awful and we encountered a lot of road construction. The store was fairly easy to find, but our Tom-Tom maps aren't quite up to date so we got turned around a little. It wasn't a big deal, just a little detour.
Larry is the "Pool Guy" this summer. He does all the maintenance, cleaning, etc. 5 days a week between 8 a.m. - 10 a.m to open the pool and then 2 nights a week he takes care of all the chemicals and closes the pool. He's pretty well got the hang of it. One morning he was removing the Shark that cleans the bottom of the pool and over-reached a little and fell into the water. That was a little jolt he wasn't expecting. Then another morning, he was going around the pool to clean out the filter traps and encountered a small snake. He showed it to the manager and she called it a rat snake. The are water moccasins in the lake here and also 3 other poisonous snakes in the area: rattlesnakes, coral snakes and copperheads. Aren't we lucky? Texas has them all. Fortunately, I didn't see the critter or I would have been packing my bags to leave.
My bad knee (torn meniscus and Baker's cyst) continues to give me problems daily. Some days I can barely walk it seems. This fall when we get back to Mesa I will probably see about getting it fixed. Last winter I was dealing with too much to even have it looked at again. It's always something.
Until next time, enjoy your summer and stay healthy.
