Saturday, July 27th, 2019……
This morning, after walking Rylee, I got on Ebay and ordered an
over-the-air digital antenna for one of the tvs in the house. I expect that
ATT/Directv and Nexstar and CBS will settle soon and we will get our CBS
station back, but this was only $8.00 and I want to see if it works at all –
just in case. Then I went out and repaired that bad connection on the bug
zapper extension cord. I was right, one of the terminals had gotten hot and
melted. I just replaced it with a heavier extension cord and was done quickly.
Later,
Lydia went out and worked in one of the front flower beds. It was warm but the
clouds made it nice to be outside. She pulled some dead flowers out of the beds
and I followed behind and picked them up for the trash. We were done in an
hour. I also went out and tested the sprinklers again. I have noticed white
spots on the lawn and suspected the area was being skipped by the rotating
sprinkler heads. We have them set to run in the middle of the night so we don’t
usually see them in action, but testing them helps. I was right – I have two
that need to be replaced. Again, tomorrow.
I came
back in and watched the next to last day of the Tour. The last day through
Paris is usually ceremonial so today’s run was the finale. I was sad to see the
guy (Julian Alaphilippe) who held the yellow jersey for 14 of the 20 days lose
it yesterday and not get it back today. He was a French rider and it would have
been nice to see it won by a Frenchman. But not this year. The new leader (Egan
Bernal) is from Columbia and is the youngest rider in the Tour this year.
Lydia
fixed hamburgers for dinner and after I cleaned up, it was back to relaxing and
watching our programs until bedtime.
Sunday, July 28th, 2019…… Nothing on the agenda today. We
spent the day lazying around the house. I went out and did some work on the
boat trailer. I still have to figure out if I want to just go ahead and tear
apart the trailer, sand and paint it now, or wait until after I check to see if
it will fit under the boat. I’m leaning toward the former because even if it
doesn’t fit, I can always sell it and get back what I have in it.
Lydia made
hamburgers for dinner and we watched tv until bedtime. I got caught up on my
Tour de France today. They finished in Paris and it was a wacky tour for sure!
They had record heat in France this year but stage 19 ended up being shortened
due to rain and snow and mudslides that came down and washed out the road below
the riders. It was a pivotal turn because the yellow jersey didn’t get a chance
to gain time on the downhill part to the leader of the race. The winner was
pretty much decided by that call.
Monday, July 29th, 2019…... I went out and got us breakfast and then
started to get the boat ready. Yes, we are taking it out tomorrow! It’s about time, huh! But with all we have had going on, plus the
issues with the boater’s license, plus I didn’t feel like working on it while
the grandkids were here, it’s finally time! I just had to clean up the trailer
plug and ended up putting a new one on, but it’s ready. Lydia felt like working
in the yard again today so she started pulling the dead flowers out of the new
growth and I went behind and got them picked up. Later, we got the new cover
off of the boat and I got the truck ready. We are not planning on doing
anything other than a cruise to see how the boat performs and if everything is
in working order. Of course, I will be on the lookout for good fishing areas for
when I come back!
We wanted
to crash early but we weren’t planning on leaving tomorrow until around 10:00am
or so, so we both ended up staying up later than usual, watching our programs.
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