Friday, January 4th., 2019……We are both much better
today! I can actually speak! Still kind of croaky but much better! I got up
early and got showered and dressed and had Rylee out for our walk. The rains
are back but it wasn’t raining while we were out. I left later and got breakfast.
Meanwhile, Lydia was getting ready for her day. She had a nail appointment at
10:00am so she headed off for that. I
needed to sit down and pay some first of the year bills. For 2018, I only had
one more bill to pay, for Kirk for last month, and then I can wrap up the
year’s expenses. We started our new medical coverage this week. Boeing, our
provider, shut down the United Health Care HMO in Oregon and we had to move
over to the UHC PPO. The monthly rates went up so we have to adjust for that.
But we, like everyone else, got a slight increase in our Social Security this
year, so that helps a bit. We now have to make sure that we give our new cards
to the dr. so they can update their records. Our mail-in prescription service (OptumRx)
stays the same so that’s a good thing. We’re told we may even get a break in
those rx prices but we’ll have to wait and see when our prescriptions go in
again.
Even though the weather
was yucky, I went out with Rylee to the shop and worked out there for a while. Later, we just had leftovers for dinner and then
watched tv. Lydia spent time in her craft
room, catching up on some shows in that room. We have DirecTV but have opted
not to use Genie, where you have a master box and small slave boxes in other
rooms. With Genie, you can tape and watch in any room you choose. The reason we
don’t use that and have full size boxes in each room is that we want to take 1
(or 2) of those receivers to use when we travel in the rv.
Saturday, January 5th.,
2019…… Today was pretty nice. No rain and the sun was
out for a bit. I had Rylee out and back when my sister was here with Quincy. Of
course, Rylee always zeros in on the Quince and wants to be let off her leash
so she can go play. It’s so good that they can run even though the grass is
soggy and they come back to the house a mess! After they went home, I left and
got breakfast. Then it was just kicking back time. We usually don’t go grocery shopping
or to any of the big box stores on the weekends even though it’s no way near the
crowds you would get in the stores in Cali on a weekend. Besides, neither of us
had anything on the agenda so we just stayed around the house. If you know me,
you know I keep logs of the races and the car auctions, complete with dates and
times. That way I can make sure to get them all recorded for later viewing. I
have been getting all of those schedules
off the websites and getting them printed and in my book. Motocross starts
tonight and I’m ready! Lydia has been catching up on all of her saved shows now
that she’s watched all of her taped Christmas movies. So, we were both kicking
back most of the day. Later, we ate a nice bbq rib dinner and settled in for
the night.
Sunday, January 6th.,
2019…... Again,
nothing on the schedule for today. It was really windy last night. Butthead was
super nervous so I took her out to the yard where she could watch all of the
leaves swirling around and the branches moving. Didn’t help. She wouldn’t go
off the porch. We settled in bed later and she was ok but got me up about two
hours later and had to go out. Our plastic lawn chairs that were out by the rv
garage ended up next to the house and that spooked her. So, I got shoes and
pants and a jacket on and took her back out there and showed her and she was ok
after that. We got back to bed and luckily, we were able to sleep in a little
later this morning. It rained a bit last night but it was nice and dry when we
went out for our walk. When I came back in, I got stuff out to make egg and
cheese and ham sandwiches for breakfast but Lydia said she could make scrambled
eggs so I deferred to her. Duuuhhh, that’s a no-brainer! After I cleaned up,
she got showered and dressed and we hung around the house and watched tv. Later,
in the afternoon, our neighbor, Lou, came by to ask for a favor. He is leaving
tomorrow for a week in Hawaii and asked us to feed his dogs until Friday, when
his daughter is supposed to take over. We are glad to help out. I went over
with him and he showed me everything and I was set. We will start tomorrow
afternoon and then go over twice a day after that. We talked a bit and I came
home and later, took off and got us dinner (Taco Bell) and came home and we
watched more tv until we called it a night.
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