Oregon Living 2022 – Blog #10 – Reservations Made, A Trip to the Vet & Movin’ Rock!

 

Monday, March 7^th., 2022……  After getting up and walking the pups, we headed off to Kevin’s for breakfast. Then we drove over to Albany. I needed to get some more lumber for the ramp plus some for another bench I am fixing up. We got those items at Lowes and Cathye got some more plants and we headed back home, with a stop at Jamie’s on the way. Cathye and Penny had a meeting set up for later with her photographer at the wedding venue. I stayed home and worked around the house. I also needed to make our rv reservations for after the wedding, so I sat down and called all of those folks. We have 5 stops coming and going. I only have one more reservation to make and am waiting for a call back on that one. But, it’s nice to have it done. More details on that later.    

Tuesday, March 8^th., 2022……  Cathye had a few errands to run today. But first up was haircuts for both of us.  Our new person, Dianna, who took over for Jenny, has moved into the old Rumors shop and we went there for the first time today. They have fixed it up nicely and it fits the three of them perfectly there! When we got home, Cathye turned around and left again to meet with Terry F., who is leaving to back to San Diego today.  Once she got back, she left again to meet up with Judy for lunch. More wedding planning… I worked on and posted blog #9, then rested for a bit and had lunch before going out to work on the ramp. There is no rain in the forecast until later this evening. After tonight, they say it’ll be clear until Saturday. Anyway, I got everything finished for the ramp. I just need to go get (or order) some non-skid tape for the ramp itself and I’ll be done with that project.

Wednesday, March 9^th., 2022…… Weather is nicer today. Rain is off and on for the week so we’ll see what we can do in the yard. Cathye went off to work at SHEM. I worked on that second bench. After Cathye got done, she headed over to her seamstress to get some alterations done on her wedding dress. I haven’t seen it so I can’t say much more than that!  She went out and did a little more shopping. Later, I got back in the house and rested.   I did get a call from the last campground so I was able to get that in a spreadsheet and sent off to the Calif. folks so they could book. Our trip will begin on the Tuesday after the wedding. First stop is in Troutdale OR with plans to tour around the Columbia River gorge. Next stop is Pendleton OR, where we want to go to the mill and also take in the underground tour. Third stop is Coeur d’Alene ID. We will need to look up things to do there (other than the lake itself). From there we head back toward home. 4^th stop will be in Boardman OR, right on the river. We’ll go back from there to Troutdale for one or two nights before heading back home. Rick and Janie and Mike and Cheri and Gary and Lorna are the folks coming up in their rigs. Gary and Lorna will be cutting their trip short to head back to Calif. Mike and Cheri are leaving us after Coeur d’Alene to continue on to Michigan. Rick and Janie will come back here on their way back to Calif. It will be a fun trip and we are excited to travel with them all again!  

Thursday, March 10^th., 2022…… Today was Jama’s teeth cleaning appointment at the vet. We needed to drop her off at 8:30am although they said she would have to be in line after their other scheduled surgeries for the day. 

They wanted us to go get her around 4-4:30pm. We went to Kristi’s for breakfast after dropping her off. We both like this place and the food is really good. Being mid-week, it wasn’t crowded and we had time to talk with them about getting started. They seem to be doing a good business but nothing was mentioned about Kevin’s. Probably just as well….

After we ate, we went over to Summit Ace Hardware to see their new line of decking material. They will no longer carry Trex because of the product failures and the warranty issue (they aren’t honoring the warranty and are in legal litigations now). Our contractors, Tim and Dana, use Ace for most of their product supply and Tim has already attended a workshop for the new product, called fiberon.  We picked out a few colors and brought samples home. I texted Dana and they said they would be by later in the day to talk more about the project.  We went home to relax and, later, I went out to work on the second bench while Cathye worked out on her island. She found some more stepping stones under the blue atlas cedar and proceeded to move them out!  She’ll feel that tomorrow!  Shoulda come got me! Here are pics as the mulch was going in, and one afterward...

Later, Tim and Dana came by and we chose the one we wanted them to order. They still owe me a bid but promised to have it to me in a few days. They are looking at breaking ground in 2 weeks.

Friday, March 11^th., 2022……  The housecleaning team comes today!  They usually bring the whole staff of 4 and get through the house in a couple of hours. They really do a nice job and both Cathye and I are super pleased. One of the ladies even gets down on the floor in the hallways to hand brush the rug runners to remove the ‘Rylee hair’!  I told her I have ordered a tool from Amazon that you can use that will pick up all of the hair.

She gets first use when it gets here!  We both had massages set up for today. Emily has been working on us since last Sept. and we now have standing appointments each month!  Today it was 10am & 12noon. I went first and then kept going to go get some material for my ramp at Home Depot. When I got home, Cathye had been to her massage and then went and did some more shopping. We got back home and rested. We were going back out later to meet Ron and Teri for dinner. We chose the new Barsidious Bier Garten, which just opened a few months ago north of town. They didn’t get the message and went to the original one downtown and called us saying, “Where are you guys?” They joined us at our location and we had a nice meal. Teri will be doing the flowers for our wedding, so they had plenty to discuss – while Ron and I were flies on the wall!        

Saturday, March 12^th., 2022……  The plan today was to drive to Portland to go to the Home Show there. We decided that we needed to wait until it came down to Eugene and, today we would go out and look at picking up more stepping stones for the island. We had also seen a front yard decoration with a pot on its side ‘pouring out’ river rock and she decided that would look great out on the island. So, we went looking for a pot as well. We went to Kevin’s for breakfast and then drove over toward Corvallis where we knew a landscape supplier was located.  We found and bought and loaded over 850 lbs. of granite stepping stone pavers in the truck!  We stopped at Wilco where she found the nice pot that she wanted so we loaded that too and headed home. It was all unloaded and stacked for when the boys will be back to haul it out there and set it out.  We need the river rock and that will be the next task. We beat the rains and got inside for the rest of the day and relaxed and watched tv. Time change tomorrow!

Sunday, March 13^th., 2022……  Lost an hour last night!  I love daylight saving time and wish it would be voted on as a permanent thing for Oregon (and the west coast). But today it was hard to get up. We were signed up for a two-step class at the Pineway Golf Course clubhouse at 9:00am this morning!  They were serving breakfast beforehand so we were up at 6:30am and showered and walked and fed the dogs so we could be out of the house before 7:45am. It turned out that we didn’t need to be so early because the time change affected the folks running the place. They were late getting in and so we had to wait as they prepped for breakfast. The class didn’t start until 9:45am but it was ok. We were busy learning and had a great time and even managed to get in our meal during the break. Here’s a pic of the group for that session.  There were two people taking pics and while we were getting staged the took the shot!  They used the one where Cathye was hidden!  

Bummer!  After we got back home, we wanted to work in the yard and shop. But it was way too wet. Cathye had Corey and Jacob scheduled to work today, but we called that off for now. We ended up resting after our morning workout and we just hung out and watched tv and Cathye did some more wedding stuff. We went to bed early but it turned out neither of us could fall asleep for a long time.