Sunday, June 8, 2025

Oregon Living 2025 – Blog #21 – A Really Busy Week!

 


Sunday, June 1st., 2025……  After  we were up and going and had breakfast, Cat headed off to church. Today was Kaynor and Nick’s Garden Party. We had chips and dip and grabbed our chairs and headed over. They are only about 6 minutes from us, in Sodaville. They had games set up and most played for a few hours, the rest sat around and visited. After a potluck meal, we headed back because we needed to feed the dogs. We settled in for the evening.

Monday, June 2nd., 2025…… After walking and feeding the girls, we headed out to the gym and then to Kevin’s. When we got back, I immediately called again to our insurance company. I expect to pick up the bike this week so I needed to get it added to our policy. Trouble is they don’t insure bikes under the blanket policy. Also, our agent retired 5 years ago, so our new guy wants to do a price check and get back to us. Our homeowners and car policies are due, so he is going to re-review them for better rates. I also spent some time with Sirius Radio getting our Buick’s switched. That guy also reviewed and merged our other contracts (Cat had one on the truck in her old name) and we added the Honda this time and still managed to get a nice price break as a bundle. I finished the Indy Car, Nascar and Motocross races today as well. They recently moved the Nascar Cup Series to Prime Tv. We have Prime, so it’s free but it’s so hard to watch and replay. Nascar is losing fans left and right these days anyway and this will not help those folks who don’t have or can’t afford a pay per view station. Hope they change back soon!

Tuesday, June 3rd., 2025…… Not much on the agenda today. Weather is heating up!  Temps are in the 80s right now but it will be in the 90s by the end of the week.  I went to the square dance workshop but that was about it. Cathye has been busy working on her scrapbook from the cruise and she finished it today. It really looks great!  She set it up showing our day-to-day so folks can see our trip. 

 




Later, we went out to Chef Rick’s Global Kitchen (formerly Kento’s) and had dinner. Our friend Rick wasn’t there. I am sorry to say we didn’t really enjoy the meal. They had run out of steak so we had chicken and shrimp with noodles. The chicken was burnt and the shrimp was overcooked. Not a good meal. While we were there, we planned out our weekend. We are going over on Thursday to Rachel’s where the Club’s parade float is being moved to. Rachel is close to the parade starting point, so it’s a perfect place to set up and decorate the float. On Friday, we’re having a dance at the senior center. As a matter of fact, we have the center for the entire weekend! Our biggest dance of the year is Saturday. We have two silent auctions to plan for. On Friday, they will auction off baked goods. On Saturday, we will have over 100 items out and available for silent bids. We also have the parade going. Busy, busy!  I got a call and text from our insurance guy. He set up our policy for the bike, so we are good to go, at least for that. More next week when our policy hits it’s review date.     

Wednesday, June 4th., 2025…… We slept in this morning. Once we had the dogs walked and fed, we each worked on our own projects. I wanted to cut out the pine shrub that is out in Cathye’s garden area. It is out of control and taking over the area, so she wants it out. While I was getting tools out for that, she worked on the tree next to our driveway. It has been doing poorly for the past year. Most of the branches have mossed over and have died. But we can  see there is still life left, so she decided we needed to prune it. I helped her with the larger branches and we got those out to the burn pile. The pine shrub removal went well and we had that cut down and out on the burn pile in a few minutes. It was getting hot so we were pretty much done for the day.  

Thursday, June 5th., 2025…… HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARYANNE!  Once we were up and going, we walked and fed the girls and headed out to breakfast. We decided to skip the gym today. We went to Kristie’s for breakfast. When we parked we saw Rick coming out with coffee, heading down to his restaurant. We told him we missed him. He asked how everything was – and I told him! Sorry, Rick.  While we were there, I called about the bike. They had the oil changed and have the brake parts, but she said they were still waiting for the tires. They won’t be in until Tuesday. I asked if I could come get it and then bring it back then. We came back home and let the dogs out, and I picked up my helmet and then headed up and I rode the bike home. It was the first time I had ridden it!  It took some time to get used to, but I got it home with no issues.

When we got home, Cathye planned out her needs to bake two strawberry rhubarb pies, one for our potluck and one for the bake auction. She needed rhubarb so she went out looking for that. Luckily, she made calls before leaving the house. All of the produce stands had an early crop and were all out, so she ended up going to the farmer’s market, hoping one of the locals had some.  We had massage appointments so she had just enough time to stop there and check before hers. Success!  Later, when I put the bike away, I noticed that I had oil leaking from the drain plug!  I will have to keep on that and get it fixed next week.

Later, we took the bike over to Rachel’s. Frank, our float coordinator, needed to see it before okaying it for the parade. The plan is for us to be in square dance outfits and ride out in front. We have an older banner that I can turn into a flag for the bike. We got the float done while Rachels’ roommate was grilling chicken for us. It looks great! We headed back home and we were done for the night!   

Friday, June 6th., 2025…… Tonight we have the potluck and dance. There are several folks coming in today to dry camp in the senior center parking lot. No hookups and it will be hot, so we are passing on that!  We agreed to help bring over all of the items for the silent auction so we took two vehicles and went over to Kaynor’s to get all of that. Once we dropped it off, we met up with the rest of the group who all pitched in to set up the hall. We also do a vintage square dance clothing sale and all of the racks and tables have to be set up for that as well. But there were probably 20 folks there, so it only took a few hours to get everything ready. We came home and Cathye baked her two pies. We rested until it was time to change and head over. The meal was good and well attended. There was a lot of interest and bids on both the silent auction items and the baked goods. At the end of the evening, Cat’s pie sold for $17.00! Since we will be back tomorrow, we didn’t need to clean up anything except the kitchen. We got back home and called it a night. We were beat!

Saturday, June 7th., 2025……   I was up and going early this morning. I went into town and got oil for the bike and topped it off. Today is the parade. Frank said he would check in both vehicles at 7:30am. If he ran into a problem, he would call. We had breakfast and waited and called him at 10:00am. They were staged and gave me the location. We got dressed and left. I wore my Club shirt but decided that it was too hot for long pants and shoes. So, I chose shorts and sandals. Cat tried to dress cool but needed to wear her petticoat. We wore our helmets but took hats to wear during the parade. Cathye even brough an umbrella and cooling packs for behind her seat!  We got there and swapped out the hats and Cat put on her petticoat. We were ready!  The parade went well. I think it took maybe an hour for the ride. It got really hot at the end so we were glad when we finished!  We saw a lot of friends including Penny who took these pics....







We helped un-decorate (!) the float and then went home.  Cathye needed to make two cakes for our strawberry shortcakes for tonight.  We were only there for a short time before Penny and Cherrelyn came over. We wanted to celebrate Lydia’s birthday. But since the town bars were busy today, we met at the house. Cat’s nephew, Justin, is a brewmaster at Barsidious and has given us several of his latest batches. We brought out our flight glasses and sampled and toasted Lydia. She would have been 74 today. After a nice visit, we dressed again and headed back to the potluck. Tonight it was a potato bake. We only had to provide bacon bits (Costco).  We ate then I went over to pay. Cat said she didn’t want to dance tonight because she was tired. She said she wanted to go home and rest while I stayed and danced. She left and then I decided to also cut the night short. I called her and she came back and got me. We were in bed and asleep before 10:00!   

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