Both John and I were up nice and early this morning. It's amazing how easy it is to get out of bed when it starts to get light at 5 a.m. The days will continue to get longer and longer until the end of June.

John went with Matt and today they got the remainder of the trusses up as well as most of the sheeting on the roof. There is just a little more to be done tomorrow and the roof will be ready for shingles next week. Showers were in the forecast for today, but the weather was just about perfect for working outside.

I left the house a little before John as I had an 8:50 doctor's appointment in Bemidji. Today I saw Dr. Hatch, my arthritis doc as I call him. My thumbs have been very achy since I have been back in MN, so today he gave me a cortisone shot in my right thumb. He also sent me to have both hands x-rayed as I have been having some numbness in that thumb. Dr. Hatch wants to see what is going on--possibly a bone spur that needs to be removed. They set up an appointment with a hand specialist in Fargo just in case the problem is a spur. I can't get in to see him until the first week of July. Right now the shot is kicking in and the pain is just about gone. So maybe it's an easy fix.

After I got through at the clinic, I headed to the mall to check out some sales at JC Penny's and a couple of other stores. While looking through some tee shirts, the power went out in the entire mall. I waited around a few minutes, then decided to leave and go pick up some groceries at Wal Mart. When I got outside the mall, I noticed that the traffic lights and all electronic store signs were not working. What to do? I thought, well, it's almost lunch time, might as well stop at Burger King and see if they're operating and try to wait out the power outage. The only thing you could get at BK was any of their burgers--no fries, no pop, nothing else. Also, you had to pay with cash or a check. It was interesting to see how they kept operating without power. They wrote your order on pieces of paper and then ran them back to the prep area to be made. While I ate my burger, I thought I would wait 30 minutes, and if the power didn't come back on, I would head back to Bagley and come tomorrow to get groceries. The 30 minutes were just about up when the lights came back on. Yippee!!! I could get all my errands done today. I returned to the mall to purchase one of the tee shirts that were on sale and then headed down to Wal Mart and did the grocery shopping. I finally made it home by late afternoon.

John worked a long day and didn't get home until after 6 p.m. so that made eating supper a little later than normal. We spent the evening watching a little TV before heading off to bed.