Saturday, June 16th, 2018…… Lydia said she didn’t sleep well last night so
she went to bed early last night. I took a Benadryl and followed a little
later. I slept fine and she said she did too. But the white shadow was up and
rarin’ to go at 5:15am again! I took off
and got breakfast and coffee/tea and then after that spent some time outside
with Rylee, playing and checking out the grass to see if/when I could mow. I
think later this morning will be good. So, I went out and worked in the shop
and made Tim two fascia plates for the peaks of both the shop and the rv
garage. One’s for the rv garage and the other one replaces the one on the shop.
These get painted the accent color that’s around all the fascia on all of the
buildings. Lydia had mentioned that she
wanted to go bra shopping so we decided to do that today and I would mow this
afternoon. First stop was Kohl's in
Albany and they got close but not what she wanted so we decided to drive up to
Salem to Nordstrom’s. My sister was
coming by to work on the blueberry cage so we asked her to check on Rylee while
she was there. We went to the downtown mall which is shops connected by
skywalks so you don’t have to go outside (helps in the rain and cold winters).
We first went to Victoria’s Secret and still no luck. They also told us
Nordstrom’s had moved out. So, we hit Penney’s where I found some shorts that I
liked. No luck for her. We called sis and asked her to feed monster puppy and
walked over to Macy’s. There she got lucky and found what she wanted so she
picked up two for the trip. Now she knows what and where for next time. We got
back home and Penny had finished her work and was relaxing on the porch and was
ready to help with the lawn. I got both mowers out and fired up and she took
one and I took one and we started in.
Lydia relieved me and finished the lawn and Penny was out in the back field so I decided to go have a beer and rest.
It was short-lived though – the newly purchased 5-yr old tractor was having issues with the thick grass and was stalling out. I got it going while Lydia finished the lawn. I took the black mower and went out to help sis do the back field. We made great progress until her mower quit! It was smoking and the blades wouldn’t engage. So, we parked it in the shop and I finished up and we were done for the day. She left a little later and we fed Rylee and Lydia went to Taco Bell and got us dinner and we ate and then relaxed from our busy day!
Sunday, June 17th, 2018…… Happy Father’s Day! Lydia wanted to take me out to breakfast and
we left the house and went and picked up my sister and went to Apple Tree in
town. Thanks, sweetie, for the treat! Nothing planned for today so I went out
and looked at the tractor. It fired up
and so I took it out and tested the cutting system. It was engaging and working
fine. I cleaned it up and put it away. I think the belts are out of adjustment so
they won’t carry the load when they hit thick grass. That must have been what got them overheated
and smoking yesterday. I know the tractor has never been serviced (it was
filthy and caked with dirt and grass before I cleaned it) so I will do that
when we get back from our trip. But it’s good news that the whole system wasn’t
blown up! We both vegged out today and tried to stay cool. It hit 85º here
today so we didn’t want to do any more yard work. I got calls from both the
kids. We had a nice visit. Later, we were seeing on the news that there was a
storm coming down from the north and it was in Portland and they were getting
thunder and lightning and rain. The
skies to the north did get dark and about an hour later we got it all too. I’m
so glad that it doesn’t bother Rylee. She hears it and is startled but just
ignores it after the first one. Lydia fixed ground turkey and made a sort of taco
mixture but for burritos. It was really good. Later, we had a knock on the
door. Lou, our neighbor down the street was missing one of his little dogs who
took off running when the thunder hit. He said that he found him here in Walt’s
garage the last time that happened. We
checked everywhere around the place but no sign. He left to go check the other
neighbors. I walked with him for a while but we didn’t see him. He left to go
the houses on his other side to check there. I’ll stop by tomorrow to see if
they found him or not. We settled back
in and finished watching tv until bedtime.
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