Sunday ; Sunny and chilly.
After an early ( for us ) lunch we headed to Penticton to attend the 2 PM concert of the Penticton Tune-Agers, a seniors' choir and orchestra that our neighbour / friend Jeanine is a member of, along with two other residents of our RV park. As this year is Canada's 150th birthday, it was a concert of mostly Canadian songs. Very enjoyable !
After the concert we took the truck for its annual spring time fluids service ; change the oil and filter, lubricate the front suspension points and front driveshaft, change the front differential and rear differential fluids, and change the transfer case fluid. Close to four hundred bucks ! And while we were there at Great Canadian Oil Change we drove the truck through their car wash, one of the few car washes I've ever seen that can accommodate a dually pickup truck. Shopping at Dollar Tree, shopping at Wal-Mart, and we were heading home around 6 PM, arriving home around 7 PM. WHEW ...
tired !
Very late in the evening I made reservations at a campground near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, for the weekend of the Folk On The Rocks Music Festival in
mid-July.
Monday ; Cloudy, cool, intermittent light rain.
Made some phone calls this morning. Prepared for a meeting with our investment advisor and an appointment with my cardiologist tomorrow. Activated our new Canadian cell phone. And you know how much I love our semi-annual phone set up drama ! ! !
Spent the evening reconciling our monthly bank statements and updating and analyzing our investment files in advance of tomorrow's meeting.
Tuesday ; Sunny and mild.
This morning we headed to Penticton for a day of appointments and errands. Once in Penticton I dropped Joanne off at Value Village, then ran some quick and easy errands. I dropped off a redundant cell phone at the recycling place, got a tire rotation estimate at a tire place, and a truck repair estimate at an automotive service place.
I picked Joanne up at Value Village and drove to the medical centre adjacent to Penticton Hospital for an appointment with my cardiologist. Joanne went to another thrift store while I was seeing my doctor. When I was finished at the cardiologist's she picked me up at the medical centre and we drove to Cherry Lane Mall to buy a few items at London Drugs and then have a late lunch in the food court. After lunch we drove to our investment advisor's office for an annual investment review. Not much to review ; the stock market has been reasonably generous to us this past year. Not much point in changing anything when everything is going well. Don't try to fix what ain't broke !
After our meeting with Judy ( our investment advisor ) we went shopping at Wal-Mart, then grocery shopping at Superstore. We left Penticton about 6 PM and arrived back home about 7 PM. Tired !
Wednesday ; Sunny and warm. It's about time !
This morning I did some schedule planning, and made some appointments.
This afternoon we gave Bo a bath. Joanne did some laundry. I unloaded and put away the contents of a large tote full of stuff that we bought in Yuma, mostly guy stuff that
I bought. I prepared fresh burger patties and once again barbecued Dan-O-Cheeseburgers for supper. THWACK ! Another home run ! We ate supper while watching Survivor.
I spent the late evening reviewing all the documents sent in support of our park's upcoming rescheduled annual general meeting, reading the more important ones out loud to Joanne, and discussing them with her. What an aggravating and depressing exercise. We've been residents in this park for over ten years, and political stupidity and ineptitude have been a constant !
Thursday ; Sunny and warm. Brief but violent thunderstorm in the evening.
This morning we headed into town ( Keremeos ) for my 11 AM appointment at the lab at the health clinic. I had blood drawn, and pissed into a jar. We drove to the Legion in town and voted at the advance poll. As election officials working on the upcoming election day, we can't vote on election day. I dropped off some new prescriptions at the pharmacy. We bought some fresh produce at Sanderson Farms, then drove back home for lunch.
After lunch it was time to drive back into town again for Joanne's 2 PM doctor’s appointment. I dropped her off at the doctor's office, then went back to the pharmacy to pick up my prescriptions. I returned to the health clinic to wait for Joanne. A resident of our RV park that we don't know very well came in for a doctor's appointment. She and
I chatted while I waited for Joanne to be finished, and she waited to see the same doctor as Joanne.
Back at home Joanne began to work on planting our vegetable garden. I worked on medication records keeping. I'm so well organized ... ( read that "OCD" ). I barbecued jerk chicken for supper, and in the evening we watched Amazing Race. Late in the evening I tried, but failed because of the thunderstorm, to send an electronic birthday card to Amelia.
Friday ; Happy 16th Birthday to Joanne's niece Amelia
Sunny and warm.
Around noon our next door "weekender" neighbour from the Lower Mainland / Vancouver area showed up to clean out the shed on his lot. He and his wife have sold their lot. He had a friend with him to help, with a pickup truck and small utility trailer. Nevertheless ... there was a lot more stuff in the shed and the yard than could be fit into the truck and trailer. Joe and I reached a "deal". I will clean everything out of his yard and shed, within the next nine days ... the new lot owner takes possession in ten days ... and I will sell as much of his stuff as I can, for a contingency sales fee.
Not surprisingly, Joanne and I spent the rest of the afternoon hauling stuff from Joe's yard and shed to our yard, and sorting / cleaning / fixing it ; to sell, to donate, to discard. < sigh > Seemed like a much larger job that I thought it would be. And we're far from finished.
Anybody want to buy a bear skull ? ! ? < rolling my eyes > I was in favour of taking it to Yuma and displaying it in one of our cactus gardens. Joanne vetoed that idea. HA HA HA !
Saturday ; Sunny, mild, windy.
We spent most of the day dealing with the next door neighbour's shed contents. We brought stuff over from their shed to our picnic table, cleaned it, photographed it, catalogued it, and found places to store it until sold. Despite all the effort, there doesn't seem to be all that much of value in there ! All of our efforts will certainly be "under paid". And the neighbour will probably be disappointed in how much money ends up in his pocket when all is said and done. Oh, well ... another argument for NOT continuously acquiring "stuff" !
At 5 PM we departed for Oliver, about an hour and a quarter way. When we arrived in Oliver we went directly to Frank Venables Theatre and bought two tickets for tonight's performance by SOAP ... South Okanagan Amateur Players ... of a Vancouver playwright's play "Since You Left Us". Once we had our tickets we went to Oliver Garden Restaurant for an AYCE / ETYS Chinese buffet meal. It was our first time eating there, and while the "smorgasbord" had less choices than most Chinese buffet restaurants, the food was very good. We will definitely eat there again. In the restaurant we bumped into old neighbours / friends Mitch and Diane. They were residents of Riverside RV Park Resort when we moved in more than ten years ago. And ten and a half years ago, Mitch sold us our first lot in the park when he was the park developer's first sales agent. And a few years later, when he was working for a Penticton RV dealer he gave me my first independent trailer towing job, that became the genesis of Similkameen Trailer Towing.
Nice to see you again, Mitch and Diane !
After supper we returned to Frank Venables Theatre for the play. It was ... okay. Perhaps a bit overpriced for community theater, but then again ... we're suffering "sticker shock" over Canadian prices as we do every year upon our return from Arizona. The play was over at 9:30 PM, and we didn't arrive home until 11 PM. As pleasant as the drive between Oliver and home is during daylight, we both dislike night driving.
DSK
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