Sunday ; Sunny and hot. Joanne cooked a beef pot roast in the Sun Oven. Late in the afternoon cumulonimbus thunderclouds built up and the evening was rainy with some thunder and lightning. DARN ... that's probably going to result in more forest fires nearby.
I spent much of the day disassembling the roof over our deck. It's finished. Ready for the contractor to put on a new roof in about two weeks. Actually, much of the time that
I spent on the job today was sitting at our picnic table removing brad nails from the scrapped wood so that it can be used as firewood kindling.
In the evening we watched some TV shows about Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlin Jenner. HMPH ... interesting !
Monday ; Sunny and hot. Humid ! Joanne cooked Jambalaya in the Sun Oven today.
We went into town this morning. Joanne went to Valu-Plus and bought some groceries. I went to PharmaSave and picked up a couple of prescription refills, then to Keremeos Home Building Centre to buy some soffit J-trim for the roofing replacement project.
I wanted to buy other items as well, but they didn't have what I wanted / needed.
I got two requests for trailer towing quotes today. ( RANT DELETED IN THE INTEREST OF GOOD CUSTOMER RELATIONS )
Tuesday ; Mostly sunny and hot.
Joanne left fairly early this morning to take our neighbour / friend Jeanine to Penticton Hospital for her fifth weekly chemotherapy session. They returned home fairly late in the afternoon. I worked on measuring and cutting the soffit J-trim for the entry landing and deck roof replacement project.
Yesterday's first potential trailer towing client phoned this morning. ( MORE DELETION IN THE INTEREST OF GOOD CUSTOMER RELATIONS )
Wednesday ; Mostly sunny, hot, humid.
This morning we loaded all the old roofing material / scrap I removed from our entry landing roof and deck roof, and hauled it to the Keremeos dump. Along with a nearly new RV short queen mattress that we were unable to give away. I ran ads in the local "used / bargain" websites advertising this mattress for free if picked up at our home, or delivered in the South Okanagan ( read that ... here to Penticton ) for $20. The closest we got to giving it away was a woman who got quite snippy with me when I refused to deliver it to Kelowna ... more than two hours driving time one way ... for twenty bucks ! So ... to the dump it went today.
After dumping our mattress and roofing materials ... KA-CHING ... $12.50 please ... we went to Keremeos Home Building Centre where I bought more soffit materials. After a late lunch at home I installed the fifth wheel hitch into the truck in preparation for a trailer delivery job tomorrow. Joanne did some gardening and watering. We took Bo to the dog park. We tried ... and mostly succeeded ... putting a stop to our squabbling that began about twenty-fours earlier.
In the evening, over barbecued steaks we watched MasterChef followed by Amazing Race Canada.
Thursday ; Sunny and hot.
This morning we headed to Penticton for a trailer towing job. We arrived at the client's, used my small air compressor to adjust the air pressure in each of the fifth wheel trailer's tires, and hitched the trailer to the truck. That small air compressor I bought at Harbour Freight in Yuma last winter is proving to be a very useful piece of equipment. It was a teensy bit of a difficult hitch up, because the trailer was parked in a condominium parking lot, and I had to approach it at a ninety degree angle and hitch up at a forty-five degree angle. We towed the trailer to Summerland and delivered it to a semi-rural property, parking it in a field. Easy money !
We returned to Penticton where we spent the afternoon running errands. Home Hardware, BMO ATM, Safeway, Real Canadian Fuel Bar, Dollarama, Sally Beauty, Dollar Tree, Wal-Mart, Rona, Salvation Army Thrift Store. SHEESH ! With a picnic lunch at Skaha Lake Beach Park thrown in.
Late in the afternoon we headed south on Hwy. 97 through Okanagan Falls to Oliver. We were too early for the evening event Joanne wanted to attend so we continued on to Osoyoos. We went to Island View RV Park to view the lot of a potential trailer towing client, at his request. He's concerned about my ( or anybody's ) ability to back his newly purchased thirty-nine foot long < blink blink > fifth wheel trailer into his lot. Yes, yes ... it will be difficult !
We returned to Oliver for the Thursday evening market and Music In The Park performance. I misunderstood, expecting the evening market to be a farmer's market. It wasn't, with only one farm market stand. The band performing was called "13 Broken Bones", a group of five overweight old men from Kelowna playing classic rock. Of course ... what else would a band of fat old men perform ? HA HA HA ! Their song selections were EXCELLENT, even if their musical skills weren't. But ... you know ... that's what classic rock from the early 70's was. Three chords ... and lots of enthusiasm ! Think "ZZ Top". HA HA HA ! Somewhat amusingly ( to us ) most of what they played, our reaction was ... "yeah ... saw the original artists perform that in Laughlin, Nevada / Palm Springs, California / Yuma, Arizona". HA HA HA !
Oliver's "Music In The Park" series is in support of the "Feed The Valley" initiative, so admission was by donation of canned goods, to be forwarded to the local food bank. When we were at Wal-Mart in Penticton earlier in the day we bought some spaghetti and spaghetti sauce and soups to donate. For supper we had some not particularly good poutine from a food vendor truck.
The concert ended at 8:30 PM. On our way home we stopped in Cawston to view the potential client's new ( to him ) thirty-nine foot fifth wheel trailer, again at his request. Yes, yes ... it's huge. And it's going to be very difficult to get into his lot at Island View in Osoyoos. That's why he's going to pay me the big bucks. HA HA HA !
By the time we arrived back home at 10 PM Bo had been alone for twelve hours. No "accident" in the house. In the ten and a half years we've had him, there's never been an "accident". Good dog, Bo !
Friday ; Partially sunny, brief light rain around lunch time, hot, humid.
This morning we unloaded tools and yesterday's purchases from the truck, then removed the fifth wheel hitch, and parked the truck back underneath the truck camper.
This afternoon we picked a pail full of apricots from one of the apricot trees here in our RV park's orchard. We shared the apricots with our next door neighbour, since it was their step ladder that we had to use to get at the really nicely sun blushed / "sun kissed" apricots higher up in the tree.
At my desk / computer I did yesterday's credit card accounting, journal entry, "self-employment earnings" accounting, e-mail, etc. Joanne made apricot "compote" to mix with yoghurt, and a peach "kuchen" dessert. We had supper while watching the first episode of a new season of Doc Martin. WOO-HOO !
Late in the evening I did monthly computer maintenance ; scans and backups.
Saturday ; Partially sunny, warm, sometimes windy.
This morning we disinfected our five gallon water jug. Joanne did laundry. In the afternoon I worked on our entry landing roof and deck roof replacement project.
I removed the aluminum J-trim for the soffit on the deck roof, then measured and cut new vinyl J-trim. Then I worked on measuring and cutting fascia trim for the entry landing. I did not finish that. We visited our neighbour / friend Jeanine. In the evening we had a movie date, watching "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay". HA HA HA !
DSK
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