Spoke with Mom this morning, and she does sound better... though she still hasn't been doing much, basically staying in her apartment except for going down to dinner.  Hopefully she will continue getting back her energy, and thus soon be zooming around to this activity and that before too long.

Work out back has commenced again this morning, though it's a toss-up as to whether or not they'll actually finish today.  Steve "heard" that irrigation will be cancelled because of last night's rain.... but we didn't seem to get very much, and of course there has been NO official word from Sue regarding any cancellation.  Pretty sure it's just wishful thinking on his part to give him more time to get the job done!  We're still holding him to his promise (!) to have it all done before Thursday!

This is the frame for the mesh 'lid'.

I'm looking forward to using the crank handle instead of my back 

to raise the baffle when it's time to let the water go!

  

Since most of what Steve has told us during this entire project has turned out to be BS, not sure I can believe him when he mentioned today that Dave Crawford (the original owner of our place, back in the 70s) was quite a celebrity on the motocross circuit back in the day (along with his cousin), and was friends with Evel Knievel... who reportedly hung out over here with them and rode around on our property.  

Here's Dave, #623, out in front in 1977

No sign of Alex yet.  Wondering how he "survived" the birthday partying Friday night, and if a hang-over interfered with his enjoyment of yesterday's event.  I've invited him to join me at Boot Camp again today, but he may decide to take it easy today before driving the RV back to California tomorrow.