Wednesday, Oct 16th, 2019…… No rain yet. I got Rylee out and
walked and fed. Later, I took off and picked up breakfast/coffee/tea. After we
ate, I headed off to Albany to Home Depot and Lowes. Kirk had given me some
string trimmer cord off his coil for my trimmer. I used it up but saw how much
stronger it was and made note of the brand. I found it at Lowes and bought a
roll for my use. I also wanted to look for a lockset for the entry door from
the garage to the house. I am slowly converting them all from polished brass to
brushed nickel. The same key works the front door so I wanted to get a smart
key system. The one in there now was made by Titan and neither store sells that
brand. I will check with Jerry’s in Eugene next time we are down that way. When
I got home it was raining pretty good. I couldn’t use the tractor on the soggy lawn
to pick up the grass so I was done for the day. Lydia left a little later to go
play bingo. I kicked back and watched some of my taped programs. Later, she made steak burritos for dinner and
we settled in and watched our programs until bedtime.
Thursday, Oct 17th, 2019…... Today, the weather was yucky. It started out
cold but got comfortable without a flannel shirt a bit later. Still too wet to
pick up the grass clippings. I got the monkey butt out and walked and fed and then
fixed breakfast here. The winds came a bit later in the day. We have several
trees that now have all their leaves on the ground. I will be going out there
when it dries out to get those raked up. The large trees out back are dropping
their leaves in mass right now too. I’m glad they are way out there and blow
right off the property! No raking!
Lydia came
in this morning and said she was having an issue she needed to have looked at.
She has found blood in her stool. So, she made an appointment to see our dr.
this afternoon. We were both concerned that it might be a result from her colon
resection surgery so she spoke with her nephrologist as well as her colon
surgeon before going in. Our dr. had her see one of his associates who listened
to her history and then did a preliminary exam and found it was only her
hemorrhoids that had come back. He has referred her for outpatient surgery to
band them. She’s had this done before and it is done in the drs. office. No big
deal. We left there, super relieved that it was only a minor issue. Whew!
Before we had
left for the drs., she had a sandwich for lunch and I fixed the rest of the
burrito meat. It was filling. Later, when it came time for dinner, she was
hungry and fixed the rest of the stew. I had some crackers and cookies and that
was it for me for the night. We watched Guys Grocery Games and got caught up on
those and then went to bed. The rains came just after dark. It came down really
hard for a short time and then just off and on drizzle for the rest of the
night.
Friday, Oct 18th, 2019…... What a big difference from yesterday! The weather is really nice today. There
wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the sun was shining brightly. This morning, my
sister came over to walk Quincy and, after walking Rylee and after we fed both
of them, we took off to go to Shirley Mays for breakfast. We got out there and
found it was closed for the day so we ended up at Kevin’s. Once we were done
and back home, Penny took Q home and we rested for a bit. Even with the nice
sunny day, the lawn was still too wet to run the mower and grass catcher over. So,
Lydia and I took Rylee out for a car ride. In the past, we have just had her
out in the back of the Acadia, with the seats down, leaving her that whole
large area to be in. She’s ok for the most part but doesn’t have anything to
brace her when I stop or corner hard. My sister had given us a harness that gets
hooked up to the back-seat belt so she is locked in. So, we tried that out
today. The harness is a bit small but works and she got used to it but shook
for a while since this was all new to her. We drove to Corvallis (I needed to
go to BofA) and to a park by the river. Lydia walked for a minute or two but
since there were no benches she came back and sat in the car and rested her
foot. Rylee had a nice walk and ride back home. This time we left her loose in
the seat. She did ok with this as well and laid down all the way home. When we got back, I had looked at a few emails
that I had sent for drill presses I had previously found on letgo, and OfferUp.
I decided to wait until next week to
go look at the one I’m really interested in.
Later, we met up with sis at Tony’s Tacos for dinner. It was another of
their half-price-combo special days and, even though it was just after 4:00pm, it
was packed! But we waited in line anyway
and got seats and had a nice meal. You should have seen the walk-in line and
the drive-thru line when we left! When we got back home it had just started to
sprinkle and by the time we went to bed it was raining pretty good.
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