Monday, August 13th, 2018…… This morning it was back to
normal – Rylee got us up at 5:15am to get up on the bed. Even though she does
settle down and sleeps for a bit it still cuts up our sleeping time. Ok, so now
we get up and going! Lydia fed her and I showered and walked her. We ate in
this morning and then I went out and weed wacked some of the areas prior to
mowing. Lydia went out to pull more weeds. I had to wait until the grass dried
out a bit but I was able to get going on the tractor about 9:00am I had
everything pretty much wrapped up by 10:00am. I came in and rested and then
went out to help Lydia a bit. Later, I went back out with the catcher and got
all of the clippings scooped up and dumped. As I was finishing up, she ended up
getting everything done and we cleaned up all of her mess and called it a day.
We were done by noon. Good thing – it started getting hot about then. The
weather is getting warmer again and this week we expect temps in the mid to
upper 90s. We heard from Mike that they will be at the Columbia River Gorge
later today. They are still around 300 miles or so from us so it will be
tomorrow afternoon before they arrive here.
We also heard from Frances that she will be flying up here later in the
month – that’s good news - but Raymond won’t be coming up with her. Bummer – we
so wanted to see him again! After all of our yard work today, we showered
and relaxed for the rest of the evening.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018…… I got going early
this morning. Rylee didn’t even have a chance to wake me up! I fed her,
showered, and then walked her. I went out to get breakfast but before I did
that, I stopped by my sister’s and helped her disassemble one of her recliners.
She had a squeak in it that we couldn’t fix so she called and they will take it
back on exchange. She wanted to put it in her car so we needed to take it
apart. I got her loaded and she left for pickle ball and I went to get
something to eat to take home. We spent the rest of the morning cleaning up
around the house. Kirk was supposed to come today to work and to drop off the
tractor. He called and will be coming tomorrow. In addition to finishing up the
right side island, we plan on asking him to cut the weeds down that are way on
the back of the property, on the other side of the creek bed. He’s got a mega
string trimmer blade that looks like it could cut down a tree! He can have
Caleb do his thing out there and they can get it all knocked out pretty
quickly. Yaaayyy! Did I mention I hate yardwork! Later, Mike
and Cheri got here. They had a nice drive and made good time. Turns out they
left at the crack of dawn! I got them hooked up on the new rv pad and they
settled in
and then came in and
relaxed with us for a while. Suzie, their 11-year-old dog, had some issues with
monster puppy. Rylee wants so much to play but Suzie won’t have any of it.
We needed to hang
around the house until the garage door guy showed up. It got so late and we had
skipped lunch so I texted my sister and she volunteered to come house-sit so we
could go eat. We hit Pizza Schmizza but we all had sandwiches. We are going to
take them to Coburg Pizza in the next day or so, so we didn’t want to eat it
twice. While we were gone the garage door guy showed up. Corey went to work and
quickly found the problem and fixed my garage door. It was a circuit board in the motor. He also
serviced the rest of the door parts. I’ll get the bill probably tomorrow and
won’t like it but, hey it’s fixed now! Yaaay
again! After dinner, we all sat around
and watched tv for a bit then they called it a night and went out to their rv
to catch up on their sleep. I watched tv for a while longer and then called it
a night myself.
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