Tuesday, August 8th, 2017…..
This morning the girls decided to go shopping and explore downtown
Corvallis. I stayed home and put one of the two shelving units together for the
office. I also worked on my check book
Yuuuck! Once they returned and rested a bit it was off to tour the homes we had
looked at prior to buying this one. We
showed them the Leaburg home then drove over to Fir Butte and then on to Veneta
to show them those as well. We ended up
at Coburg Pizza for dinner. Both Penny and Maryanne liked both the pizza and
the desert pizza we ordered. On the way
home we stopped by our old campground.
We found Mike and Pat’s rig and knocked on their door and visited with
them for a while before heading home and crashing from the pizza and
desert! But we did get some nice shots
of the sunset from our back porch!
Wednesday, August 9th, 2017…..
Last day for Maryanne in the great Northwest! She had booked her 3:30pm flight for today
out of Portland. So she gathered up her
stuff and we spent the morning just talking about her time here. I think she gets what we are doing up
here. Not everyone will understand why
we made such a life changing move. Sometimes we question it ourselves, but we
always end up thinking we made the right choice. She gets that.
Today was
also when our sprinkler guy was coming back to work on the drip systems for our
flower beds. We hoped he would show up
early enough so we could get him going on all of the work while we took off to
the airport. He did and we were all able to make the trek to Portland. We drove for a while (about 60 miles) and
then stopped in Wilsonville for lunch and then made our way through Portland
traffic (sure don’t miss that!) and we got her there with plenty of time to check
in. We said our goodbyes and headed back through more traffic until we got well
clear of the outskirts. Once we got home we rested and then the girls went to
Taco Bell and brought back dinner while I stayed home and cut up most of the cardboard
boxes that I have accumulated from all the cabinets we have bought recently. Our trash pickup is on Thursdays so I wanted
to pack the container as full as I could and get it out tonight.
Thursday, August 10th, 2017…..
Lydia had a hair cut appointment this morning
and Penny went off to lunch with Aimee so I took off and went to Habitat for
Humanity to look for bolts for the floor standing bedroom oak mirror. We seem to have lost them in the move and they
are ornamental so I don’t want to use just any as replacements. No luck at any of the places I checked. I guess I just have to look closer in the
boxes I have left in the workshop! Today
was also landscaping day. Make that
planting day! Kirk made his trip to the nursery and brought a truckload of plants
and got them all in the ground today!
We are still
waiting for the irrigation guy to schedule the drip lines and sprinkler
repair/install. But since we have 75% of
the plants in now he can go from there.
Lydia gave
them a good watering
and we’ll see
tomorrow what the existing sprinklers will hit and where we need to add lines. Once
we were done, we came back in and rested and watched America’s Got Talent that
we had taped a few days ago.
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