Thursday, August 3rd, 2017…..
Even though it’s been hot up here this week, the mornings always start
out nice – in the 50s. So I put on long pants and boots and headed out early to
the back of the property to weed whack some of the area on the other side of
the creek. The ‘creek’ is really just an
empty gully that you can step over right now but we’re told it can fill up
pretty full come rainy season. I did about 100 feet and said that was enough
for the day. My sister finished up her
weeding project in the blueberry cage.
It looks great now! I changed
back to shorts and sandals and cut up cardboard for the recycle bin when the DirecTV
guy came. I pretty much had the living
room tv all hooked up. Ken ran cable to my
office, the guest room, our bedroom, and the craft room. I had a new dish on the install order so
since the house already had one, I had him put it on the workshop plus wire it
for a tv out there. I still have one box
in the motorhome and I will keep it in there until I get everything watched and
then will use it in the workshop plus it will go back and forth to the rig when
we travel. The box in Lydia’s craft room will be used in the rig as well. All
of that work took the better part of the morning and even though I didn’t do
any of it, I was tired! Hey, supervising is hard work! As Oregon residents now,
we have the Portland feed via DirecTV and can see the news here now instead of
the feed from LA that we had been getting. Later in the day, Gina and Paula
came to visit. Paula is Penny’s ex sister-in-law. Her and Gina retired from
SoCal (police and fire depts.) and moved up to Bend. They, and their dog Morgan, were on a mini
trip to the beach at Newport for a few days and stopped by on their way home. We
showed them our place and we visited for a while. Then Penny took them by her place
before they headed back over the Cascades.
Meanwhile, we are pretty much staying in the a/c in the house! I worked
on the last of the boxes for the office while Lydia put away things in the
master bedroom and closet. I did go out
to the rig for a bit to take a break.
The coach has a/c but it was so hot in there that running it now
wouldn’t do any good. I just turned on a
couple of fans and kicked back and watched tv for a couple of hours. Lydia fixed a teriyaki pork roast for dinner
and we kicked back for the evening. She did go out and add 5 more flags for the
new flower bed plan. We’re up to 55 now!
Friday, August 4th, 2017….. Today I set out to do more weed whacking. I got out to the workshop and started
straightening things up and stayed there instead. I put some of my saw tables
back together and moved some things out of boxes. Still a lot of work to do in there! The steel
shelving unit that I put together yesterday got moved into place.
It’s one of four I plan to assemble across
the south wall. Unfortunately since it’s
got beams that attach to the previous upright I can’t load anything until I get
the other ones bought and installed. All
I need is money! But no hurry right
now. Penny worked on cleaning up dead
grass in the flower beds and I picked up all of the stuff she cleared out of
the blueberry enclosure. Then it got
hot! I was planning on mowing this
morning but I couldn’t because the grass was still wet (sprinklers go off at
4:00am). I’ll probably have to learn to
turn them off the night before! While we
were outside, Lydia worked on the last of the master bedroom boxes so that is
now done. We also did work on hanging pictures. I had one bracket that needed a little trimming so the hanger could go over it. I actually had to use a dremel tool to cut It.
But soon we were done. It is starting to now look like
a home!
Later, I watched Mecum auctions I
taped this morning and also talked a bit to Treasa who is in Ohio, visiting
their kids and grandson. They will hit
the road pretty soon to make their way back to Calif. I said goodbye as Lydia called me into dinner. She fixed bbq pork ribs, w/baked potato and
string beans. Yummy! Afterwards, I went
back to work breaking down Lydia’s empty boxes and also unpacked a few more in
the shop before coming in for the night.
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