10/17/2022 – Every Monday a Monday Comes Around

Or so questions Quint on why that is. Humans titling days baffles him and Mom thinks maybe he’s on to something with that. Mom’s work week starts at o’dark-thirty Sunday mornings, unless she works overtime the days before. Monday is day two of her work week and not the Monday everyone else seems to dread (that would be on Sunday when half her coworkers don’t show up, yet again).

So Monday doesn’t hold the same weight, usually. But sometimes it does. Last Monday, we thought we’d be wrapping up our bathroom restoration. Mom was so excited all day but there was a delay. A wayward part, crucial to completion, roamed the highways and byways of the Midwest for ten days or so, before finally making its way to its new home. A contractor picked it up Saturday and hoped to install it today. Again, Mom was excited . . . for about an hour.

Dad has other plans, that being to take care of his health by getting a flu shot and another covid booster, and a few other things. And because Mom’s at work most of this week and the contractor has another job that actually has all its parts available, that wayward part of ours might as well take a tour of our fine town from the comfort of the bed of the contractor’s pickup truck for another few days. Completion plans are scrapped until later in the month.

C’mon now, you didn’t really think we’d have a working bathroom this year, did you? Oh, and Pia? You don’t have to hide behind the curtains this week.

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Editor’s Note: As of 5:oo PM last night (Sunday 10/16) we are under a Level 1 Fire Evacuation Alert due to nearby wildfire. We have cat carriers and supplies ready just in case. Our cats and our lives are more important than this house full of stuff we may need to leave behind/or lose. We don’t think we’re in danger but you just never know. More info as things develop, or not develop.

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2021 – No post
2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018 – What’s Up Wednesday
2017 – No post
2016 – Sunny Days with Sunny
2015 – No post
2014 – Flashback Friday
2013 – No post
2012 – The Big Scritchy-Scratchy Whodunit