31F with light snow @ 13:30, calling for a high of around 36F for the day. Looks like we got a few inches overnight:
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Definitely a far cry from what it was yesterday, glad I got the feeders filled. A couple of pictures of that fallen ash from when I was out there doing that:
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Woman opted not to make the run to the grocery store yesterday, sounds like She is regretting that now today.
So I got all cleaned and gussied up and we headed out for the Big Date Night ...
down at Menards ...
Woman wanted to know what I had up my sleeve, as I had put on really nice clothes ...
Backstory on that is that when I'm working and running out to the store for something I rarely care what I look like or how I'm dressed. I'll wear rags as long as the holes aren't too big and there isn't anything hanging out. Drives her nuts.
So She "suspected something was up".
Truth was I was just getting one more wear out of the jeans and shirt I had worn out to dinner the week before before I tossed them in the dirty clothes to be washed.
Got everything we went for ... including a stick of mahogany, red oak, and maple. Also got a couple items that weren't really on the list: pantry moth traps and some bug traps for house plants that I spotted.
After we left Menards, I suggested we head over to Alladin's Eatery - a restaurant we spotted last week when we went out for relatives birthday dinner - and She was game.
Glad we did.
Turns out it was a chain of Lebanese restaurants that was started 1994 in Lakewood, OH and has expanded throughout the Midwest and Southeast.
On the way over, I suggested that once we got there, we order an appetizer and look over the menu while deciding whether we wanted to eat in or just get take out and go home.
We ordered some kibbe to start, which She decided She really liked and we decided to just go ahead and stay for dinner.
I got the Alladin's Favorite Combo plate which had kafta, shish kabob, and shish tawook, and She got Chicken Sambusek plate ... which She really liked as well. Even cleaned up her entire plate ... which is something that almost never happens.
We ordered a piece of Turtle Cheesecake to take with us for desert, which was good ... but not quite as good as the cheesecake we had at Bonefish Grill the week before.
Turns out this place had been there since 2014 and we had never noticed it ... probably due to poor signage illumination.
Think we'll definitely be heading back at some point in the future, looking forward to trying their Baba Gannouj next time.
All in all, a great trip with lots of laughs.
Got the DVD player hooked up after we got home and watched the 2nd Harry Potter movie ... after I gave the disc a quick cleaning with some rubbing alcohol.
After that She went to bed but I ended up staying up to the wee hours scoping out YouTube's on router tables and doing a little research on those.
Agenda for the rest of the day today:
Dig out the new razor blades and get Her started on cleaning tiles off.
Fire up the torpedo heater out in the garage and cut up the wood for the holder for the Forstner bits and maybe get that glued up.
Finish cleaning off the router table and take further stock of what needs to be done to get that refurbbed. Looks like the top panel on the back needs replaced, along with the top itself.
Clean out the bottom of the cavity in the wall where I removed the tile and wallboard.
See what we have in the way of thinset and grout.
Maybe take another stab at removing those stubborn seats in the tub/shower valve. Thinking about ordering a drill chuck with adapters that would allow it to be used on the battery-operated impact and/or my 3/8 drive butterfly impact. I could then cut the seat wrench so it could be chucked up and used.
The seats are only brass ... so would need to go easy on them to avoid tearing them.
More research to do on that.
Hope everyone is having a good Sunday ...
