Friday, June 29th, 2018…… Now
that we have sort of caught up on our sleep, we finished up a few things around
the house. Daisy and Penny came by and we spent time playing with Rylee.
Daisy and her got along so well. We drove up to Silverton to see the Oregon
Gardens. I've talked about this place before, but if you didn't know,
it's a large complex, owned by the city of Silverton, designed to control water
distribution to the valley. It has has massive areas covered with hundreds and
hundreds of different specimens of trees and plants. We took the tram tour then
walked around the place for a bit.
We finally got the name of our
cedar plant just off the front porch.
Later, we went out to
dinner. We wanted to do something for Daisy to thank her. We went to
The Point just outside of Sweet Home. It’s one of our favorite
places to eat and Daisy liked it as well. Afterward, we went back to
the house and sat out on the porch and relaxed and had a few
drinks. They left and we settled in for the night. We’re
still trying to catch up on our sleep and get back on schedule. I know Rylee
misses her Daisy but she sure does love having Grammy and Grampy back home
again!
Saturday, June 30th, 2018…… Today,
Daisy had her flight back home. She
lives in La Mirada and flew here from LAX.
Her flight back is straight through and leaves in the afternoon. So, we left early and drove to Coburg Pizza
for lunch. Daisy liked it and it is our
favorite so it was a treat for us too! We then went over to Walt’s Ice Cream, and
Daisy treated us to cones. Thanks Daisy!
We got her to the airport and said our goodbyes and headed back
home. It was a lazy day with nothing
much planned. I know I had stuff taped
that I wanted to start on. Lydia lounged around and watched tv as well. We didn’t
eat dinner since neither of us was hungry after pizza.
Sunday, July 1st, 2018…… It turned out to be a typical Sunday for
us. Get up, walk Rylee, feed Rylee, play
with Rylee, rest, repeat. We found that we really needed a day just to do
nothing. It was nice and quiet. Plus, Rylee got a lot of play time.
Monday, July 2nd, 2018…… Today we really had to go to grocery
shopping. Prior to leaving on the trip,
we had left Daisy with plenty of food to last her through the week. It worked
out great and we spent the last few days eating what was left so it was
definitely time to hit Walmart. After
getting that done, I went out to clean up some stuff in the shop. I also got
out my Stihl and weed whacked some of the area around the grapevines and apple
trees. Later, after catching my breath, I got out the gas lawnmower and walked
it around the grape stumps and apple trees.
Boy, that’s more than I want to do at a time! I took a break and went
out later and raked it up. I still
needed to clean up around the water pipes so I could set up the timer to the
irrigation line that goes out to the blueberries. I got that going and was done
with yard work for the day. We worked around
the house, just straightening up a little and that was it for the day. We each ate a late lunch so we didn’t fix
dinner tonight. Then it was more catching up on taped programs for each of
us.
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018……
Today was lawn day! I got up and walked Rylee and checked out the
grass. Unfortunately, I didn’t shut off
the sprinklers yesterday so it was still pretty wet and I would have to wait
until later. I went out and got breakfast and tea and watched tv for a
bit. Then I went out and got the black
tractor started and did the west side of the driveway. I then made a round trip around the house and
parked it and went and got the orange tractor out. I wanted to try it since the last time we
used it, my sister had smoked it out and the belts were slipping. I started out slowly and everything worked
fine. No issues. I kept going and did the outside of the lawn area (out by the
street). Lydia jumped on the black mower and finished the lawn. Then we both set out to do the field grass
area out behind the lawn. It took about
2 hours for both of us to do everything!
Not bad and the tractor worked perfectly! I’m thinking that my sister just went too
fast when she was mowing and got the driveshaft and pulleys and belts too
hot. Going slower worked for me and mows
better as well! I’m still planning on
getting the tractor in for service and new belts. We were done for the day and
planned on going back over it tomorrow with the catcher to get all of the
clippings. Lydia went to pick up a prescription and then we ate a late lunch so
we skipped dinner again tonight.
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