Oregon Living 2025 – Blog #40 – A Pretty Routine and Quiet Week

 

 

Sunday, October 12^th., 2025…… Heather and Charley left for home mid-afternoon. We headed off to the class around 5:00pm. Jim and Beverly were no shows. Oh well – I guess they just didn’t have the interest. That’s ok, it’s not for everyone!  Before class was over, Cathye had called in our order to James Gang Pizza and we went there and it was empty! 

Only one person waiting and Rachel in line at the counter. She placed her order and we were at the counter to pay for our order and to add a beer to it and go wait for it come out. Trouble was they didn’t have it!  Guess when they took our call, they only got Frank and Maryanne’s order. So, we waited, and waited. I drank my beer and others who came in and ordered after us got their pizzas!  Even the same one as we ordered came out – only it wasn’t for us!  Well, I got mad and went up and demanded my money back and we left. Not my finest moment and I’m sad they couldn’t get our order right but I felt I had to do that. Sorry to all in the place for my outburst and language!  We went home and ate cheese and crackers and cereal while we watched tv.   

Monday, October 13^th., 2025……  Pointe Pest Control was supposed to come today but had an emergency and will reschedule. Today was clean house day. This time it was deeper than normal. Besides all of the dusting and vacuuming, this time I moved out all of the rugs and did a hot mop on the hardwood floors. But it went well and we were done for the day.  We made a list for tomorrow when we plan to go to Costco. Penny had brought over a recall on the Oster Toaster Oven she had bought us several years ago. Something to do with the doors closing suddenly! Ours works well but we want to think about either keeping ours or returning it and buying something else. So, today we went to Walmart for normal shopping but stopped in to see what they had. Ours is not an air fryer and we found one that we like so maybe we will box ours up and return it to Costco.    

Tuesday, October 14^th., 2025…… Oops, can’t go to Costco today. A few weeks ago Cathye contacted a family from her church that picks up scrap metal to help supplement their low income. And she volunteered our old metal for them to come get. They said they will be here later this morning. Then I have our workshop in the afternoon. The guys got here and took a few things. They had a trailer so they couldn’t tow the old boat trailer we have. They will come back later for that. Later, Cathye headed off to meet up with Judy for lunch and I went on to our workshop.  Turns out we didn’t have enough for a square so Charlotte called it and we all went home. Cat brought me leftovers so I ate that while watching game 2 for the Dodgers. We won again!  Now it’s back home and hopefully they can lock it out there and head to the World Series again!

Wednesday, October 15^th., 2025…… We have massages later today, so we were up and going with the dogs and hot them walked and fed before leaving to go to Albany. We hit Kohls first because we both have gift cards from our birthdays. Didn’t find too much this time. We are now looking at toaster oven/air fryers before we turn ours in at Costco. So, we checked out what Kohls has. We found one that Cat likes so we will see if Costco has it. Nope!  So, we will need to figure out what we want to do.

Thursday, October 16^th., 2025…… We were up and going early this morning. The weather is pretty nippy, especially when it’s overcast. Low temps in the high 30s this morning. Brrr!. Justin will be coming over today. Cathye has a plan for him to work here for a few days to get everything trimmed up and ready for winter. He always does a great job. We headed off to Wilco to get some plastic sheeting for the weed control in the blueberry cage. They only had had clear but it turns out that won’t work because it lets light in for weed growth!  Later in the evening, I received a text that my glasses are ready for pickup. I will have to plan for that. Later, I watched game three of the Dodgers/Brewers series. Another win!  One more to go!

Friday, October 17^th., 2025…… I have it in my schedule today to go over to Albany to pick up my glasses and then head from there to go pick up my sister form Eugene airport. No issues with the glasses. They work well but I will have to get used to wearing them full time. I made it to the airport a little late because I went the back road and stopped to get gas. But no worries. She’s back home now. Justin was here again and finished up. Well, not quite.  Cathye made a list and he will be back next week.  He did take Rylee’s pool, which Cathye sold to him. We decided it was time to let it go. It’s just too high for Rylee to jump in and out of. Rylee just doesn’t need all of the stress and strain of jumping in and out of it which she loves to do. She limps around for the next few days after this. I helped Justin load it on his truck and then came in for the day. Later, I watched the Dodgers win the NLCS. On to the World Series!  I am rooting for the Mariners to beat Toronto. That will be a great (West Coast) series.   

Saturday, October 18^th., 2025…… Nothing on the agenda until our Club dance later tonight. We hung around the house most of the day. Cathye decided to make a pumpkin roll for the dance and she started that. I helped and we had it ready in no time! We got a text message from Frank today asking for a referral for my doctor. He hasn’t been in forever and doesn’t even have one now. I sent him my info for Sally. Turns out there was more to this story that we found out when we got to the dance. They weren’t there but we learned that Frank broke his ankle this morning!  He will be on crutches for 2 months. Maryanne doesn’t drive so we all will talk about how to provide some help for them. More to follow…

We got home after the dance and watched a little tv before calling it a night.