This morning I exercised our little generator. We walked Ozzie. I paid our bi-monthly electricity bill. YIKES ! Perhaps we should have used less electricity ( room heaters ) and more propane ( furnace ) for heating ? Joanne laundered my liquid shoe polish stained red jacket. Almost all of the stains washed out.
This afternoon I paid some bills, and worked on our income tax returns. I finished the basics of our returns and now I am working on determining the results of transferring allowable expenses / deductions / pension income splits between spouses. That's more complicated and time consuming than it sounds !
Monday ; Cloudy, cool. Temperature above freezing day time and night time. Snow all gone.
Went to the swimming pool and did cardiac rehabilitation aquatic exercises this afternoon. WHEW ! Hard work. I appreciate having Joanne as my workout partner.
Tuesday ; Penticton
Cloudy, cool. Wasted more than half an hour this morning searching for Emma, who "disappeared" just before I was going to administer her morning medications. Joanne found her squeezed in behind my desk. < fume > Bad girl, Emma ! You scared us !
Spent the afternoon running errands in Penticton. This is the first time since I began cardiac rehabilitation in mid-December that I have participated in shopping errands.
I hate Wal-Mart shopping !
Wednesday ; Sunny and ... mild ? Is it warm enough to call it "mild" ?
This morning we took care of Ozzie's dental and ear care. I did a teensy bit of outdoor spring work. After lunch and a nap ( for me and the animals ) we went to the swimming pool to do cardiac rehabilitation aquatic exercises. Before cooking Lake Winnipeg Pickerel for supper I sent marketing e-mails to exhibitors at the upcoming BC Interior RV Show, offering my trailer towing services to transport trailers ( and truck campers ) to and/or from the show in Penticton.
We ate our pickerel dinner while watching Survivor, followed by 9-1-1.
Thursday ; Cold. Intermittent heavy rain.
First thing this morning I received an inquiry from an RV dealer in Kamloops, about providing trailer towing services to and from the upcoming BC Interior RV Show in Penticton, for two extremely large "park trailers", kind of a hybrid between a travel trailer and a park model manufactured home. These are trailers, but are not meant for travelling. They are forty-four feet long !
I spent much of today preparing quotes and planning logistics for transporting these two very large trailers from Kamloops to Penticton, and back to Kamloops again after the show. AND ... preparing for ANOTHER job the dealership hired me to do ; transport a large fifth wheel trailer from our home RV park to Kamloops tomorrow ! So ... that's like five trailer towing jobs in one fell swoop ! KA-CHING ! Too bad I spent so much time outdoors in the heavy rain today getting ready.
Joanne spent the day in Penticton running errands by herself. After she returned home late in the afternoon she helped me get hitched up to the large fifth wheel trailer we will be towing to Kamloops tomorrow.
Ozzie had an abscess on his front leg burst this morning. YUCK ! I bandaged his leg. He pulled the bandage off ! I bandaged his leg using a different type of gauze. That worked ! In Penticton today Joanne bought him an Elizabethan collar which he is wearing tonight. Poor Ozzie ! He's a cone head !
Friday ; home to Kamloops & return
HMPH ! ! ! Another episode of "Highway Thru Hell" ! ! !
We left home this morning shortly before 10:30 AM, with a very large, very heavy fifth wheel trailer in tow, heading for Kamloops. West on Hwy. 3 to Princeton where we stopped at Kal Tire to adjust the air pressure in all of the trailer's tires. Then north on Hwy. 5A to the Coquihalla Okanagan Connector, then west to Merritt. We refilled with diesel at Extra Foods Fuel Bar in Merritt before continuing north on the Coquihalla Highway from Merritt to Kamloops. We commented on how this seemed to be the first time we have driven on the Coquihalla in decent weather.
At Kamloops we crossed the city from west to east on Trans-Canada Highway 1, then turned north on Hwy. 5 for a few miles to Jubilee RV Centre where we dropped off the fifth wheel trailer at 2 PM. Another job well done ! By 2:30 PM we were leaving Jubilee RV Centre. We parked at the Kamloops Tourist Information Centre for a few minutes to eat the picnic lunch Joanne had prepared.
Back on TCH1 we crossed the city from east to west, then turned south on the Coquihalla Highway, known locally as "The Coke". A few miles south of Kamloops ... WTF ? ! ? A snow blizzard ? ? ? With zero visibility whiteout conditions ? ? ? ? ?
< sputter > BUT ... we had just come through here a couple of hours ago in the opposite direction and ... it was spring ! ! ! < shaking my head in despair > The horrible winter blizzard conditions persisted until a few miles from Merritt. We refilled with diesel again in Merritt, then when we turned east on the Coquihalla Okanagan Connector at Merritt the blizzard conditions resumed, even worse than on The Coke ! We crawled along at about 50 km. per hr. / 30 MPH from Merritt all the way up the Connector and then south on Hwy. 5A to Princeton. Just before Princeton the weather cleared again. From Princeton eastbound on Hwy. 3 to home it was spring again ! < blink blink >
We arrived back home around 6 PM. Joanne loves these kind of trailer towing jobs. Reasonably profitable, reasonably easy job, there and back in one relatively easy day !
Saturday ; We woke this morning to find snow falling. Lots of snow falling ! < sigh > Fortunately, the snow stopped falling by noon, and it had all melted by late afternoon.
So ... this morning's heavy snowfall somewhat threw a monkey wrench into my plans for today, which included outdoor spring work. Nevertheless, after our afternoon cardiac rehab pool exercises, we did manage to get a teensy bit of work done outside. Although it was pretty chilly by late afternoon after the sun set behind the mountain across the river. Most importantly, we got the fifth wheel hitch removed from the truck bed and the truck parked underneath the camper again.
DSK
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