Sunday, Dec 29th, 2019…… It was a good night for Lydia.
She slept well. She has been taking only Tylenol now for the past couple of
days. I slept well too. After we woke up, we hung out in bed for a bit and
played with Rylee. Then I got up and showered and took her out. That was about
8:00am. No rain but it’s coming later.
Temp was 45º when I got back to the house. Not bad for December! I went out and
got us breakfast/coffee/tea and after I ate, I went out and connected water to
the coach and filled the fresh water tank. Then I came back in and got some of
my clothes for the trip and brought those out. Oh Oh – a problem! I left the water on too long and it
overflowed! I had a layer of water on
the garage floor under and around the coach!
I had to move the motorhome out in order to sweep it all out. Once that
was done, I went back to work on my clothes and checked things to see what we
need to add and take out and/or exchange. We have all of the usual things in there
already (band-aids, Tylenol, antihistamine, shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste,
etc. etc.) but some of it was outdated and needed to be replaced. I also had a
drawer full of bottled water and Gatorade. We found both the water and Gatorade was two years old so we dumped everything. I came back in and spent some time watching
football and logging in my 2020 bill spreadsheet. I have each item listed with a running total
to see what we spent for that item for the year. So, for 2019, I was pleasantly surprised that the
utilities continued to be so low. I only have one ongoing payment (the
motorhome). Lydia has one credit card. I think we will be getting money out from
Bobby (our finance guy) next year to pay it down. We also would like to start
on another project in 2020 – the back porch, but we’ll see.
Like I
said, Lydia had a good night. She felt really good today but didn’t do too
much. I got her meds out and she built up her box for the next two weeks. We
still have to carry her plastic bin with everything but we have a spot in the
rig for that anyway. I have mine ready to go as well. Tomorrow morning she goes
in for scheduled labs and while we’re out, we may go on to shop for this week’s
groceries plus some non-perishables for the mh.
Monday, Dec 30th, 2019…… We both got up early this
morning. While I took Rylee out and walked her, Lydia got up and got going. She
can only have blood drawn 12 hours after her last meds. That was 9:00pm last night. So, we
didn’t need to be at the hospital before 9:00am. We headed out and got the lab
work done then went to Appletree for breakfast. Then it was over to Walmart for
some groceries. Those all went into the rig. We rested up a bit, then I went
out and checked out the water heater. I had turned it on electric this morning
and the water was nice and hot. Then I switched over to diesel and it worked
fine. The weather on the way down will be in the 40s at night so we also will
need to run the heater(s). We hadn’t run any of these since we got here so I
needed to make sure it all works. Everything checks out. UPS stopped by with
her scooter! I got it all assembled and
she said she will be ok with it. Later, I took Lydia over to get her nails done
and then went over to my sisters to help her put her Christmas decorations
away. She came by later to drop off eggs and talk about New Year’s Eve and Day.
We didn’t have lunch so we ate an early dinner and then watched tv until
bedtime.
Tuesday, Dec 31st, 2019…… Not much planned for today.
Football and loading some more items into the rig. Rick and Janie are getting Lydia’s
old laptop so I loaded that up in the mh. I also had to choose some of Rylee’s
many toys to throw in as well. She followed me all the way, “Why are you taking
them out of my house?” We will take both her beds – one in the rig and one in
the car when we travel with her. Before all of that, I made us scrambled eggs
and toast for breakfast. Lydia got showered and dressed and spent most of the
morning getting her clothes sorted out. I loaded up some stuff for the freezer
and some for the pantry that we won’t need before then. We always have a last-minute
laundry basket of stuff from the fridge (butter, milk, etc.) to load in so I
got that ready to load up on Friday morning.
Sis came
over for the day and night. Her neighborhood gets a little crazy on New Year’s
Eve and Quincy gets really nervous. There will be a lot of noise going on
there. In fact, our local Walmart has had a pretty big display rack of
fireworks out for sale for some time now! I’m betting folks have stocked up. We
don’t have the houses here so that helps. Of course, here we will probably have the
folks on the property behind us shooting their guns again this year! They have
a wide-open area (away from us) that they shoot out into. When we first moved
here and experienced that, we were nervous until we saw where their shots were
going. Hey they are OreGUNions! One good
thing about today is that we are supposed to get some pretty steady rain later
in the evening. Maybe that will help keep ‘em inside!
Ok, later
in the day now - we are relaxing and watching tv. Lydia and Penny have planned
out dinner for today and tomorrow. I don’t know what it is but I bet I’ll be
cooking both days!
Turns out
we had enchiladas, which came from a frozen package. Penny stopped and got
refried beans and rice from Tony’s and we heated that up. It was all pretty
good. And easy!
We ate and
relaxed and I watched the ball drop in New York. We didn’t stay up but we
toasted and celebrated early! Happy New
Year to you all. May 2020 bring us all good health, happiness, and peace.
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