Sunday, May 18th., 2025…… Cat called me around 8:00am our
time. She said they went to the Urgent Care for her tick bite. She was treated
and given some doxycycline as a preventative measure for Lyme disease. We
talked for a bit before I headed off to take a shower and get dressed. I walked
and fed the girls and then made myself some breakfast. Then I settled in and
finished watching The Preakness and then Nascar. While I watched the race, I
worked on the blog and got that posted. Then it was more tv and lounging. Penny
came by to drop off something for the yard sale and we talked for a bit. That
was pretty much my day.
Monday, May 19th., 2025…… I was up and going early this morning. I had the dogs walked and fed and then ate my breakfast. I spent the morning out working on the shop garage to prep for painting. The woodpile is right up next to the garage wall. I won’t need to move the wood but there is a lot of stuff piled on top right now that needs to be moved. So, I tackled that this morning. I got all of the lumber moved away and restacked under the boat carport. I spoke with Cathye later in the day and we discussed our trip to Bakersfield next week. More on that later. I asked if she had a chance to go watch her daughter at Roller Derby. She said they weren't doing any practice or games right now. Bummer! She wanted to see her in action!...
Later, I settled in and watched tv for the rest of the evening and went to bed early. Rylee gets Cathye’s spot on the bed but Jama still snuggles right up next to me for the night.
Tuesday, May 20th., 2025…… Cat comes home tonight! The weather is off and on. We have gray skies
then blue for a while. It rained last night but everything was clear when I
walked the girls. I worked some more on the cleanup. We now have a start date
for the prep and painting. They will be doing it starting on June 23rd.
He says it will take all week. We are thrilled that we now have a date! Plus I
can now work on getting everything ready with no pressure. We also have to
consider that we are having a Club function here before that. We have committed
to another Lebanon Square Circlers Garden Party! Last year we had about 30 people here for the
Sunday event. We put out the large ‘revival tent’ but this time I think we’ll
just use the smaller popups and the covered deck. We also have invited our
fellow Club members with rvs to come stay on Friday. So far we have five
coming. We will offer up our motorhome and the Shasta if someone without an rv wants
to stay. But all that means is that we
have a lot to do before then.
I heard from Cat when she got into
Chicago to lay over. She has another layover in San Jose so she won’t get in to
Portland until 10:15 tonight. I went off to the workshop and that went well.
Next week we were supposed to be dark because the Senior Center is hosting a
wellness seminar. But today we learned that they want us to do a short demo for
them at the end. So, we came up with enough folks to get a square for that next
week. I came home and made an early dinner and talked with Cat again then
watched tv and then left to head up north. I wanted to drive by the Salem CarMax
facility just to see if I could maybe spot the car. Nope. CarMax has kept us
updated as the car progresses from Gilbert AZ to Salem. Right now they say it’s
at the CarMax in Milwaukie OR. That’s on the way to the airport and I know
where it is so I did a drive by there on the way up. I saw a bunch of trailers
with cars on them but didn’t see ours. I drove back to the storage area as far
as I could before I got to the gate. I think I saw it sitting back there but
they were closing so I had to give up. They still have to prep it and then get
it to Salem. I don’t think they will get it done before we leave on Friday. I
got to the cell phone lot to wait for Cat. She had texted me from San Jose that
they were delayed. When I got parked, I checked her flight status and saw it would
be 11:05pm before she lands! No worries. Later, I got her text she had landed. I waited a few minutes and picked her up after
she got her bag. We didn’t get home until 1:45am but the drive was nice and
clear. She played with the pups and then we went to bed.
Wednesday, May 21st., 2025…… Needless to say, we slept in this
morning. But we walked the dogs and I went out and got us breakfast. Later,
Cathye came out to help with moving the workbench away from the shop garage. Of
course we needed to move all of her gardening equipment before we got to the
bench. We got the bench moved and I needed to unscrew the backing plate I put
on the wall behind the bench for the painters. Before we left that task, we had
everything away from the garage. I went on to work on the rv garage. Our large
carport is maybe 6 inches away for the back of the rv garage, so I had a lot of
stuff stored there too. But that only took a few minutes and we were good to go
with all of the outbuildings around the property. They are also going to be
painting our storage shed but that building was clear except for a birdhouse on
the grapevine pole that is close to the shed. I moved that and we’re good. I
have a few things on the house that will need to come off and I started on
that. The rest of it can be done as we get closer to our date.
Thursday, May 22nd,, 2025…… One day to go before our next trip!
Tomorrow we are heading down to Bakersfield to see my brother in law,
Stan, and pick up his 2014 CanAm Spyder that he is gifting to us.
Cathye had mentioned how much she liked that bike when he came to our campground in Bakersfield last time we were down that way. Well, he said he is just not riding it any more these days. I think he said he will be 81 or 82 next month. He is thrilled to see someone who can still use it. We will ride it on nice days, maybe to the beach or even the Club may want us to ride it in the Strawberry Festival Parade ahead of the float! But for now, I had to plan out our trip and get the flatbed trailer prepped and ready to head down. As you can see from the pic above, the bike is a three-wheeler, so I needed to come up with a third ramp. I just went online last week and ordered another pair which came yesterday. Hope that works!
Friday, May 23rd., 2025…… We were up and going this morning. No hurry because today’s drive will
only be to Grants Pass OR. That is 181 miles and 3 hours. We are going to
Boatnik Square Dance Festival tonight. We had purchased a weekend package but
will only be using one night. We decided to give it up because otherwise we
would be driving down there twice! We will stay the night and then drive the
rest of the way on Saturday. We had loaded the ramps and tiedowns yesterday and
when we added our luggage and left it was noon. The trailer pulled with no
problems and we made it to Knight’s Inn in Grants Pass and got checked in. The
owner, Roger, was very nice and told me where we could park the truck and
trailer when we got back from the dance later in the evening. This is only
rated as a 2-star motel, but we really liked it! It was clean and everything was updated. We rested a bit, then walked down to Taqueria
Mexico and had dinner. Later, we dressed and drove over to the fairgrounds for
the dance. We stayed about halfway before Cat got too tired. So, we came back
home and called it a night. I was able to park the trailer in a nice spot and
we could even see it from our room.
Saturday, May 24th., 2025…… We were up and going around 8:00am. We stopped at McDonalds and got coffee and breakfast sandwiches and headed down the road. The weather is nice and the roads weren’t too crowded on this holiday weekend. We encountered a crazy truckdriver yesterday on the Stevens Point Pass. He was in a hurry and was passing other trucks on the right side gravel parkway! But today was calm and we made good time – except that with the Toyota towing the trailer we can’t seem to drive by a gas station! We stopped several times to fill the tank but we made it ok. We went straight to the Hampton Inn in Bakersfield and checked in. Their parking lot is gated and they had plenty of room! Stan met us there and we went across the street to Marie Callender’s for dinner. We both had drinks since we weren’t driving. Stan had brought all of the paperwork and we made arrangements for tomorrow. Once he dropped us off, we came in and checked out the pool and spa. It was pretty much empty so we went in the spa for a while before calling it a night.
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