Sunday ; Still mostly cloudy, mild, intermittent rain. Been like this for a month !
Our neighbours Betty and Dave treated us to lunch today at Samosa Garden, the restaurant at Sanderson Farms, an East Indian family operated fruit stand ... and restaurant ... in Keremeos. It was a "thank you" from Betty and Dave for my assistance in their recent fifth wheel removal and park model installation. The East Indian buffet at Samosa Garden / Sanderson Farms is really good ! MMMMM ! ! !
This afternoon Joanne worked on weeding at lot 89. I installed a solar powered fluorescent light inside the new shed. The neighbours that we shared a load of finishing gravel with gave us two more wheelbarrows of gravel, almost enough to finish gravelling along the entire length of the back of the house. We still have one wheelbarrow of gravel from our load that we had placed aside for future touch ups, but now will use it to finish behind the house.
Monday ; A long, difficult day of running errands in Penticton, including ... a fight that started last night, escalated horribly on the drive to Penticton in the morning, and drags on still as I type this on Tuesday evening.
Tuesday ; Another day of our lives lost to fighting ! ! ! ! ! Sunny and hot ... but who the **** cares on a day like this ? ! ?
Wednesday ; Sunny and warm. Mosquitoes still bad, as they're likely to be for the rest of June.
Well ! ! ! Here we are, living in "the middle of nowhere", 13 km. / 8 miles from the nearest village, and this morning when I answered a knock on the door, standing there was ... a Jehovah's Witness ! Offering me an "invitation". SHEESH ! An old lady proselytizing and complaining about the mosquitoes. Maybe those "God's creatures" are telling you to move on, lady !
I spent half a day on a task that should have taken fifteen minutes ... if things had gone well. It's amazing how much time can be spent trying to configure a new Wi-Fi repeater to an old Wi-Fi router before proving inconclusively that the new Wi-Fi repeater cannot work with the old Wi-Fi router ! ! ! And no, no ... the two phone calls to technical support in India were of no help whatsoever ! ! !
Joanne planted nine plants on the newly rocked slope of our "front yard". Tough job ! And very little to show for a fifty buck expenditure on plants ! I assembled a work bench that I bought in Penticton on Monday. Nice work bench ! Fits nicely in a corner of the new shed ! I also did some "gardening", digging out two corner marker stakes of our property and one of our two utility connection boxes, all covered by topsoil and plantings done by our homeowners' association behind the roadside small rock wall along the front of our property. Yes, yes, this is the same homeowners' association whose president recently knocked on our door to advise us that, while he hadn't personally taken a look, one of the other board members had complained to him that in having our front slope "rocked" recently, "some of your rocks are touching some of our rocks". HA HA HA < SNORT > HA HA !
Thursday ; Another sunny, hot day. Summer is here ?
This morning I took apart and cleaned a space heater we bought at a thrift store in Penticton a few days ago. Then ... < insert ominous music here > ... it was time for Bo's semi-annual haircut. Gee, his hair grows a lot in six months !
In the afternoon we went over to do a teensy bit of work on the neighbours' new park model manufactured home. I continued working on the frustrating Wi-Fi router configuration, then fixed the non-functioning air conditioner. How could the set up crew chief not have checked the air conditioner function ? ! ? I'm glad I was able to get the air conditioner working. They really needed it this afternoon !
In the evening I prepared a letter and compiled all the receipts and documents needed to claim "out of jurisdiction" refunds on our truck and trailer insurance policies for the period of time we were in Mexico last winter. Canadian ( and American ) vehicle insurance is invalid in Mexico. Mexican vehicle insurance must be purchased, so ... the period of time in Mexico is eligible for refunds from our Canadian vehicle insurers. However, the hoops to jump through are a bit complicated. I spent a looooong time looking for one vital receipt that I had misplaced < fume >.
Friday ; Sunny and very warm today, although windy in the evening. Sunny enough that I baked a loaf of bread in the Sun Oven.
This morning I went into town to run a few quick errands. Bo came along for a “drivey”. When I returned home Joanne had taken a phone message for me. A potential client had called to get a quote on towing a very large fifth wheel trailer from Oliver to Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island. WHEW ! About 550km. / 350 miles plus a two hour ferry ride. Lots of money !
I spent the afternoon doing some minor maintenance. I baked a loaf of bread. I built a dog agility component for our yard. I mixed up a batch of Sully’s blood pressure medication. Grind pills, mix precisely with medicine compounding fluid.
I have just returned home, around midnight, after spending about three hours next door doing an emergency plumbing repair. Well ... that would be about half an hour doing an emergency plumbing repair ... and about 2½
hours bitching and gossiping. HA HA HA !
Saturday ; Another sunny, warm day spent working on a variety of home improvements projects, landscaping, trailer repairs , neighbours' repairs. Joanne went yard sale shopping ... and came home with a lot of stuff. Too much stuff, in my opinion, but ... < shrug > ... hard to argue with the functionality, quality, and good prices of all the stuff she bought. Well ... those half dead bedding plants might reasonably be criticized !
While putting away some repair supplies in the front trunk of the trailer, I smashed my head on the top edge of the steel door frame, splitting open the top of my scalp. WOW ... does it ever hurt ! ! !
DSK
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