Sunday ; Mostly sunny and warm.
Spent the morning doing minor repairs. In the afternoon we gave Bo a haircut. And trimmed the hair and nails of a neighbour / friend's dog.
Monday ; Mostly sunny, warm, humid. A very long day of running errands and shopping in Penticton.
Tuesday ; Sunny and warm in the morning and evening, raining in the afternoon.
I was up way too early this morning in order to take the truck into town to have a repair done at K Mountain Auto Repair. After having a rear brake caliper replaced I returned home and went back to sleep, napping with Sully until noon.
In the afternoon Joanne went into town for another doctor's appointment. I worked on minor maintenance projects. After she returned home late in the afternoon we took Bo for a long walk, ending up visiting at a neighbour's for quite awhile.
Wednesday ; Sunny and mild, a bit windy ... severe mosquitoes !
Today we were visited by our Yuma neighbours / friends Terry and Judy, and their dog Spanky. After all these years as a "traveller", Bo is not the least bit surprised when one of his dog friends / "pack members" from one part of North America shows up somewhere else thousands of miles away. He just takes it in stride. "OH ... Spanky ... haven't seen him since Yuma more than two months ago ... what's for lunch ?" HA HA HA !
Terry and Judy are on their way from their summer home in the Vancouver area to elsewhere in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley. We had supper with them and visited for the evening. They "boondocked" overnight in a neighbour's driveway. Their truck and trailer were too long to fit into our yard. Lord knows, we tried !
Thursday ; Sunny and warm, still severe mosquitoes, as is likely to be the case for the entire month of June.
After our friends Terry and Judy ( and their dog Spanky ) departed this morning we got busy. And had a very productive day. I helped Joanne get the laundry underway, then she helped me replace the roller blind inside the entry door of the truck camper. She continued with laundry and I replaced the screening in the upper section of the truck camper's entry screen door. I spent much of the afternoon replacing the five sections of damaged vinyl siding on the house, one section damaged in two places, for a total of six damaged areas ! It was a difficult job, with a lot of "learning curve", and I'm proud of accomplishing it !
You know ... we live in a "secure" ( ? ) gated community. It should be reasonable to expect that we can go away for six months in the winter, and return to an undamaged house ! ! ! Is the neighbour who lacks the courage to "fess up" listening ? ! ?
Found Fiddleheads at a grocery store in Penticton a few days ago, and bought some, despite Joanne's protests about cost. Six bucks for enough Fiddleheads for one serving for each of us. Haven't had Fiddleheads in many years, and this is certainly the first time we've found Fiddleheads available west of Ottawa. Ontario. These were grown at a Lower Mainland / Vancouver area mushroom farm. Maybe to test the demand in the local / B.C. market ? Had them for supper tonight. Very good !
Friday ; Mostly sunny and warm. The severe mosquitoes make it difficult to get much done outdoors. Today we worked on storing underneath our house a twelve foot long box of vinyl siding sections.
Saturday ; Today started out sunny and warm. We set up the Sun Oven and put in a beef pot roast. And ... of course ... shortly thereafter the clouds rolled in ! < sigh ... rolling eyes > And into the oven in the house went the pot roast.
Very reluctantly, this morning I allowed myself to be dragged to the nearby SunKatchers RV Park annual yard sale. And ... < blink blink > ... I bought fourteen items ! ! ! How did that happen ? !
DSK
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