Friday, May 14th., 2021……
I was up and out with Rylee early again today. Beautiful weather this
week! Temps in the high 70s and low 80s
for now until Monday. More showers coming next week. But I still need to get
the sprinklers adjusted and operating. But first up was a trip down to
Cathye’s. Her place is about 20 miles south of me. I told her I would take her
to her appointment at her cosmetic surgery clinic in Eugene. She said Yaay! And
she would buy me breakfast! Win-win for
me! She has a tattoo script on her forearm that she wants removed and goes in
every 6 weeks for laser treatment. I love her tattoos (she has 3-4 other small
ones). I have always wanted one so I’m jealous! After she got out, I took her
over to my new favorite place, Prairie Schooner for breakfast. She has more
appointments this afternoon so we hurried back and I left her and came back
home. Later, after a short rest, I started in on the sprinkler system check.
Surprisingly, everything was in working order. I only have to replace a couple
of the drip lines. I also will need to re-strap some of the bed risers which have
fallen off the stakes. But it will be easy fixes. I need to make a Lowes run for parts so maybe
next week. I came back in and watched tv
and relaxed for the rest of the afternoon.
Saturday, May 15th., 2021……
I spent most of the day at Cathye’s, working on staging for her estate
sale. Her son Michael and some of Jim’s radio buddies were there and they were working
on boxing up radio tubes. These are very sought after and they decided rather
than sell to one buyer, they would bunch these into lots and sell them that way.
Meanwhile, my job was to work in the ‘ebay room’. This room houses, in its own
right, a very large collection of floor model wooden based antique radios. Here’s
just one of several hundred in the collection.
He also has thousands of desktop models, both wood and plastic. The ones in my room will be first offered to the radio club, then will be sold on both ebay and at the estate sale. I needed to pull out anything that was not a radio as well as move out enough of them to another room so that a path was created and the rest of the radios were visible to buyers.
The experts will be moving in next to price all of these units. Penny came by and had a look at the vastness of Jim’s collections. We walked through what is left of the old hit and miss engines. They have sold almost all of them. They plan to run a couple as a salute to him at the celebration of life next Saturday. This is one of the larger models that they started up and pre-tested.
After my day was over, I came home
and crashed for the day. I had races to watch and did what I could before
calling it a night.
Sunday, May 16th., 2021…… Today was a rest day for me. At
least for the morning. I headed off to Walmart and picked up steaks and potatoes
and asparagus for the dinner I was making for tonight. Cathye, her son, Michael,
and his new bride Crystal are coming over for dinner. I got everything set up
and they arrived right on time. They brought Bandit, their 18 mth. old Australian
Shepherd and he and Rylee got along really well. Bandit is for sure aware he is
a boy dog and she is a girl dog! Rylee
just wants to play, but he is interested in the other end! Poor puppy!
Jim’s son Chris stopped by as well and we all had a great time.
Monday, May 17th., 2021…...
I had another doctor’s appointment this
morning. That went well and I was out of there pretty quickly and stopped and
got breakfast and headed home. Later, I worked on the shelves and got them
installed. Next up is to putty and paint the screw holes and then I can get all
of the models out and put up there.
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