Monday, July 19th., 2021……
Cathye went to work at her place after breakfast and I stayed home to
work on my blog. I did another test on the motorhome and it started again. Yaay! We will need to get it out and cleaned
up soon. I also want to take it on a short weekend trip around here somewhere
to do a shakedown run on everything. I talked with Randy this morning. He got
his new dirt bike. It had been on order for a long time and he’s thrilled to
finally get it!
We talked about Mom’s celebration in September and he gave me an update on his main bed/bath renovation. He’s glad it’s almost done! He also said that California may go back to required mask wearing again soon. Damned virus! Hope that doesn’t affect Lydia’s COL….
Once Cathye got back, we had lunch
then worked on a few things around the house. Later in the day, my back tightened up and I
was done. This happens once or twice a year. I think it’s a sciatica issue.
More on that later….
Tuesday, July 20th., 2021……
This morning we slept in later than usual. Cathye had to run out to the
house in Crawfordsville to do a few things. The guys were there tagging and
pricing and staging the house. Most of the outbuildings are done and ready for
next week’s sale. She has a few big pieces that are not for sale so they
segregated them from the rest and tagged them not for sale. Except for a few items in the fridge, there
is no food left in the house. So, she packed up what was left and brought it
here. She will keep drinks there for the workers at the sale and will bring
over meat and buns and stuff to make bbq sliders when they are there. I hung
around the house and was here when the guy showed up with the third and fourth
loads of mulch for the flowerbeds. Kirk and his three guys were all here today
and they distributed everything around. We figure we will still need at least
one more 10 yd delivery, maybe a little more, to finish up. That will be next
week. But it looks good!
Rylee was out with the guys but
decided that it was a lot cooler laying in the flowerbeds!
Later, I got a call that my mower
was ready for pickup. This one has been in the shop for several weeks and they
finally got it fixed. Turns out it was just a muffler bolt that was interfering
with the raise/lower mechanism for the cutter. The found it and cut it and I
was now good to go free of charge! Or so
I thought! When he went out to start it,
it didn’t turn over. After a long lengthy diagnosis, it was determined that the
starter had froze up. I would need another one and it would be Friday before it
came in. Oh great! But we now have Cathye’s
John Deere tractor so we were good to go. But I still had to come back
emptyhanded.
After the guys left and Cathye got
back, we headed out to get some dinner and came home and relaxed and caught up
on three on-demand episodes of The Great Food Truck Race that I had missed last
month! Lydia and I really liked this
series and Cathye is now into it too!
Wednesday, July 21st., 2021…...
We were up and going early this morning.
Mowing the lawn was on my agenda today. Even with my sciatica, I can sit
on the mower and can even move the grass bags into the truck with little
issues. I have been doing a few simple exercises that help a little but Cathye
had me doing a new one and that works! Plus, she is doing the lower back
massages on me and that helps too! Such
a sweetie! Before we started on the lawn, I got a call from Cascade Power that
the part had come in earlier than expected and it was ready for pickup! So, we headed over and got that done. Now we
have three mowers. I called sis and she said she would be over after bingo at
the senior center. Oh yeah, I forgot they had started that up again! So, I took
Cathye and we played bingo for an hour and a half. The new caller has a new way
to play. They have no monies collected
and now have one donated prize to hand out at the end. This week it was a gift
card for the local eatery. They play a few specific game (like four corners)
and they will keep playing until they reach a set number of winners, sometime
3-5 for each game. If you win, your name goes into a hat for a drawing at the
end for the gift card. I won 4 games and
Cathye won 2 and Penny won 2, but someone else won the card! But it was still fun! We came back and started in on the mowing.
With three mowers going, we were done in less than an hour. With the zero-turn,
I always bag the lawn grass so I dumped that in the truck so I can take it to
the recycle place. Meanwhile, the girls mowed the field grass, which is pretty
much dried out now and looks like straw and was really dusty. But they made
quick work of it and I took them to dinner later at Bigfoot Grille and we had a
nice meal.
Thursday, July 22nd., 2021…… Happy
Anniversary Randy and Maryanne! I sent them a text message early
in the day and heard back from them that they were going to celebrate later
that night with a nice dinner out. My back feels a little better but I am
trying to take it easy. We had to go to the house to meet up with her neighbor,
who was bringing his tractor over. Tomorrow they will be out to do a required
septic clean out and the cap is buried somewhere in the yard. The neighbor
needed to use the bucket on his machine to scrape around until he located
it. I just watched. Later, we headed to
Eugene to pick up her stepson, who is here for his dad’s engine group. They are
participating in an event called the Great Steam Up, at which a lot of
enthusiasts show and run their engines. They have several clubs doing this and
it’s a big deal in these parts. Plus, her stepson gets to see his dad’s motors
run one last time. And they were sold to a fellow club member who will preserve
them which is important for him. He will
also get to spend some time at his old house where he grew up. Also important
to him. We stopped at Coburg Pizza and had dinner on the way home. We came back
home and he settled in in our guest room and Misty and Lona came to visit and
we all sat out on the front porch and had a great time.
Friday, July 23rd., 2021…… Today is Stand By Me Day in Brownsville. I
wrote about this already but the movie was shot (in 1985) in this town and
every year they do a tribute day and folks can walk the town and see where some
of the scenes were shot. We will go even though it will be a little downscaled
this year due to covid. We went to breakfast and Cathye and Chris took off to
head over to meet the septic guy at the house. I stayed home and will meet them
later in Brownsville (which is in between there and here). I needed to catch up
on my checkbook and bill pay spreadsheet and also needed to go on venmo and pay
Kirk for his mulch job.
I left here when they called and
met up with them in Castle Rock, aka Brownsville. Even though this was not a
full day event, there were tons of folks there to walk the streets on a
self-guided tour of the movie locations. My favorite is the corner in town where
Vern finds a penny on the street. They have super-glued a penny there for folks
to see. Cool!
I also liked the coca cola mural they painted on the building just for the film. It was supposed to be done with a chalk-like paint that was designed to dissolve in a few weeks. It was still visible there 22 years later in 2007 so they decided to repaint it for permanent display!
We toured the local museum and also the photo gallery and saw a lot of historical photos and displays. They do a nice job in capturing the history of Brownsville and also the surrounding areas. We stopped in the local eatery and got some turkey wraps and found chairs in a shady store front. Thanks for lunch, Chris! Later, we made our way back to our cars. Chris took Cathye’s truck and went over to Albany to visit with his brother. We came home and rested and planned the rest of our day. We didn’t do much – just hung around the house and ate leftover pizza and watched the opening ceremonies for the Olympics. It was an ok show but we felt sorry for the athletes walking in to an empty arena. But at least they finally get to compete!
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