Oregon Living 2022 – Blog #23 – Birthdays, Getting Windows Cleaned and a Short Fishing Trip!

 

Sunday, June 5^th., 2022……  HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARYANNE!  Maureen and Cathye headed off to church and I stayed behind to clean up from the party yesterday. I got a lot of the items broke down and stowed away, leaving the larger items when I have help. Glenn slept in but came out to help and Penny and Cherrelyn came over to help when the girls got back from church and we got everything put away with no problem.  All that remains are the plastic chairs on loan from the church that we need to return, but we’ll do that this next week. Maureen and Glenn said their goodbyes and headed back down south. They needed to be back before Monday so they could attend a kindergarten graduation.  The rains came later in the day so we are happy to have all of that help so everything stayed dry! After that, we rested and we were done for the day.           

Monday, June 6^th., 2022…… We needed to go to Albany for two reasons today. One, for Jamie and the other to look at freezers at Lowes and Home Depot. Our garage freezer, that, if I can remember right, is roughly 25 years old. We came out Saturday morning – of all days! – to find a trail of water 8 feet long coming from it! So, Cathye emptied it, tossing anything super defrosted, and saving what was still frozen, stuffing everything into the tiny top freezer in the garage and in the side by side in the house. Anyway, I had taken the door off and it was ready for pickup!

But first we had to wait for the window washer guy to come. He showed up about 9:00am and got to work, cleaning outside and inside, including all of the screens. He was an older gentleman but worked constantly and knew his stuff!  He made quick work of outside and, except for one window with stubborn water spots on it, everything cleaned up well. He did the inside

and even got the high up ones both front and rear!  As he left, he said he would come back on Friday with some stuff (some kind wax type paste) that he would use to remove the water spots from that one window. We were pleased with his work and will hire him again!

Once he left, we took off to find that freezer. We found that both stores had no stock on any freezers except chest style which we didn’t want. We stopped at the local-owned appliance store here in Lebanon on the way home and they had one that was exactly what we wanted! We bought it and arranged for delivery on Wednesday afternoon. That was perfect! We headed home and had leftover tacos and wedding cake for dinner and relaxed and watched tv until bedtime.      

Tuesday, June 7^th., 2022…… HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN HEAVEN LYDIA!

 

I was pleased when Cathye took a picture of the flower pot that Bobby and Diane had given me at the Celebration of Life. The plant was doing well and she posted the pic along with a nice tribute to Lydia. She got a lot of FB comments and best wishes and remembrances. Nice moment!  I had visions of going fishing this week in the boat. Cathye has not yet seen the inside of it let alone gone out in it, so I thought we would go on Thursday, since neither of us had anything on our calendars. I went out and put a charger on the battery and a trash can with water in it under the engine so I could run the motor for a bit. It took off after a few tries but once it was running, I noticed no water was exiting the bypass tube. I think my impeller for the water pump isn’t working. So, I had to put it away for the day. Later. I called the boat yard where I bought it and was told that Jon had sold the business to Mark, who I spoke to. He said he is booked out until August but if I could get him the engine year and model number and/or serial number, he will order an impeller for install next Tuesday. Yaay!    Today was also great granddaughter Lilly’s birthday party. Her birthday was last week but they choose today to have a party at Waterloo Park. We went a bit late and took our chairs. They were late too and got a covered gazebo but one without a bbq. So, they scrambled and brought one in. But we didn’t plan to eat hot dogs anyway. We left the young’uns and headed to the Hangry Truck and got our hamburgers and onion rings and took them home and relaxed for the evening.       

Wednesday, June 8^th., 2022……  Cathye had a leisure day today!  Actually, she wasn’t feeling well. No fever or anything like that, just tired and she had a sore throat. So, I told her to rest up and spent the day in bed. She texted SHEM to let them know she wouldn’t be in today. I tended to her all day and worked on laundry and did some more clean up in the shop. She felt better later in the day but we still hung out at home all day.  She was still ready for fishing and we talked about just doing some shore fishing at Foster Lake tomorrow. So, I spent some time changing line on a few reels and got things planned out for tomorrow – but only if she’s feeling better!  We hung out and watched tv together before calling it a night. 

Thursday, June 9^th., 2022……  I was up and showered before 5:00am this morning. When I got finished, I asked Cathye how she felt. She was feeling better and wanted to go fishing! She got up and made coffee and let the dogs out and then got dressed and put together some sandwiches and drinks.  We loaded up the tackle and the chairs and the dogs and we headed off, stopping for breakfast at McDonald’s on the way to my shoreline spot on Foster. No one was there! Yes!  Once we got set up and had lines in the water, it only took a few minutes to get fish!  She said she wanted to keep enough for dinner so we did put them on the stringers, even though they were only stockers, maybe 12 inches or so. All day all we could get were small fish but it was super fun!  We probably released another dozen or so. Rylee took an interest in the fish as we brought them up on the bank.

The weather was perfect!  No rain but not a lot of sun either. Temps in the high 60s so I was out of my sweats and jacket pretty quickly. We left the lake with nine keepers and I think we released another dozen or so, so it was a good day for catching!  We got back home and I had to clean fish!  No worries, it was easy and we kept four out for dinner and froze the others.  I ate my lunch late so when dinnertime came, neither of us was hungry. Before that, Cathye had got a text from Robin asking when we were bringing back the chairs. I was done with cleaning fish, so we loaded up the chairs in my truck and I headed off to meet up with her at the church. Cathye stayed home and rested since we were up early this morning. I got back and we both relaxed for the remainder of the day. We decided to save the fish for tomorrow and just snacked and watched a couple of our taped programs before calling it an early night!  We were tired but it was a good day!     

Friday, June 10^th., 2022……  Found out today that our friend, Shirley, from Shirley May’s restaurant has passed. If you remember from previous posts, this was a staple for us and a favorite place to go with friends and family – up until she was forced to close because the owner didn’t want to bring the place up to new codes. We lost track of her after that but knew she hadn’t opened another place. Now we hear she’s passed. So sorry to hear. We ate breakfast at home and as we were finishing, our window guy showed up and spent maybe 10-15 minutes polishing the spots off that on window. It looks amazing!  We left shortly after he did and headed over to Albany and ran some errands. We needed to stop at the Animal Control building and renew Rylee’s license (note – we will have to come back because I forgot to bring her recent proof of rabies vaccination!), then we went to do some shopping at Kohls – because we had a 30% off card! – and then finished up at Costco. On the way home we saw that our favorite strawberry hut was open, so we stopped and got a flat. Boy, they are not cheap! When we got home and had everything unloaded Cathye cleaned and sliced and made strawberry jam and then flash froze the rest, but not before we held some out for dessert later. It will go well with the rest of our wedding cake!

Saturday, June 11^th., 2022……  Today was nice for the most part. Rain was coming later so I decided to not try to mow today. I hung around the house and worked on cleaning up my fishing bag and rods and reels. I watched some of my races while Cathye and her friend Judie left to go hit Hobby Lobby. Later, when they returned, I helped unload some frames and some pictures. The frames will be for our wedding wall and the pictures will go in the guest bath and in our bedroom. After that, the rains came and we hung around the house for the rest of the evening and had our fish for dinner and watched some of our taped shows. The fall shows are ending and we are now almost caught up on all that we have had taped.