Norris Family Blog

Visiting Koala Ridge

Saturday morning began with Linda fixing pancakes for breakfast, then Brent and I began working on the plastic dryer venting hose under the house. The crawl space is high enough that I can set upright, so it wasn't too bad to get under there to see what was wrong with the plastic dryer hose. We found there was a section of the hose hanging down that had become clogged with lint and then the humidity in the air discharged by the dryer had condensed and there was water in the hose blocking the air flow. To remedy the problem, I decided to replace the plastic hose with aluminum duct. We purchased the duct and some hanger straps, then returned to the farm to replace the plastic hose. I snapped the pieces of aluminum duct together and Brent pushed those pieces together to form the 22 feet of duct we needed to run from the dryer to the outside wall. Brent added the 90 degree elbow and I went upstairs to cut the length of duct we needed to connect the back of the dryer. The hardest part was getting the piece attached to the dryer and then sliding the dryer back to hook that piece to the rest of the ducting. Overall, it was only a couple of hours and we were done. Pauline fixed everyone BLTs for lunch and later in the evening Pauline, Brent, Julie, Stacey, Linda and I loaded into the truck and I drove to Byrdstown to meet several of our friends from IN for dinner at the Bobcat's Den Restaurant. We ordered soft drinks and then Bonnie & Donnie and Lana & Frank came in and set down with us. We all ordered our food, ate and then went to Bonnie & Donnie's cabin on Koala Ridge near Dale Hollow Lake. Susie & Gary were there along with their son, his wife and their two kids. We sat outside on the deck and had a few drinks and talked for a couple of hours. It was fun and over too quickly as Susie and Gary had to leave to light fireworks with their grandkids. Julie had went to sleep on the floor also, so we decided to leave for the farm around 9:45 PM. On the way home we had to drive through a sobriety check point and have my license and insurance card checked. Not a problem, so we came on home a little after 10:30 PM.

Sunday morning I fixed everyone omelets for breakfast, then we rode around the farm and let Daisy run along with us. Stacey, Brent and I watched the NASCAR race on the DVR while Pauline and Linda watched Julie play in the water on the back porch. PB&J left for Smith's Grove slightly after noon and we relaxed the rest of the day.