Oregon Living 2025 – Blog #18 – A Trip Back East for Family Time!

 

Sunday, May 11^th., 2025…… HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!! 

Cathye heard from everyone before 8:00am this morning! Nothing planned today so she headed off to church while I worked on the blog. The rest of the day was spent relaxing and planning this week. We have haircuts, cardiologist (me), and then Cathye’s flight back to New Hampshire. Later, we watched more of our taped programs and then hit the spa before bed.  

Monday, May 12^th., 2025…… Today was house cleaning day!  We were up and walked and fed the dogs and then went to the gym. We stopped at Kevin’s and then came home and started in. Cathye had done the bathrooms last week so it was my turn today! I had to vacuum the carpets and then hot mop the floors. Not too bad and I was done pretty quickly. We also have a new shampooer and we wanted to try that out for the bad stain in the bedroom floor. But the weather isn’t going to help in drying so we’ll wait until tomorrow.  Cathye has been getting her packing together. She leaves on Thursday for a trip back to see family in New Hampshire. Later, we had dinner and watched some of our taped shows to get caught up before she leaves. Tonight it was The Masked Singer. We have only the final to watch now. We have our favorites in the final four!   

Tuesday, May 13^th., 2025……  I was up and out early this morning because I had an 8:00am appointment in Corvallis with my cardiologist. I headed off and got that done. No issues except for another cat scan they want done.  I was back in time for us to go together to get our haircuts. Cathye went a little shorter this time. Next up for me was the workshop. Cathye didn’t want to go so we started in on the carpet cleaning and, after I had that stain cleaned up in the bedroom, she continued on with some of the other spots in the guest room and my office.  I took cuttings from the peony flowers that Jo gave us that Cathye had picked as a gift for her. Class was ok. We had enough for a square with folks able to sit out now and then. Afterwards, I was drafted by Grace, along with Mo, to go to her house to help with some of the vintage clothes in the Club trailer. She also had some racks to be rebuilt so we took care of that. Tv and spa and then bedtime.   

Wednesday, May 14^th., 2025…… Nothing on the agenda for today. By the end of the day, Cathye had everything packed. We made a run to Walmart this morning to pick up stuff for me while she is gone. Later, we watched The Masked Singer finale. We were surprised by the order of finish, 

but all were really good so it was up to the voters. We didn’t pick any of the people but got close with Brian Kelley formerly from Florida Georgia Line. Problem was we were thrown off when his clue package said he went solo and we didn’t know they had recently split up the duo. Early to bed because we have to get up at 2:00am tomorrow morning to make it to the airport for Cat’s flight tomorrow!  

Thursday, May 15^th,, 2025……  The alarm woke us this morning and we were up and going and out of the house by 2:20am!  The drive to the airport is around 1 ½ hours and I got her there just after 4:00am. She said later that check in and security went quickly (she has a passport) and she had time to rest before her flight. I got back home and stopped in town for a chorizo burrito and headed back home to eat and relax. She texted later that she made it to Chicago and was waiting for her next leg to Manchester NH. Later, I heard that she was picked up and was on her way back to Daniel and Terisa’s home in Walpole.  Felix was happy to see his Grandma!

I rested and actually took a nap during the day to get caught up with my sleep. Later, I went out to work on the trailer. I used the truck and pulled it out and got all the lights hooked up and the ramps loaded and locked on the trailer. I broke a side marker on the trailer so I will need to go get a new one tomorrow. But at least it’s good to go next week.  Later, when I was watching tv, I got a text message that our car shipped yesterday and is on the way!  Estimated delivery to CarMax is still 5/16-5-25. I watched tv until bedtime. Rains came later and it was really raining hard for a while. Enough to wake me up!

Friday, May 16^th., 2025…… I slept late this morning.  No rain yet so I was able to walk the dogs.  Cat sent pics of her time with family. The school went on a field to a nature center and Felix caught salamanders and played with his friends. 

Cathye said Gertie finally warmed up to her and now wants petted all the time!  Wouldn’t be so bad but she’s shedding (the dog, not Cathye!) and gets hair all over the couch!

Later, I went off to the Alliance Plus dance in Albany. It is the last one of the season and they had three squares. That’s really good for this dance. It was fun. I got back and let the girls out for a bit. No rain yet but it’s coming.    

Saturday, May 17^th., 2025……  Not much rain last night but it wasn’t raining when I walked the dogs. I left and went to Walmart to get snacks for our Club dance tonight. We have a club visiting so I picked up two tubs of cream puffs to take later. I stopped and got breakfast and watched tv for a bit. I did go out and water Cat’s flowers on the deck (as instructed). FedEx delivered the chair cushions I ordered and I got those changed out. Then it was more relaxing for the afternoon. I watched qualifying for the Indy 500 and then The Preakness Stakes. By then it was time to head off to the dance. Cathye called me before I left and shared stories about her family time. While we were talking, she noticed she had a tick on her leg!  It had just started to burrow in. She had on long pants so she was astonished that it could get in and bite her, looks like above the knee! Terisa removed it and they treated it. She looked it up and found that it was one to worry about. Oh great!

Anyway, I headed off to the dance and had a good time. We had a club from Boring Or. (southeast of Portland) come down to visit. They are one of the largest clubs in Oregon and brought 34 guests to add to our dance! Before the dance, they wanted a group pic….

Shaun called a great dance and the visitors said he was really good. I got back about 11:00pm but stayed up for an hour and watched part of the Preakness before heading off to bed.