Thursday, October 18th, 2018…... Not
much on the agenda for today. I did my usual street walk with Rylee. My sister
was here and had Quincy out in the field at the same time and snapped a couple
of long-distance shots of us walking…
I ran a few errands but for the most
part it was just hanging around the house and not doing much. We had two frosts
a couple of weeks ago and it looks like it wiped out a few shrubs and one small
tree. Lydia thinks it’s in the honeysuckle/jasmine family. The leaves are all
black now and it looks dead. I cleaned up the first bunch of leaves and we’re
watching it closely now. The grapes are also wiped out. But it’s end of season
so I should be able to trim it back and it should be fine for next season. I
have two battery-operated irrigation timers out in the islands and one in the
blueberry cage that I will need to bring in soon. Last year I had some out
there and they froze and cracked and I want to save these from that fate.
Lydia is feeling a little better.
Between the shingles relapse (no rash this time – just nerve pain in that area)
and her diverticulitis, she has been suffering but with the antibiotics she’s
on, it’s getting better each day.
We ate a light dinner and settled in
to watch our programs and then called it a night.
Friday, October 19th, 2018…... Nothing planned for today and Lydia was doing ok, so we
decided to take a car ride and head up to Salem for the Home Improvement Show
at the fairgrounds. We didn’t leave until about 11:15am so we fed Rylee early.
It didn’t say dogs were allowed so we didn’t take her. We got up there about
noon or so and parked at the entrance. We saw the entry sign but it said that
they weren’t going to be open until 3:00pm today. Bummer! We had previously heard
about it on the radio and they didn’t give hours. I checked the fairgrounds
website but didn’t dig deep enough to check if hours were posted. Oh well, we
will have to go another time. We headed back and stopped at a new Home Goods
store in Salem and picked up a few things we were looking for. We decided that,
on the way back home, we would go past a house in the Salem area that we had
looked at back in January (2017) when we came up to check out winter in the NW.
We only drove by back then but we had seen pictures of the inside layout on the
web, and it looked promising. It had 4 acres and a nice red barn and was tucked
away in a nice little community on Pudding Creek Rd. out in the country. Problem
was we weren’t ready to seriously look at that time. But it would have been a
contender had it been available when we came back in May to buy. We drove down
the street and then turned around and stopped out front. The lady was leaving
and stopped and walked up to our car to see what we were doing there (now that
wouldn’t happen in SoCal!). We quickly assured her we weren’t stalking her,
just that we had an interest in the house back when and that it really looked
good since they moved in. They had painted the barn and added an rv structure
to the end of it, like we would have done. We continued on home but stopped at a bazaar
in Lebanon that two ladies have every year. They make crafts and Lydia bought
some of these homemade Oregon items to give as presents to her lunch ladies when
we head south to California. We finally got home and rested until we left to go
meet my sister at Tony’s Tacos for dinner. They were celebrating their first anniversary
and combo plates were half price. Penny has befriended the owner and they were
nice enough to give her and I Tony’s baseball caps. Very cool. The dinner was
excellent and we went home full. Later, Penny came by and dropped Quincy off
for a sleepover. She was leaving early tomorrow with her friend Janice, to go
to Salem and hit a flea market and then the outlet mall. Quincy has no issues
with being at our house, unless you call being constantly pestered by the
monster mutt an issue! But they do eventually settle down and have figured out
sleeping arrangements. Quincy uses the guest room and Rylee sleeps with us so
everyone gets a good night’s sleep.
Saturday, October 20th, 2018…... I
got up right at 7:00am with a nose in my face telling me it was time! I let
both dogs out one at a time and then fed Rylee. Quincy has her walk, then eats
breakfast so I followed that routine. I
follow the same example that my sister does. Quincy walks and runs around in
the west forty and does her business. We finished that walk and I signaled to
Lydia to ‘release the kraken!’ and Rylee runs out and harasses Quince until she
will run and play with her. Once they are tired, I bring them in and feed
Quincy. Then I took off to go to Linda’s estate sale. She works for a service
that handles your entire estate sale. They come in, sort through and set out
everything and mark it for the 3-4-day sale. They have staff (like Linda) who
takes money and keeps track of everything. I got there and parked way down the
street. This was a seven-acre property with barns and sheds and tons of stuff.
Problem was everything was in terrible shape and all of it was overpriced. Even
when they have the last day sale and mark everything at ½ price, it was still
too high. I passed on everything and came home. Then we set out to clean up the house a bit because
Penny, Linda, and Chuck were coming over later for dinner. Lydia went to the
store and got everything she didn’t have to make lasagna. Penny brought the
salad and Linda brought an apple pie. We had a nice meal and set around and
relaxed. The Dodger game was on so we kept an eye on that throughout the
evening. The Dodgers scored mid game and held on to take the win. They will now
go against the Red Sox in the World Series starting Tuesday. It was a nice evening!
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