Monday, February 19th, 2018…... First
off, both of us did ok last night. We’re
not sure what to make of our being ill.
But we’re doing fine now….
I got up and
checked to see what last night’s weather brought us. The report says sunny and
cold but it’s cloudy and we can see small snowflakes coming down. I got a call
this morning from Dana, updating our job status. Their concrete guys have a big pour to do,
then she says we’re next on their list, so depending on the weather, they could
be here this week. Yaay! I showered and got dressed with the idea that
we would go shopping this morning. Lydia
reminded me she was going to do her labs this morning. Then I remembered that it was President’s Day
and she should check to see if they are even open today. She decided to wait until tomorrow and had
breakfast. So, we decided to take a drive to Corvallis and get the car washed.
Note – there aren’t too many full-service car washes up here in the northwest –
you know, the ones who have the staff to vacuum and clean the inside of your
car. Most everything here is drive-thru
style. The drive thrus up here do have
an attendant, who, at the beginning of the wash, brushes the front and back of
your vehicle to knock off the worst of the dirt before you drive through the
system. It works but we look forward to
someone putting a nice full service one in up here closer to us. After that, we
stopped for lunch at Taco Bell. While we
were there, I got a call that our taxes were ready for pickup back in Lebanon. We drove over to Albany on the way back and stopped
by Kohl’s so Lydia could pick up a few items before her coupons ran out, then
we headed home, stopping by the tax office to pay and get our paperwork. Good
news / bad news - turns out that our tax lady found enough write-offs from our
house transactions that we didn’t have any capital gains to pay on (wheew!),
but we did still owe on the federal and Calif. state return. We get a refund from Oregon though, so that
helps a bit. They did an estimated
return for next year and if the “Tax Act” and “Jobs Act” go into place, we
would get a hefty refund. Once home, we settled in for the day. Lydia stripped our bed and did that laundry
while I set the files up to be ready to pay the two tax bills. We’ll go ahead
and pay the federal now but will wait until we get the Oregon refund before we
pay Calif. That lessens the pain a bit….
Tuesday, February 20th, 2018…… This
morning we got up early and got ready for our day. I dropped Lydia off at our drs. office for
her labs. My sister picked her up from
there and they headed up to Salem for Penny’s reconstruction consult. They were going to have lunch and then hit a
mall for some shopping. I stopped by a
fast food place and got breakfast and then did my habitat thing, driving to the
Albany and Corvallis Habitat for Humanity stores just to check out new
arrivals. I’m not looking for anything
in particular but I like to see what comes in. Nothing from Habitat but I stopped at the
Goodwill in Albany - first visit - to see if our donations have hit that store
(not yet) and to check it out. I only bought an alarm clock and a magnifying
glass (total was $3.99). I made it home
after a bit and Lydia called later and asked if I was interested in meeting
them at the Sizzlers in Albany. They
have the steak and lobster special going. Sounded good to me! I was hungry! They
had some more shopping to do and would text when they were on their way. I ended up only being home a short time
before barely having time to go out and get the mail and use the restroom
before they texted. I met them and we
had a nice ‘linner’ and then split up and went home. We did stop at Safeway
because we’re hearing that there’s a storm coming in later tonight that will be
a bit colder and should bring some snow and we didn’t want to have to go out in
it tomorrow. We got some fresh veggies and bread (Lydia thinks it was the bread
we ate that got us sick so we dumped that) and headed home. We ended up having
some fruit and cookies and/or dark chocolate candy for a little dessert and
watched tv until bedtime. I woke up about 3:00am to get a drink of water and so
I checked the weather – nothing but clear skies.
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