Sunday, May 10th., 2026…… HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!! We have set up a day for Cat here at the
house. Nothing fancy, just steak bbq, with just Penny and Cherrelyn coming. I
got the grill ready and that was about it for me. Paul brought our tables back
and visited for a while. He brought us up to speed on the kids next door.
Remember, they lost their dad back in November, and are barely 18 and 19 each,
and living in the house. No supervision and boyfriends living there too, so we
know where this is going. We didn’t know it, but the police were called out on
Friday night. He and Cori are closer to the kids than we are so they know
what’s happening and shared with us. Later,
Penny and Cherrelyn got here and we visited and drank champagne (thanks
Cherrelyn!) and I grilled the steaks. We had scalloped potatoes and Penny made
a salad and we had a nice quiet day. Her kids all called her earlier and she
also got cards so that was good too! I
have a trip in the planning for us. Just can’t do it now with all my dr visits
and procedures. But we’ll get there!
Later, tv and spa and bed.
Monday, May 11th., 2026…… I let Cat sleep and walked the
dogs and then headed off to the gym by myself. She was up and had them fed when
I got back. I spent the morning watching my races and working on the blog while
she watched The Devil Wears Prada (no.1) which I had taped for her. Now she’s caught up so we can go to the show
to see the new one. I also called a guy
I met at our yard sale last weekend. He owns a Toyota-specific repair shop in
Scio, and I liked him immediately, so I called him today to set up an
appointment to get the leaky valve cover gasket replaced on my truck. Will be
dropping it off in the next few days.
Tuesday, May 12th., 2026…… The weather is really nice these
days. But we still have storms coming in now and then so we never know until
the same week what to expect. But when the sun is out, it’s in the mid-70s and
very nice! All of the flowers are in
bloom and Cat takes good care of pruning them when needed.
She has ideas of transplanting portions of some of the nicer plants to some of the bare areas you see in the pics to fill in, but she hasn’t got to that yet. Here’s a pic of one that one of our square dance friends gave her a few years ago.
It sure looks pretty and has done
well planted here.
Since we didn’t have anything on
the agenda today, I decided to take the truck in to Zack. Cathye followed me
there and after we dropped it off, we headed over to Arby’s for lunch on the
way back. Once we were back, we were in for the day.
I was asked for an update on me… I
am still having issues after the last procedure (5/5). No more bleeding or
anything, just pain when urinating. But each day it feels slightly better. Of
course, I am still slamming a lot of water because that really helps flush
things. But I find that I am always trying to stay close to a restroom! I go in next week for a small surgery to implant
markers and a thing called a spaceor. Those are required prior to starting up
the radiation. I have a consult and then a physical test to verify the markers are
correct, and then I will get put on a schedule for 8-minute treatments once-a
day for 5 ½ weeks. Of course, we are not scheduling much because I have to work
around these daily trips to Corvallis, whenever they start! But, aside from the
issue I mentioned, I am doing well.
Wednesday, May 13th., 2026…… We were up and going and had the girls walked
and fed, then headed out to the gym and then to Kristi’s for breakfast. Both of
us had prescriptions ready at the pharmacy so we headed over and got those. We
stayed around the house for most of the day. I have been searching Facebook
Marketplace looking for a new side by side. I have found several but haven’t
decided yet which ones I would want. I did get a text later in the day saying
the truck was done so we headed off to pick it up. Cat went off on her own and
did some shopping while I diverted on the way home and went up to Stayton to
Power Motorsports to check out their used side by sides. They only have a
couple that I’m interested in. You can get them set up for off road/sand (not what I am wanting)....
or they can be more industrial for farm work (which is what I want).
These are some I am looking at…
Thursday, May 14th., 2026…… Today was burn day! Cathye checked (on the local burn hotline number) to see if it was indeed a burn day and we were good to go. We had diesel and we used 3 of the presto logs that we had bought yesterday. That really helps keep things going if you place them deep in the pile in various places. I spread almost 5 gallons of diesel on the pile and we got going. It took pretty easily but because the gardeners had dumped the weeds that were mixed with mulch, that made it pretty thick and heavy so the burn would be slow and hot for a long time. Cathye moved some of it around and that helped. She sure enjoys a good fire!
Friday, May 15th., 2026…… Since we burned yesterday and we only would have a few days before the
rains were coming, we decided to mow today. I had to run out and fill 4 5-gallon jugs of non-ethanol because we were
about out. I got the mowers topped off
and, along with Penny, we got it done. The only problem I had was that my side
of the yard (west of the driveway, had the sprinklers on last night so it was soggier
than I wanted. I struggled through and tore up the grass a bit in the extremely
wet spots, but I got through ok. We drove out to the burn pile and used the
water hose to rinse off the mowers, and we were done!
Saturday, May 16th., 2026…… We had an easy day so far. Walked
and fed the dogs and then worked around the yard a bit. Since we had some rain
last night, the fire is now pretty much out. Cat did go out and look and she
says it’s still pretty warm underneath so it’s smoldering still. But later it
would rain a lot so we’ll have to check it out tomorrow. Later, Heather and
Charley came by on their trip down from Seattle to see Heather’s dad. She is
teaching Cathye to crochet so they spent the afternoon working on that.
Later, we headed off to our Club
dance. While we were there, Cat made a deal with Mike to buy her Bolens
tractor.
He had been interested since
seeing it while he was here for our yard sale. Well, since he won big at the
casino last week, he decided he could afford it! I’ll have to get it out of the rv garage so
Cat can clean it up. We will load it in
my truck and deliver it next week. Later,
when we got back, we watched some tv a bit before calling it a night.
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