Oregon Living 2022 – Blog #15 – Getting Ready….

 

Sunday, April 10^th., 2022……  The weather here is still pretty chilly. They say that we are in record lows for Spring. They keep correcting themselves on the news whenever they mention ‘winter’ storms. Temps are going up but a cold front is coming and the winds with it are expected to blow down trees and cause power outages. Snow is expected in the mountains but they say snow level could get down to 1000’.  We are at 340’ so I don’t expect we will get any. We had the dogs out and walked and fed and then spent most of the day in the house. The rains came off and on throughout the day and it was just too chilly to go outside and try to do anything. Cathye went to church and I hung out and relaxed for the day.

Monday, April 11^th., 2022……  I was up and showered early this morning because I had an acupuncture appointment this morning in Corvallis at 8:00am.  Cathye had to leave too this morning to go get Jamie and take him in for another endoscopy. She needed to leave at 8:00am for that. I left the house at 7:00am and got all the way to the end of the driveway before checking my calendar to confirm the 8:00am appointment. I was surprised to see that I had missed the appointment by one week!  It was NEXT Monday! Duuuhh!  So, I came back in and waited until Cathye took off and then later, I headed off to Walmart to pick up a few things. Imagine my surprise when I came out of the store – it was snowing!  It only lasted for about 10 minutes but the flakes were super big!  But when I got home 5 minutes later, it was sunny with blue skies! When she got back, we stayed in for a while then left again to go up to Dos Arbolitos for dinner. When we got back, we changed into jammies and relaxed and watched tv until bedtime.  

Tuesday, April 12^th., 2022……  Another chilly day. Rains are predicted all of this week. We have 12 days till the wedding when folks will be traveling here so we are watching the weather closely. It looks to warm up a little next week and the Siskiyou Pass is predicted to be clear for the folks traveling up from California. Temps in the 60s for the 24^th. That’s ok with us! We have been working on little projects before the wedding and prep for that weekend. Cathye has a grocery list and a schedule for meals already written down. We have a timeline for the venue and she is going over that this morning. She needed to finalize the meal order this morning and checked on beer and wine.  They have a hotel bar but it will not be open on that Sunday. Our reception room has its own bar and they will stock it with beer and wine and provide a server there for the day, and we needed to confirm our order so she got that done. Then, she headed off to meet up with Judy for another lunch where they went over some more items on the schedule. Right after she got back, I got another delivery. This was the second gazebo, which had got misplaced from the first one and so they had to re-ship. I found a place to store it and we got it unloaded.  Tim and Dana are dragging their feet on starting the patio build. The rains and material shortage have extended everyone’s timelines and delayed our start date. We’ll be lucky if they can get here to just break ground and level the area before the wedding. I’ve dealt with this before and know they are just a crew of two together and they work slowly on their jobs, but Cathye has not experienced them before and is getting antsy. Even if we went with another contractor, at this point in time they couldn’t get to us any faster either!  So, we wait…     

Wednesday, April 13^th., 2022……  Cathye headed off to SHEM this morning and then had to go down to Eugene after that to pick up her dress. David’s Bridal was where she ordered it. Since then, she has called and cancelled it because it wasn’t exactly what she wanted and had found another one somewhere else. Well, David’s Bridal does not refund money. The best we can get from them is store credit. I asked her to ask if they can give it to her in $100.00 cards which she can use as gifts in the future. When she got back, she said they would only split it in half.  She did manage to pick up a bunch of smaller items for the wedding and used up some of the credit, but she says they have a wide array of nice items so she will be using her credits off and on there in the future for things to use as gifts. I did some laundry while she was gone. Once we were done for the day, we ate and settled in and watched tv until bedtime. Tonight, was The Masked Singer and Survivor. We haven’t been doing too well on the Masked Singer, but I did get the last two right. I have an idea for The Ringmaster but most of the others are not in our music genre.   

Thursday, April 14^th., 2022…… We were up and going early this morning. Weather was dry when we walked the dogs but clouded up and rained a bit later in the day. We went up to Kevin’s for breakfast and then came right back home.  Today was spent working on projects. We first needed to prep the motorhome for Josh and Tait to stay in next week. Plus, I needed to do some cleaning on the outside of the coach for our upcoming trip. Cathye said that on our trip home last September, we had stopped close to home to fill up the coach because I wanted full tanks in storage. I didn’t remember that but started the coach and was shocked to see it was still on the full mark! I’m glad she was right!  So, that will save us from the higher costs of fuel right now. Today was also Rylee’s groomer visit. We loaded her up and got there on time. This is Jama’s groomer and was Rylee’s first time there. She was nervous but, later, when I left, they said she calmed down and enjoyed her ’spa day’. She even got their trademark bows requisite bows. Let’s see how long they last!

 

Friday, April 15^th., 2022……  Rylee had one bow out by the time she hopped up on the bed this morning!  We dress them up in their new scarves, made by one of her daughter Terisa’s friends back in New Hampshire. They looked pretty cool, although Rylee is not used to additional foofoo!  

She rolled in the grass after we got back and there went the second bow! Back to normal…

Today was our normal massage appointment. I went first. Plus, it was my turn to pay for both of us. Plus, I wanted to discuss our upcoming wedding reception (more on that later). Emily is terrific!  We have her (and two of her friends) booked for our June reception.  I set up most of the details and she will be calling us both later today to finalize the details.  Anyway, they will have 2 massage chairs and 1 table. Guests can get complementary 10-min. massages. We think folks will certainly love that!  Before her massage, Cathye and Penny had booked mani/pedis for the morning. Cathye showed me later the cat’s eye job they did. Something to do with dragging a magnet across the wet nail.. I don't know any more but it's pretty cool!

When I got finished, I came back and got the wheel off my truckster and took it to Les Schwab to get a new tube put in. I got it back on and got out my tie-downs to strap up the new pool we bought for Rylee so we could use the truckster to drag it to the spot in the yard we picked out for it to go.  With all of the rains we have had recently, the grass is still real squishy, but we got it out there with no issues – other than wet shoes! It will be a while before Rylee can use it but I’m glad we finally invested in one that will last more than one season!           

Saturday, April 16^th., 2022……  No rain this morning! Yaay!  The Calif. rvs head up tomorrow and Randy will be leaving on Tuesday so I’m still watching the weather at Siskiyou Pass in south Oregon. It’s the highest point on Interstate 5 and tends to shut down during snowstorms. The 14-day forecast looks ok so far, but we’ll keep watching. We spent some time today planning for the June reception. It will be on Saturday, June 4^th and all are invited to come join the fun! Since the wedding is limited, we wanted to have a reception here so the neighbors and friends can come celebrate with us. In addition to the massage chairs/table we are hoping to get our friends at Stick A Pork In It to do the catering. They have excellent faire including pork slaw tacos, cilantro tacos, roasted street corn, and potato balls (meat inside a mashed potato ball and fried. All yummy!  Still waiting on confirmation on these guys but we’re hoping….

This afternoon our new guy, Mario, was here to put the final touches on the flowerbeds and gardens before the wedding. Wouldn’t you know it – the rains hit again!  But he was able to work between the showers and it is looking good!  Tonight was spent relaxing and watching tv until bedtime.