Monday, Aug 5th, 2019……
I had only one or two things to do today. First up (after breakfast) was
to clean up and prep the house to dust and vacuum. I got that done while Lydia
worked on the bathrooms. Once I finished vacuuming, I was done for the day.
Next up was baseball. Today starts my favorite time of the year – Little League
Baseball playoffs! I already have the schedule and have got all the games for
this week ready to record. Eight regions have their playoffs and the final
three games in each region are televised (ESPN) this week. The winners of each region go on to
Williamsport for the LL World Series which starts next week. The international
games have been played so those teams have time to make travel arrangements to
Pennsylvania for the series. The Northwest region has Salem LL representing
Oregon so I’m anxious to see them play. No matter who goes, it’s always fun for
me to see how well these kids play ball.
I helped
Lydia prep the meat for dinner. Lydia made steak burritos and I got that cut up
and went back to my game. After cleaning up, I finished the first game and went
on to the second. More
tomorrow….
I also
spent some time monitoring a new Windows download. I just didn’t think it would
take 3 hours! I knew it would open or
maybe have to have me open it when it installed so I decided to just stay up.
It finished at 11:32pm! But I wasn’t sleepy, so it was ok. Plus, everything
seems to be working fine.
Tuesday, Aug 6th, 2019…… I got up this morning about 5:30
to let Rylee out. But I was able to go back to sleep with no problem! I awoke
feeling fine. Lydia said she did not sleep well. That was a problem because our
financial manager, Bobby, was coming to see us this morning. He and his family
are up in Oregon for a swimming competition for their youngest daughter and he
wanted to drive down this morning, before they had to report in for check in. They
got here about 9:30am and we gave them the grand tour. The kids all liked
Rylee, especially Brookelyn, the youngest. She had her iPad and was taking tons
of pictures of everything. After that, Lydia and I sat with them and talked
about going up to Gresham to see Bethany swim. They had to leave but wanted to take
us to lunch before they left, so we took two cars and split everyone up so we
could each show them the town on the way to Pizza Schmizza. We had a nice meal
and finalized our trip up to the meet. Brookelyn made a collage of pics of
Rylee and I had her dad send it to me.
It’s too
cute and she is truly talented! Then, we had our waitress take a group picture
and then we said our goodbyes and they headed north, and we headed home.
l to r, The
Garcias: Bobby, Dianne, Breleigh, Brookelyn, Bethany (and us)
Good
thing. Lydia said she was really getting sleepy at lunch! But she did good and once
we got home, she settled in and took a nice nap. I rested too until Kirk came
by. He dropped off Caleb and went and did my sister’s house and then came back.
Once they left, we relaxed again and then later went out and got dinner (Jack
in the Box) and brought it back. Later, we watched our tape of America’s Got
Talent and then Lydia headed off to bed. I stayed up a while and watched some
of my programs before calling it a night.
Wednesday, Aug 7th, 2019…... This morning I let Lydia sleep and got up
early and got dressed and went out with Rylee. I went off to Starbucks and then
to McDonald's to get us breakfast and coffee/tea. My plan today was to go back
out and finish trimming one more smaller tree out front, on the east side of
the driveway. I had noticed yesterday that one of the branches on the other
tree that I had trimmed last week had cracked and was hanging down. It wasn’t
even close to the part I trimmed and was above those that I did remove. So
maybe it was supported by one of them and just gave way. I only needed a trim
saw and got that tree evened out and then went on and got the smaller one done.
I decided to just load the brush on the truck today. I left it full and, have
it planned for Friday, to drive it to the back of the property and dump the branches
in the back woods. I was done for the
day and came in and watched two of the final regional games (Southwest and
Southeast). Those winners will now head for Williamsport for the World Series. Game
one of each of the remaining six regions start tomorrow. I have those on schedule
to tape. My sister made a couple of trips here today, dropping off some clothes
and food. She will stay with us,
starting tomorrow. Her reconstruction surgery, in Salem, is early Friday
morning. Lydia made steak sandwiches and steak fries for dinner and we settled
in and watched our own programs until bedtime.
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