Sunday, January 13th., 2019…... I slept in this
morning. Last night I went to bed about 10:00pm and couldn’t sleep. I had some
leg pain so I took a couple Tylenol pm. That was about 11:00pm and taking those
makes me sleep well but I feel groggy unless I get enough sleep. So, Lydia got up
with Rylee and let her out then later fed her breakfast and I stayed in bed! I
got going about 8:45am and got cleaned up and dressed and then took the
butthead out for her walk. When we got down to Lou’s, two dogs came out from
around the back and started toward the fence. Turns out they were Taylor’s two
labs that they brought down with them but I didn’t know them so we turned
around. Luckily, they stopped at the fence. Later, I got a text from Lou,
asking me to take back over feeding duties starting Monday morning. Apparently, Taylor had talked to her dad and
said she saw me and wanted me to come back because the dogs were friendly. They
weren’t out again but we never did go back out on the road again. I did go out
later to the workshop and work on that barrel I bought the other day. I cut out
the top with my sabre saw. I still need to clean up the cut but it came out
nice. I may end up with a couple more of those!
Most of the rest of the day was
spent watching auction and football. Mecum auctions ends tonight but
Barrett-Jackson starts on Tuesday and I wanted to watch and delete what I have
taped. Before heading off to bed, I had done just that so we’re good to
go. Lydia tried out her new induction
cooker for dinner tonight. It works as described and is easy to clean. They say
that the cooking surface shouldn’t get hot but it does. It’s ok though, and
will work well in the rv when we travel.
Monday, January 14th., 2019…… I needed to go back this morning for one more time to feed
Bailey and Lucy. Taylor fed them yesterday afternoon before they left to go back
to Portland. Lou will be back sometime later today and will take care of them
tonight. I did manage to take a couple more pics that show them (just) a little
better...
After that, I went home and got
monster puppy out for her walk then went off to get our coffee/tea/breakfast. I
then started on the security lights on the garage walls. I really liked the old
lamps that were there but they are worn out and unreliable. I thought about
using the guts out of the new ones but that would have taken too much custom
work because things didn’t match up. The new ones say they are waterproof and I
won’t compromise that. They went up in a
couple of minutes each and I was done. They don’t look that much different and
later that night, they both worked and the light is about the same so I’m
happy.
Old….
New….
While I was working on the lights,
Eric, our pest control guy, showed up for the 3-month service call. He did his
thing and found nothing out of the ordinary and was gone in a short time. Later
in the afternoon, I went to Walmart and bought some tortillas for tacos for
dinner tonight. After cleaning up, it was tv until bedtime.
Tuesday, January 15th., 2019…... Took monster puppy out for her walk this
morning and bundled up for that. It was 27º again! Because it is not raining up here now, we just
get the cold. But once the sun comes up, it warms up pretty quickly and is pleasant. High today is expected to be 56º. I fixed my breakfast and figured I would put together the bathroom cabinet we
had ordered. But before I could do that, I had a phone call to make. Yesterday
we had heard a buzzer going off and finally tracked it to the septic warning
alarm in the garage. I shut it off and it didn’t come back on, so I thought we
were good. This morning it went off again so I ended up calling Lisette at
Affordable Septic Sys. They were the ones who did the inspection before we
closed escrow and I liked her and kept her number. She sent out Misti and
Dallas about 45 minutes later to check it out. They determined that the alarm
sensor, that was attached to the pvc pipe with zip ties, had slid down on the
pipe and was at an angle that caused it to go off. They reattached it using newer clamps. Upon inspection, they found
that the sensor was cracked so I had them replace it before it failed. Lisette
had said we needed a new one last year but we never called them back out.
Anyway, it’s fixed now and the whole job with parts cost $150.00 so I think we
got off cheap.
Kirk came by and worked on pulling weeds. He also sprayed weed
killer in the blueberry cage. He had already weeded a foot or so around each
plant last time but had to wait to spray when we had 3-4 days of dry
weather. Lydia took off later to get her
hair cut and I hung around and rested and ate lunch. I did get the cabinet out
and ready for assembly tomorrow. It won’t go up for a while so I’m in no hurry.
Because it goes where a towel rack is now, we will wait on the install until we
get the new towel racks bought and installed.
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