Friday, June 24, 2022

Oregon Living 2022 – Blog #24 – A Busy Week…

 

               


Sunday, June 12th., 2022……  No rain in the forecast for today. They say we are at 50% for tomorrow. I hope to beat those odds and it won’t rain so I can mow again. Cathye headed off to church after we walked and fed the dogs and had breakfast. I had zero plans for today but wanted to get all of the wedding photos mounted that Cathye has had printed and chosen for our wedding wall.    

Monday, June 13th., 2022…… I slept in this morning so I didn’t have enough time to go out with Cathye to walk the dogs as I needed to leave to make my 8:00am acupuncture appointment. She walked and fed them and had breakfast. I stopped at McDonald’s on the way home. After getting home, we left again and headed over to Albany to go see Jamie. We stopped and did some shopping at Walmart on the way home. Once we did that and rested for a few minutes, we left again to go to her insurance office. We are moving her car (and her) to my policy and they needed her to sign a cancellation document there which took all of 20 seconds. We then headed to her credit union. I had received my new credit card but wasn’t able to activate it on the phone plus she hadn’t yet received her new one with the name change. And she had ordered checks which hadn’t arrived. They fixed my activation easily but didn’t see any record of her new card in the system. They will look into it and call her later. It turns out that we made the right move in going in. Seems they didn’t order her a new card and no one turned in the request for checks. That was remedied on the phone so we were good.  I checked in with the boat guy and his wife responded that he had scheduling issues but could I bring it in on Thursday. That works and I arranged a time to do that. I also made a call to my estate planner. Cathye has a will which obviously had Jim on it and it needed to be revoked and a new one made. I wanted my guy to sit down with us and advise us for the next steps.  I had to leave a message.    

Tuesday, June 14th., 2022……  We decided that after we walked the dogs this morning, we would go out to Kristi’s for breakfast. Together Reese and Kristi have 5 kids and one was graduating middle school and they were closing down after breakfast so they could go to the graduation. They are super people and we sure like going there!  We came back and then ran some more errands before getting back again and feeding the dogs before going to Growlers for dinner with Ron and Teri. Teri was our flower arranger and worked with Cathye in hospice care before retiring. She and Ron have been dating for about 8 months now and seem to be very happy.  Next wedding will be theirs we’re guessing! I also got a call back from my estate guy and we set up a meeting for next month. One more thing almost done!    

Wednesday, June 15th., 2022……  Happy Birthday Cherrelyn! We are taking her to dinner later this evening at one of her favorite places – Momiji Sushi! Not our first choice but we’re told they have teriyaki and yakisoba there and we will find something good. Cathye went off to SHEM and I worked on the blog and on my checkbook in the morning. She stopped by Momiji’s on her way home and got a gift card for Cherrelyn. I also worked on arrangement of those photos and such going up on the wedding wall. I have saved a glass shelf – never been out of the sealed box - which Cathye loves, and will go on that wall too. I had forgotten that this morning!  So, now we have to rethink the layout and which wall and adjust for that. But good thing I didn’t start pounding nails this morning!  We hung around the house and then fed and let the dogs out for a bit before heading off to dinner. It was a fun evening!  Penny and Cherrelyn both love sushi and had bento boxes - with stuff I’m not familiar with! - and Cathye and I had teriyaki and yakisoba noodles which were both very good! A fun evening! 




We didn’t have any alcoholic drinks there, so after we left them, I guess Penny and Cherrelyn headed over to The Landing here in town. This is the brewing building surrounded by the new food truck plaza. Looks like they had a good time!

Thursday, June 16th., 2022……  The weather is still pretty unpredictable. One day it’s nice, the next it’s rainy!  Still no word on the deck project. All I can get out of Dana is that they are still trying to finish up work on their current project. Cathye is about ready to kill me! (kidding) but I am starting to get upset about the timeline now….

Cathye and I headed over to drop off my boat. We think the impeller is clogged up because it’s not pumping water. He will check it out and replace the impeller ($27.45) anyway since it’s going to be open. Mark and Wendy have just taken over at Cascades Outboards and Vintage Marine. I met both of them and liked them right away. He’s a local pastor and worked for Jon and then took on the business to stay busy and earn more money. I left the boat and came back to relax at home for a while before making it to my 12:45pm massage with Emily. After that, I came home and hung some of the wedding pics on the wall. Or rather, I finished mounting them in the frames and figuring out a layout for them. Still waiting for a few more from Cathye…    

Friday, June 17th., 2022……  Housekeepers were coming this morning, so we picked up dog toys and put stuff away. Josh’s shipment from New Hampshire showed up today. 14 boxes! I helped the UPS guy stack them in the garage and we let them know they are one short of the 15 that were shipped. Rob said it probably got held up somewhere and would come next week. Hopefully. But we let Josh’s mom and him know. As a reminder, Josh is Cathye’s grandson (from Terisa in New Hampshire) who is moving west and has rented a place in Portland.  Anyway, we have his reservation time and his shuttle from Portland to us is booked. He’ll be staying here until his place is available (on the 24th). We will drop off a car at the shuttle drop-off  lot at the hotel for him to drive home since he won’t get there until 2:30am or so!  He gets here next Monday and will be with us until Friday when we will help him get all of these boxes (and anything else we have here to help him move in) up there. Just a few more details to iron out.  We had planned on going out tonight to the Sweet Home Elks lodge for some country western/line dancing but at the last minute neither of us felt like going. Cathye has some pain in her left shoulder and I said I was tired so she wouldn’t push us going. Swings and twirls and such would definitely be felt tomorrow! So, we just stayed home and relaxed and had pasta and wine for a nice quiet dinner! This was actually part of a gift basket from Les and Dee and just needed to be cooked and assembled. It was delicious. Cathye made a no-bake chocolate chiffon pie which was also very tasty!

Tv until bedtime. 

Saturday, June 18th., 2022……  Not too much on the agenda today. We needed to hit Walmart again so we did that. Even weekends here at the local stores aren’t really that big of a deal. Not anything like the crowds in SoCal!  Later in the afternoon, we changed clothes and headed off to Sweet Home where Cathye’s church friends, Kay and Joe, were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary!  Even though the weather wasn’t cooperating, it was well attended. Ted, the minister at our wedding, did the renewal of vows. It was a lovely afternoon and we enjoyed the celebration. Later, we came home and changed and relaxed for the evening. We talked a little about Father’s Day plans for tomorrow.  We’re going to take the pups for a nice drive up to Detroit Lakes. After that we watched some more tv and then headed off to bed.  

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