Wednesday, Nov 13th, 2019…… Today we had a few things on our list to do. I
got Rylee out and walked and fed and then I made ham and egg and cheese
sandwiches for breakfast. Then I headed out to prep the motorhome for my trip
tomorrow to get new tires for it. I pulled in the slides and disconnected the
water and my satellite connection. All of the tires are lower than I like but I
think it will be ok to drive the 40 miles down to Coburg. While I was doing all
of that, Lydia had an appointment with the dermatologist to get a second
helping of their freeze thingy for the wart on her toe. That only took a few
minutes and we were both back in the house and ready for bingo in the
afternoon. Yep, today was bingo day at
the senior center. Well, not for us as it turned out! We just contributed. But
it’s fun to play and the folks there are friendly and nice. They will play next
week but we will be dark for the Thanksgiving week. We are also going back on
the 21st for their free pre-thanksgiving dinner. On the way home we
stopped at Walmart to get stuff for beef stroganoff for dinner. Once we got
home from that and rested a bit, it was time to eat. Lydia got everything
together and after dinner, we settled in to watch the Masked Singer and
Survivor. We taped the CMA’s to watch tomorrow. I was really lucky – I had a
dumb guess that the Ladybug was Kelly Osbourne. I was confused when she was talking
because she tried her hardest to sound like she was from down south somewhere. That
threw me off but I thought I picked up a bit of a British accent here and there
and because of the famous family clue, I started thinking about Kelly. I tried
to picture it was Kelly when she sang. Plus, I remembered she mentioned she had
kicked a few tires in her youth. I admit
it - I got lucky and got it right. I have guesses for one or two of the others
but don’t have a clue about the rest.
Thursday, Nov 14th, 2019…... Well, it turns out that today was
not a good day. Lydia had her appointment for her foot and I had one to get
tires put on the front of the motorhome. For me I went out and started the
coach and let it warm up, buckled in, released the air brake, and shifted into
gear and tried to drive off. Problem is I couldn’t! After a bunch of minutes
trying to figure this thing out, I gave up and shut it off. I can hear air
hissing around the back tires. I am sure that I have an air line leaking. This issue has been going on for a long time now, even in California. The right side of the coach would lean an hour or so after I
shut down. It was worse yesterday. Plus, low air won’t let the brakes release so it won’t move. So, I came in and told Lydia, then took the
truck and headed out and drove to Lassen RV to try to get an appointment. I found out they do not work on chassis and engines but they sent me over to Peterson Trucking
across the street who service both Cummins and Cat. I explained everything and
the guy said he thought it was an air box or a leak in the line to the air box.
We set up a service call for next week. I headed home and called Lydia on the
way to see when she was going in this morning. She was there and would talk to
me soon. When she got home, she said they x-rayed the foot again and nothing is
broken. But the doctor is pretty sure she has a ruptured Achilles. He will be
scheduling an mri to confirm. He gave her a boot that limits movement of the
area and said there is not much to do except stay off of it and rest. If the
mri shows a rupture, that most likely will mean surgery. Stay tuned….
She got
home and made lunch and has been resting most of the day. I went out to the shop and continued working
on my ladder project. I got all of the pieces cut and sanded down, ready for
paint.
Later, we
had dinner and watched tv until bedtime.
Friday, Nov 15th, 2019…… Today was gloomy. The forecast says we will
get significant rain later tonight. But it did rain last night a bit. Not
enough to wake us up but enough to put water in the ditch out front. Rylee
likes her water so it is always a problem keeping her out of it when we are on
our walks! Lydia is doing ok, but when
she moves wrong, even in the boot, it causes pain. But she was doing well
enough to go to her nail appointment. She needed to have some ingrown toes worked
on and had made this appointment just for that. When she got back, she said
when they did her toes, they had to be careful not to move her foot wrong. But
she was good to go. The rains turned into light mist and then quit altogether
and the sun came out for a while. Oregon weather! It was nice enough for me to
want to go out and work some more on my ladder project. I headed off to the hardware
store and got a quart of red paint and started in. I got everything disassembled
and spread out. I put the first coat on one side. There are a lot of parts so
it took me a while. I got cleaned up and went back inside and was done for the
day. Earlier, I had taken out the lasagna from the
freezer and we cut it up and had part of it for dinner. We had also frozen the
sourdough so we had some of that as well. We watched our programs until
bedtime.
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