Thursday, November 9th, 2017…...
Today started out super early for me. It started yesterday in fact. My sister was out yesterday afternoon on the
second walk of the day for Quincy and she said there was water coming out of
the wellhead out in the west end of the property. I went out and found one of the 1 ½” fittings
coming out of the pump was cracked. I
got on the phone and called around and finally found a plumber who could come
out this morning. He had to go get a
fitting that he didn’t have in his van but went to work and dug down to
readjust the pvc pipe which was pushed off a bit by a tree root (which probably
put enough pressure on the fitting to crack it). That done, the new fitting went on and he was
done. He had to work in the rain and
wind so that was tough! Not cheap but
something I didn’t feel comfortable tackling myself. But there was a tiny
problem. It started when he drove his work van (his choice) out to the
site. He got stuck in the wet grass and
I couldn’t pull him out with my truck.
AAA won’t go off road onto fields with their vehicles. He ended up
calling his dad who has a four-wheel drive truck and he got him out. Back to
the job – he had to work in the rain and wind so that was tough! Not cheap but something I didn’t feel
comfortable tackling myself.
After the
plumber left, we decided to drive to Albany and run a few errands. We got back
and watched the rest of the CMAs we had taped.
We had had lunch in Albany (Arby’s) so we just nuked a couple of hot
dogs for dinner. We finished the night watching tv and working on the plans for
tomorrow.
Friday, November 10th,
2017…... We had one of those well patient home
visits this morning. Our new medical insurance here in Oregon is with United
Health Care and they have been calling us to get this set up. They wanted to go over our meds and make sure
everything was working well for us. We each
spent some time with the rep. (Emily) but she did talk more with Lydia, given
her history. It went well but took over two hours!...
That done, we
went about our day. We headed out to
Eugene to visit their Kohls. Lydia was looking for a particular brand of
jeggings and the Albany store didn’t have any. We got what we needed and then decided
to go to the show to see Murder on the Orient Express. But when we tried to park we couldn’t find a
space. School’s out and the mall was
packed! We will go back when it’s not so crowded. So we headed back home,
stopping at Harbor Freight to get an item that was on sale today. We also
stopped at Walmart to get stuff for tacos for dinner. We ate early and stayed in for the evening
and watched tv.
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