Thursday, November 8th, 2018…... Today is Lydia’s appointment for her annual
physical. But not until this afternoon. So, I spent some time hanging around
the house and getting my checkbook in order. Then I headed out to work for a
few hours on my shelving units. Of course, I do have to get the pooches out now
and then. I took a few pics of the dogs together out playing in the field. The
first one is in the west forty and they are ‘hunting’ field mice! The other two
show them resting after running in the yard. It’s nice to have the space for
that. I think Quincy has finally accepted the attention that Rylee ‘bestows’ on
her. She actually wants to initiate the playtime every now and then.
Lydia is feeling about the same. So,
Dr. Simmons had a chance to examine her closely and see her tenderness firsthand.
Not much surprise to find she’s in discomfort when the colon is irritable and
tender! Her UTI is almost gone now and her lab numbers looked good, so we just
need to get that colonoscopy completed to see what is going on. That happens in
a few weeks. Turns out it will be a consult so the Dr. is going to see if he
can hurry that along. We did find out last week that our United Health Care
Supplement HMO insurance plan won’t be available next year here in Oregon. I
guess they don’t have that many retired Boeing folks here. The two choices are
Kaiser and UHC Senior Supplement PPO Plan. We won’t go to Kaiser so we only
have the PPO to choose. It will cost more for that one but we won’t have to
change doctors. We like our primary care physician and Lydia likes her
Nephrologist.
Before our appointment, we took my
sister back to her house. She had some things to bring back and she’s wanting
to try a night there by herself. We will still keep Quincy so she can settle in
and be ‘home again’. We did go over and get her to go out to dinner. She wanted
to treat us. We went to The Point and had a really nice meal. We dropped her
back home and came home to let the dogs out for a while. Then it was tv and
relaxing until bedtime.
Friday, November 9th, 2018…... Rylee got us up a little earlier that we wanted this morning
(after already waking me up at 12:59am to let her out to potty!). I fed Rylee
and walked Quincy and then fed her. We are definitely changing into winter
here! It was cold enough last night and this morning for frost to be on the
ground. Here are before and after of those same shrubs I took pics of only last
month. Now no leaves and no color!
I went and got us breakfast/coffee/tea and then went back out again to head to Albany and Home Depot/Lowe’s to find a light sensor for that garage security light I had been working on. I found that Lowes carries one but they were out of stock. Salem shows they have 12 so I will stop there next week when my sister goes for her next appointment. Once I got back home, I spent a little time digging out the Christmas cards from our garage. We need to get the package ready to mail to Janie, who will distribute at the next Camping Squares (Christmas) campout. That comes up the first weekend in December, which is coming soon. We also did the other ones but will hang on to those to mail in December. But, hey, they are all done already! At the request of her doctor to have an annual mammogram, Lydia went to our local imaging center to sign a release form for her records from her last mammogram from down south. They have her on schedule for December for that scan. On the way home, she stopped and got Penny and brought her back to the house for dinner. She had a chicken and dumpling mix in the crockpot since early this morning. It was really yummy! We took Penny back home and came back and settled in for the evening to watch our taped shows. I went out to the motorhome and watched a taped Nascar race because I had other things going on my recorder in the house. While I was there, I caught the SoCal news about the fires and evacuations going on. Devastating! Sure wish we could give you some of our cooler weather!
Saturday, November 10th, 2018…... Nothing
on the agenda for me today. I did my doggie routine and then and did my
breakfast/tea/coffee routine. Lot’s of routines here! Later, Lydia left to go
help Penny run some errands. She needed to go get meds plus she needed
groceries. She’s going to stay at home now. I have Quincy but I think we can
get her back over there later today so she can be back ‘home’ too. I will plan on going there each morning to
walk her, for at least the next week. She’s looking to get the ok from her
doctors to be able to walk Quincy on her leash. Even if she doesn’t, she can
still bring her over and let her go off leash here for her walks/runs. Lydia got back and was pretty pooped from
her morning out. So, she kicked back for the day. I was hoping the sun would come out for the
day and dry the lawn some more. It hasn’t rained here for a few days and that
sunny day helps the soggy sections dry out. The sun finally came out around 11:00am
and I waited until about 2:00pm or so to get the mower out and got the lawn started.
I only got the west side of the driveway done. I had to stop because I was
putting some deep ruts in the grass because it was still too wet. Plus, when I
put the rake attachment on the tractor and then ran it over the lawn to pick up
the clippings, I got more ruts. But I got that part of the job done at least.
Just the main lawn to do now. The field grass is still good so I won’t have to
do that section. We have rain forecast for Wednesday but sunny days after that.
I need to get that one more cutting done!
If it follows the same pattern as last year, this probably will be it
for mowing for the season. I didn’t want Lydia to cook tonight but she wants
spaghetti for dinner and while she was out today, she bought bread and sauce - so
we cooked. While she started dinner, I fed the dogs and then took Quincy home
and then came home and we binge-watched 4 episodes of Guys Grocery Games and
then we went on to watch our own taped shows until bedtime.
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