Thursday, April 4th, 2019…... Today
was tour day. Yesterday, my sister took Amber out to show her Foster Lake. It
was cloudy and rainy but then the sun came out for a bit so Amber got some
pics. Today, she went to Corvallis to the gym and after that we took off to
drive up to Woodburn to go see the tulip fields. The flowers were late blooming
but have opened up now and it’s cool to see.
But before that, I took off and
went to Albany and stopped for breakfast and then headed over to Lowe’s and
bought a few things. I got some earthquake straps to secure the new shop water
heater. I also bought a knob to affix to the mixing valve for the water line
running out to the front of the shop. I bought a hose reel as well and got the
100’ hose set up and going for that. Lastly, I bought a couple of slide out
waste containers that are made to go under a kitchen sink and slide out when
you need them. These will go under the Oster oven in the nook and will be used
for recycle for bottles/cans and also for paper/cardboard and other recycle. I
plan to mount them on temporary platforms for now but they will be put inside
whatever cabinet we end up with. But I wanted them now to use in my future
design for that space. Once I got back from Albany and got everything unloaded,
it was time to go pick up the girls. Woodburn is approx. 44 miles north of us
and I chose the back-road route to get there. We were surprised to see that
there were no flowers in the fields where we saw them last year. We got to the
gate and saw the sign that the fields were 35% in bloom and were about ready to
turn around and the lady in the booth told us they plant in different fields
each year and not to worry, “There were plenty in bloom to see”. So, we paid,
parked and went in. After visiting the restrooms, we jumped on a tractor ride
out to the fields. She was right. They didn’t disappoint! We walked around and
visited with other folks and had a good time. I even got to hold Rufus, while his owners climbed the observation platform to take pics. Amber had never seen this before
and she said it was really nice. We took several pictures around the area
before walking back to the tram stop
and going back to the shops. We bought a few things and the girls tried wine
and beer tasting. I had a thimble of two beers from a place called the Feckin
Brewery. One was a pale ale called
Feckin Blonde (just ok) and the other, a stout called A Feckin Good Morning To
You! I don’t like stout so that didn’t
impress me, but I had to try it! Didn’t buy anything there. After we left
there, we drove to Silverton and went to 22 Water St. for dinner. We had been
there before and everyone enjoyed it this time too. Once we got on the road
again, it took us another hour to drive back to Sis’s house and drop them off
and head home. We were met by a hungry puppy who had to pee! But all was well
in a few minutes and we all settled down to relax from the day. Of course, I
had to play with my poor neglected pooch who hadn’t seen us in 6 hours! Poor thing!
She ran me around and around the house. All of the day up to this point
there were only a few sprinkles mixed with cloudy skies. It was only about 30
minutes after we got home that the skies opened up and we got some pretty good
rain for 20-30 minutes. So, we timed our day just right!
Friday, April 5th, 2019…… Today, the plan was to meet at
9:00am at Kevin’s, for breakfast. Butthead woke me up early and I got showered
and got going and walked her and got my paper. We left and met them and had a
nice breakfast. Amber was not used to
seeing our little town diners but she thought it was fun and the meals there
are always good and she liked that. Afterward, we left for home and they left
to go shopping in Corvallis, plus they wanted to have lunch there and then go
do some wine tasting. Once we got back and after an hour or so watching tv and
relaxing and waiting out the sprinkles, I went out to the shop and got the
earthquake straps installed on the water heater. Rylee was happy because she
was out of the house. The weather cooperated for most of the afternoon but it
clouded up again and we had some nice rain later in the day. Lydia made fish
and potatoes and asparagus and we watched the two Blacklist shows we had taped.
The new one is one later tonight but we’ll watch that one another time.
Saturday, April 6th, 2019…... This morning the sprinkles came as I was out
with the monkey butt. We cut the walk a bit short. Then I went out and got us
breakfast/coffee/tea. The girls came by a bit later so Amber could say goodbye.
She had a shuttle trip back to PDX before her flight back to Orange County. It
was nice to see her and I hope she enjoyed her visit with my sister and us. The
drizzle continued for the rest of the day so we never left the house. Mecum
Auctions is in Houston this weekend (actually starting on Thursday) and has 18
hours total, so I started on those last night and continued today. I have plans
to work on those recycle containers but that can wait. Lydia got stew meat out
to defrost for dinner later and I managed to get monster mutt out for a little
exercise between showers. Our lawn is now way overgrown so we are really
getting antsy for dry weather so I can mow and give her a place to potty! So sad!
We
watched our taped shows and watched it rain until we went to bed.
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