Tuesday, July 24th, 2018…… I slept in this
morning. I guess I was still tired from fishing yesterday! No plans today. It
was going to be really hot today. Lydia
did go out and pull some more weeds but I made her stop after a bit and come in
for the morning. I picked up her stuff
and she enjoyed the a/c and a nice cold glass of water. Kirk came by this
afternoon and spent some time working on the flower beds. We’ve decided to have
him work for us on a regular basis, twice a month, to help keep the flowerbeds
under control. Later, Lydia went back out and worked for another hour – until
Kirk left for the day. He cleaned up their work and Lydia came in and cleaned
up. I had decided that I was going to take her out to dinner tonight – her
choice. But she couldn’t decide when we set out. So, I chose The Depot for
seafood. She said that was a great choice. We had a nice meal and headed home
to work on the sprinkler systems. I have all of the 8 zones on the main system
and the 3 zones west of the driveway on timed programs. I can override them to choose
whichever ones we need to see. We concentrated on the flowerbed’s irrigators
rather than the lawn rainbirds. We went through each of those zone by zone and
identified the ones that needed adjustment and/or repairs, plus we found some
areas that we need to add sprinklers to. Rylee has decided to chew the ones she
can find so some of those were in need of repair. I have to go get more
material but at least we have a start now.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2018…… The weather will be
hot again today. We had no real plans so we decided to go to Coastal Farm and
Ranch. We needed to exchange one of the cushions on the newly bought front
porch chairs. One of them has a burn spot that we can’t explain, other than we
got it that way and just didn’t notice it. Coastal was very understanding and
with very little explanation, exchanged it with another one from their display.
The manager said they would just put a huge markdown on that set to sell it. We
then stopped at Arby’s for lunch – for me – Lydia had eaten just before we
left. Then we drove down to Corvallis to Garland’s Nursery. That’s where Kirk and Lydia got the plants
that he put in last season. Some of them
weren’t doing too well so she wanted to ask for some advice. Kirk also
transplanted three red leafed shrubs from my sister’s house. They have gone dormant. The nursery expert
told Lydia to scrape the bark and see if it’s green at any point. She thinks when Kirk took them out, he didn’t
get enough of the root ball that they needed to survive here. We’ll get to that
tomorrow. On the way home, we heard from my sister. Her friend, Marlyn, is
arriving in Portland and shuttling down to Albany today. She was going to pick
her up and they were going to dinner. Since I just ate, we came home and Lydia
went off to meet them at Ixtapa. Afterward, Penny took Marlyn back to her place
and she got settled in there. After a bit they came by so Penny could show her
our place and we could sit out with us on the porch and visit for a while.
Plans are in place for a few things to see and do while she’s here. More on
that later. Afterwards, we watched a few more of our taped ‘watch together’
shows before calling it a night.
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