Tuesday, June 12th, 2018…… Today
started out cloudy and drizzly but cleared up pretty quickly. Tim & Dana
worked more on getting the approach pad ready for the pour. They laid the rebar and finished setting the
pour forms. That pour is scheduled for
Thursday. I finally made the decision to have them add material and labor (should
be around $1200.) for the second guest pad. Rather than a cement pad (@$2800.) I
went with the compacted ¾ stone and stone dust, which will hold the weight of
any rv should we ever have the need to park more than one guest. I won’t have
30-amp there until way down the road but I have been using the 20-amp circuit
for my rig which is parked next to the pad now with no worries. Dana will order
the rock delivery for tomorrow. The garage door guy is still on his job and won’t
be available until Monday, which means he can run his scissor lift over the new
concrete with no problems. My sister spent the night with Quincy so we could
see how sleeping arrangements would go. We gated our bedroom door (it never
gets closed) so monkey butt couldn’t get out if/when she got off the bed (she
didn’t). But after all day here with both dogs, sis has decided that Quincy
should spend the nights in her own house. Rylee is just too anxious to play and
she bothers Quincy almost all the time. Daisy will go to her house and take her
to the river or the canal or bring her back here but she will sleep there. We
also divided and conquered today. Penny and I tackled the blueberry weeding and
Lydia worked on her backyard flower bed weeding. We each got about 3/4s
finished before we called it for the day. While we were resting, sis got some
more news. Her ex sister-in-law, Paula, who lives in Bend, said she is
available to come stay at her house for at least a few days. That means that Daisy will only have one dog
to look out for as long as Paula is here. She can go over and walk with them to
learn the area for when Paula leaves. Good news! Penny left a little while
later and I went out and started my own project – I am transferring the existing
flagstones in the guest pad area to various places around the yard. Some went out front to give us access to
water, or across the flower beds to the lawn. Most of them went back behind the
workshop for use down the road. I got four wheelbarrows of stones moved before
I called it for the day. Lydia did go
back out and pulled some more weeds, but she gave up after a bit and we came in
and watched America’s Got Talent before we went to bed.
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018…… Rylee
got me up early wanting her chew toy. That settled her down for 30 minutes and
by then I was ready to get up and feed her. I got showered and going. Lydia
volunteered to make egg sandwiches which I took time to enjoy before I went to
work. Today Tim & Dana got a delivery of rock and went to work on my second
guest pad. Tim used the bucket on his tractor for the rest of the flagstones
and we got those moved in a couple of trips. They got another load of rock later
and by the end of the day, it was done!
I told Tim I wish I had made the decision to do that at the beginning of
the project because I could have parked my coach there and it would have been
out of the way for everything. I do remember how wet it was so maybe they
couldn’t dig the site. Oh well, it’s good to go now. I also managed to remove
the tire and wheel from the Husqvarna tractor so I could check it for leaks.
Yep, can’t see it but I hear it. I will get it up to the Les Schwab tire store
in town and see if they work on mower tires. If not, I think Coastal Farm and
Ranch has them. I just don’t want to change the tube myself! We did take a break and took off to go to
Sweet Home. We needed to hit Dollar General for a new cell phone case for me
and I needed to go to the Elks Lodge to correct my address. For some reason,
they retained the old Calif. address on file and I just got the June newsletter
re-routed from the Calif post office! They didn’t open until 3:00pm so we went
to DG. They have a closeout sale on these cell phone cases and they are out. We drove back through Brownsville to the DG
there. Same thing. When we got back home, I took one of Lydia’s old needles and
some thread and stitched it up until I can find one I like. We decided to stop
at the A&W drive-in in Sweet Home and we enjoyed a tasty ‘linner’. Later, we
had some cheese and crackers and that held us till bedtime.
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