October 11, 2005

October 11, 2005

Vancouver, B.C.

YEAR 2 DAY 116

 

Today was sunny and cool.

This morning I got up early to get ready to take the trailer into MRO RV Services in Burnaby for flooring replacement. After walking Bo, feeding the animals, and showering, I did regular preventive maintenance, put some oil in the truck, and we were ready to go. We drove in very stressful rush hour traffic to MRO RV Services in Burnaby, arriving about 9:15 A.M.. They were ready and waiting for the trailer. I backed it into their shop and unhitched. While they got started on ripping out the carpeting we drove over to Banner Flooring to select our new flooring. The staff there weren't as helpful as we would have liked, and their selection wasn't as great as we had expected. They sent us to Centura Flooring, a wholesale supplier of theirs. The staff at Centura were very helpful, and the selection was much better. We made a selection, then returned to Banner Flooring. We were astonished at the pricing. The cost of the flooring material was much, much higher than we had anticipated. After settling with Banner Flooring on the material, we returned to MRO to advise them on what we had selected, and to pick up a bag of food we had left there. We didn't want to have the bag of food in the truck with Teddy and Bo while we were shopping for flooring. Finally, we headed for Dwight's and Jennifer's. We arrived at their home shortly after noon.

We got settled into their guest room, then had lunch. I napped for awhile. Banner Flooring phoned to advise that they had gone to MRO and measured the trailer to determine exactly how much flooring material was required. I'm sort of choking on the cost ! I went outside and worked on painting the stove cover. I scraped and sanded the area where the paint was loose and flaking, then applied a first coat of spray paint. I'll do another coat tomorrow. I read the newspaper for awhile while Joanne and Jennifer prepared supper.

We had dinner, then Dwight lit a fire in the fireplace, and we spent the evening sitting in the living room, chatting, enjoying the fire. Nobody enjoyed it more than Teddy. Since we left our Ottawa home in June, 2004, Teddy hasn't had an opportunity to lie in front of a fireplace, snoozing on a blanket. He adores snoozing in front of a fire in a fireplace. Jennifer still had some computer work to do tonight, so about 9:00 P.M. we went down to the guest room so Jennifer could get her work done. Teddy and Bo went to sleep, Joanne did some crosswords, I did today's accounting and journal entry.

DSK