This morning I was finally ready to admit that I would do no more kayaking before I leave on Wednesday, so the first chore of the day was cleaning the kayak and dragging it back into its winter home in the basement. Since winter is apparently due to start here later this week, my dad assigned me a few more chores:
- Run the weed-whacker until it's out of gas, and put it in the barn.
- Trade the roto-tiller for the snow-blower, moving the first to the barn and the second from the barn to the garage.
- Gas up the snow-blower, check the oil , and make sure it still works.
- Drag the canoe up into the barn loft.
- And while you're at it, add some air to the tires on the car.
However the ancient air compressor has sprung another leak (The first was patched a few years ago with a screw and some sort of goop resembling bubblegum) and has to be re-charged every couple of minutes. I convinced dad that we needed a new one, so off I went to Home Depot to view a confusing array of choices. I'm pretty sure we need something better than the $9.95 12V that plugs into the cigarette lighter, but probably not the $750 one that slices, dices, pounds nails, and weighs a half ton. Finally chose one for under $100 that i think will work fine for all of his various vehicles: Oldsmobile, 2 tractors, riding law mower, Big Red (3 wheeler), Jeep. There are probably more...
While in town I had a pleasant lunch with cousin Pat, and after visiting only four grocery stores, found one that carries chipotle en adobo. Most of the "Hispanic" sections in the stores here carry five different kinds of salsa, tortillas and taco shells, and that's about it. Gonna try a recipe for chiplote-spiced scalloped sweet potatoes (courtesy of the Hagley farm in Standish) tonight.
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