Oregon Living 2024 – Blog #32 – Another Busy Week!

 

Sunday, August 4^th., 2024…… Another quiet weekend. Still hot. Cat walked and fed the dogs while I went out to get us breakfast. I hit Tony’s today and got us breakfast burritos. Then Starbucks. For some reason both places were slow and they each took some time to get through. Oh well, nothing planned today and Cat was able to head out to church in plenty of time. Meanwhile, I went out and checked the batteries on the motorhome. Yep, dead. So, I pulled out the charger and will have to let that go another day before I try again. We leave next Monday for 5 days at Schroeder Park in Grants Pass. Cat texted me that the school supply giveaway, sponsored by her church, is next Saturday. So, we will now cut the trip a day short and come back on Friday instead. I will need to check on a refund if that’s possible. Before she got home, I worked on putting everything back the storage compartments in the motorhome. We had tables and chairs and such that we have used for other trips that needed to get put away. If you know me, you know they HAVE to go back! When she got home, we went out and cleaned up the inside of the motorhome. We still had Luke’s blowup bed out there and it needed to be deflated and stored away. We put clean sheets on our bed and then came in for the day. I spent time on the blog and posted and then spent the rest of the day watching tv. Olympics of course, but also the regionals for Little League Baseball are on tv today. I think I have them all taped, going forward. So, between the Olympic events, and auctions, I have plenty to watch!  Cathye is working on menu items for our campout. We know about one potluck but we still have the other days to plan for. I still need to get the bartop done because we will need it for presents for the wedding. I will plan that for tomorrow. Leftovers for dinner. Tv and spa until bedtime.

Monday, August 5^th., 2024……  More Olympics today. This will continue all week. Little League games all week too, so I will be bouncing back and forth to stay caught up. Today is Cathye’s stress test. We won’t have time to go to the gym this morning because of that. They didn’t get the order approved for a chemical stress test, so she took the physical one on the treadmill. She made it to get her heartrate up enough to get a reading, which we will find out about later today. We stopped by and got breakfast, and came home for the day. Later, she read the report on MyChart. It indicated ischemia was present. That’s restricted blood flow to one or more arteries.  Her friends and family said she is most likely needing angioplasty. She made an appointment with her doctor for later in the week to discuss. All of this is still prior to her 1^st. visit with the cardiologist, later this month. Meanwhile, we booked skydiving for September 14^th. Yes, we are both going – unless she is told otherwise!  Randy is looking at coming up to with us. More later when he knows….

The kids and grandkids came over today to do some work around the backyard and to discuss more details for the wedding. Corey burned the dead weeds down that we had sprayed last week. It looks really good.  While he was working, I shared my ideas with Vikki for the canopy, tables and chairs setup (one of my only jobs!) and then got a little frustrated after hearing what she wants – but it’s her day and we will do whatever!  

So, I sanded the bartop down with 600 again, this time working on the edges. One more time and it should be ready for epoxy!

You can also see where Corey worked on the weeds in the gravel!
 

Later, we called in to our zoom meeting for more updates on the Australia land tour which follows our cruise. We know the schedule, but Lyndee (and David and Dawn) needed to go over some updates and give us timelines for payment(s). We will have 86 on that section of the trip, which means we can fill two buses which spreads the costs out to the minimum. We got weight restrictions for the whole trip. We have pretty much unlimited weight on the ship, BUT we have limits on the air part. We did find out there is no square dance attire required and consensus is that everyone is happy about that! Means a lot less clothes to pack and haul around!  From the end of the call, we know we got some of our questions answered but we still have a few things to do from here – 1) payments for what we have deposits on to date, 2) one more tour to look into – we want to do the bridge walk in Sydney. It’s not part of the tour so we will have to schedule it on our own on the open day before we leave to fly home. But we know we can pack and keep the weight down for all legs of the trip!          

Tuesday, August 6^th., 2024……  Olympics and baseball this morning. Square dance workshop this afternoon. Cat is not going as she is being told by everyone to take it easy for now. I went and helped out. When I got back, we talked a bit more about yesterday and the test and then about the wedding. Oh, yeah, we leave next week for a motorhome trip with our rv club! We need to plan for that too!  

Wednesday, August 7^th., 2024…… Today was a light day. Cathye had a scheduled lunch with Jamie. When she got back, we worked on the yard some more. It’s super-hot these days so we stayed in for the most part and watched the Olympics (and baseball for me), going out for short periods.  

Thursday, August 8^th., 2024……  Today was my doctor day. I left this morning and headed off to Corvallis to meet with ‘the electrician’! This was a referral from my cardiologist because I am a good candidate for an ablation procedure. It was explained to me about the electrical charge that they use once they get the line to my heart. I’m doing ok now with normal sinus rhythm but this procedure with allow stability and will hopefully reduce my meds – which is always a good thing! So, I opted to have it done. Will have a bit to wait for scheduling though.      

Friday, August 9^th., 2024…… We have haircuts on the agenda today. Also, Cat has her appointment today with her doctor, so we will take both cars and she can go directly there to make it for her check-in time.  She has read through ‘Dr. Google’ and wants more info. After my haircut, I went home and prepped the mowers for later today. When Cat got back, we spent time talking about her visit. Even though he is not involved in the heart treatment, the doctor carefully explained to her what to expect next. She is a lot less nervous now. Yaay! Plus, he said she was good to go skydiving because, other than nervous adrenaline, it wasn’t strenuous to her heart.

Penny came over and we got started with the mowing. I did the lawn with the bagger while they both cut the field and areas that didn’t need bagging. It went quickly and Cat didn’t have to work at dumping grass!  A win win for her!    

Saturday, August 10^th., 2024…… Since we didn’t get breakfast out this week, we went out to Kristi’s this morning. After that, we stopped and got the Honda washed before our trip on Monday. We also picked up some new meds from her last visit. I spent some time working on sawhorses for the guest table for the wedding. The store bought sawhorses work but they are just a little too high and you feel like a child reaching up to the table! The ones I built should work fine. I also got the bike rack on the Honda. I will wait until tomorrow to load them though. We ate leftovers and watched tv and then hit the spa before bed.