August 6, 2017

The internet worked OK enough for email's this morning, so that's what I did. Writing this now, it's a bit of a blur where the day went. Danny and Susan walked over to Martin Valley, and B&S and ourselves walked around town again. We went to go to the gift store, but she had closed up for the day. So we went through "Nearly Normal Norman's" emporium with Norman. We had not been in before and it was a real kick. First, the building is built on a slant. We all thought the slant was due to "decay", but no, it was built that way on purpose - the building is solid. Norman has been living there full time for 30 years, and was initially hired to do cleanup there. So he "cleaned up" a lot of junk and just saved it!

We walked through the entire building as he gave us the "extra" tour. There was a fisherman from Idaho who kept his boats in "the ways" and was living upstairs. There were a couple full bathrooms and showers. He also showed us the kitchen area. Norman had done a bunch of work on the building over the years including putting in sliding glass doors and windows.