Sunday ; This morning we went into town to see Kars Under The “K”, the annual classic car show in Keremeos. HA HA HA … did you know … ? ? ? A 1974 Hornet is now a “classic” ! HA HA HA … should have held on to the first new car I ever bought, a 1972 limited edition The Green Hornet … HA HA HA ( SNORT ) HA HA !
This afternoon our RV park’s social committee organized a group outing, a float down the Similkameen River on tubes and rafts. I went … it was fun ! We entered the river at our park’s burn pile, and floated about 5 km. / 3 mi. downstream. Most of the time the river was shallow and moving relatively slowly. Occasionally there were deep and / or fast sections. It’s really fun to shoot through the sections of little rapids.
Monday ; Another beautiful, sunny, hot day. I spent half the day working with our neighbour Gerry, repairing his damaged awning. And … we succeeded in repairing the two damaged sections. Two heads, four hands, some brute force, some hardware, and it’s ( almost ) as good as new.
We sold our old Wi-Fi phone today to an Alberta couple who were driving through to Vancouver Island and serendipitously saw our ad in the Okanagan Valley Bargain Hunter while they were in Kelowna this past weekend. They are Snowbirds / winter RV‘ers, and are already Vonage VoIP subscribers. They tried to get a stand alone Wi-Fi phone from Vonage, but the stand alone Wi-Fi phones are no longer available from Vonage. So them seeing our ad was like a match made in heaven.
The nearby forest fire persists. It’s been burning for five days now. It doesn’t seem to get any bigger, nor does it seem to get any smaller. It seems to be burning happily within its own defined area. And as long as it doesn’t spread significantly, I guess there are higher priority fires to fight.
Tuesday ; There are now 376 wildfires burning in the BC Interior. The sky is hazy with smoke. I was ill today, and spent most of the day in bed, reading and snoozing.
Wednesday ; Today we sadly remembered Teddy, our sweet little baby cat that died one year ago. Well, he was neither little nor a baby, but he was when we got him 17 years earlier, and I always thought of him as our little baby cat. We miss him !
My next work project was going to be repacking the trailer’s wheel bearings with fresh grease. I was going to do one hub per day over a four day period. Today I did one. I removed the tire and wheel, removed the hub off the axle, disassembled the hub, removed the bearings, greased them, reassembled the bearings into the hub, installed a new bearing seal, and reinstalled the hub onto the axle. What a filthy job ! I put the wheel and tire into the bed of the truck so that I can take it to a tire shop to have the weather beaten valve stem replaced. After doing one, I decided not to do the other three. There seemed to be plenty of grease in the bearings. There was no water and no dirt. I don’t think repacking the bearings is necessary yet.
Thursday ; This afternoon we drove to Penticton for the second of five days of PeachFest, the annual festival celebrating peach harvest time. We ran a few errands in Penticton before heading for Okanagan Lake Park. We spent a few hours in the late afternoon and early evening watching a variety of entertainment on the main stage. At 8 PM we left Okanagan Lake Park and drove across town to Skaha Lake Park to see the sandcastle competition. That was the main reason why Joanne wanted to go today. It was a bit disappointing. There were only a few entries, far less than the organizers had expected, obviously. After walking along the beach viewing the entries, we went for a late supper of fast food. Boy, that’s one thing the Americans do so much better than Canada ; fast foods !
Well, isn’t that a strange Internet scam ? ! ? I’ve just received a plea for money, ostensibly from an old acquaintance of ours. I wonder if her e-mail address book was hacked into and stolen ?
Yesterday I took a trailer tire to “Big O Tires” in Penticton and had a cracked rubber valve stem replaced with a metal valve stem. Today I reinstalled that tire on the trailer, and removed another tire with a cracked valve stem. I’ll also have that one changed to a metal valve stem, probably tomorrow when I start our work day by picking up a trailer at a campground in Penticton. I also installed the new fridge igniter electronic control module that I purchased yesterday. Yup … that solved the problem ! The fridge now ignites properly on propane function.
Saturday ; We got up very early again this morning, in order to be in Penticton before 9 AM so that we could run a few errands before starting work. I took another trailer tire to Big O Tires and had a metal valve stem installed. Then we went to Staples to buy many CANADA scribblers on sale, to give away to children in Mexico next winter, along with CANADA pencils. We picked up our first trailer of the day, in Penticton, and transported it to Osoyoos for cleaning. We picked up and / or delivered five more trailers in Osoyoos. WHEW … first time we’ve done six in a day. I guess we’re getting faster and better. Today we did six in a bit less time than we took to do five, a few weeks ago. We ran a couple more errands in Osoyoos, then headed for home.
The Spotted Lake fire was extinguished. It burned from the highway right down to the edge of Spotted Lake, and up the surrounding mountain. It was stopped just a few feet from at least three residences. There was fire retardant foam residue on the highway. It looked like pretty impressive fire fighting. The Tweddle Creek fire is still burning, but weakly. We stopped in Keremeos on the way home to refill a propane tank.
WHEW … long, hard day !
DSK
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