After walking Ozzie this morning we visited briefly with our neighbour / friend Jeanine. This afternoon I did some minor maintenance work on the truck and minivan. I did some month end accounting, and bill paying, and reconciliations. I did some online research and shopping for valve extenders for the truck tires.
Monday ; Sunny and cold.
Joanne left this morning for a day of running errands in Penticton by herself. Emma began sneezing frequently, apparently with a relapse / recurrence of her upper respiratory infection. I did a bit of outdoor work, and prepared for our upcoming trailer towing jobs.
Joanne returned home around 5 PM just as I was leaving to go to the swimming pool for cardiac rehabilitation aquatic exercises. So ... she joined me. Late in the evening
I completed our income tax returns, then electronically filed and paid them.
Tuesday ; home to Kamloops and return
We left home at 10 AM this morning, heading to Kamloops to pick up a forty-four foot trailer to be delivered to the BC Interior RV Show in Penticton this weekend. We decided to leave Ozzie at home today. West on Hwy. 3 to Princeton, 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 / "Highway Thru Hell" / "the Coke" to Kamloops.
We arrived at Jubilee RV at 1 PM, checked in with them, then left to go have lunch and shop at Princess Auto, returning to Jubilee RV at 2 PM, our scheduled trailer pick up time. We hooked up to the first of two forty-four foot long trailers that we are transporting to Penticton for Jubilee RV, and headed out. WOW ! Twenty-one feet of truck, three feet of trailer tongue, forty-four feet of trailer, total length sixty-eight feet !
On our way back home, southbound on "the Coke", between Kamloops and Merritt ...
< sputter > ... we drove through TWO blizzards ! ! ! Count 'em ... TWO ! ANOTHER episode of "Highway Thru Hell" ! ! ! Unfortunately, that resulted in the shiny new trailer getting dirty. And there is nowhere for me to get it cleaned before delivering it to the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton for the BC Interior RV Show in a couple of days.
We arrived back home at 5:30 PM. MMMMM ... I barbecued lamb chops for supper.
Wednesday ; home to Kamloops and return ... again
Sunny and cold.
We left home at 10 AM, again heading for Kamloops. At Merritt we refilled with diesel fuel again at Extra Foods Fuel Bar. WOW ! A near empty fuel tank on the truck takes $130 to refill ! We arrived in Kamloops right on time at 1 PM. The client was not pleased that the trailer I transported yesterday got dirty because I drove through two blizzards on the "Highway Thru Hell". So ... he was insistent that I take an alternative route today, through Vernon and Kelowna to avoid the likelihood of bad weather on the Coquihalla Highway or the Coquihalla Okanagan Connector. I HATE driving through Kelowna, especially with a 68 foot long rig ... during rush hour ! ! ! BUT ... what the client wants ... the client gets.
We left Kamloops at 1:45 PM driving east on Trans-Canada Highway 1, then southeast and south on Hwy. 97 through Vernon and Kelowna < sigh >. We arrived at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton at 5:10 PM. We had the trailer parked and unhitched by 5:30 PM. We refilled the truck with diesel fuel again before leaving Penticton, and were back home by 7 PM. We hitched up again to the trailer that we towed from Kamloops yesterday, and that we left here at home today.
Just before Joanne had supper ready, I received a phone call from an RCMP Sargeant in Hay River, Northwest Territories. He was phoning to discuss a complaint I made about eight months ago regarding an incident I witnessed of an RCMP officer using excessive force during an arrest of a drunk Indian / inebriated Indigenous man. After a 7½ minute phone conversation ... the RCMP Sargeant did almost all the talking ... his perspective and mine remain different. He will have to elevate my complaint to the next level. < shrug > Tough shit, pal !
Thursday ; Penticton
Raining and cold. BRRRRR !
This morning as we were getting ready to leave home to deliver the trailer to the South Okanagan Events Centre for 10 AM, the client phoned at 8:15 AM. He needed the trailer there right now ! So away we went ! We got the trailer to the South Okanagan Events Centre at 9:30 AM, and to our surprise, we were required to drive it into the building and get it situated. The event's advance communications and preparations left a lot to be desired. The client was ... not as well advised in advance by the show's organizers as he should have been.
Nevertheless ... we got the trailer into the building and situated ... right beside the trailer we had left in the parking lot last night and which someone else had already brought into the building this morning. We unhitched, got out of the building, and left the clients working feverishly to have everything ready for the three day show which starts tomorrow. We went to Safeway, bought some halibut, and deposited our trailer delivery payment cheque into our bank's ATM. We went to a couple of Dollar Stores looking for an item, then drove home, arriving back home at noon.
Okay ! Two very large trailers from the Kamloops dealership into the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton for the BC Interior RV Show. This four part job is half
done ! On Sunday evening we will have to return to the South Okanagan Events Centre, remove both trailers from the building, put one in the parking lot, bring one home, then spend Monday and Tuesday returning the trailers to Kamloops. And this afternoon ... I got hired to do another job ... next Wednesday. HMPH ! Pretty busy for a retired guy ! I have laughed at a lot of my contemporaries over the last thirteen years for being "failures at retirement". I need to be careful not to fall into that category
myself ! HA HA HA !
Friday ; Cloudy and cool.
Late this morning we headed into Keremeos. We refilled our five gallon water jug, then went to Benja Thai Restaurant where we met Kofa Ko-op / Yuma, Arizona neighbours David and Shauna ( Canadians from Manitoba ) for an early ( for us ) lunch. We had a leisurely, great lunch, chatting about my cardiac bypass surgery and what transpired over the winter season at Kofa Ko-op. After lunch Joanne invited David and Shauna
( and their wonderful little dog Zona ) back to our home for some tea and more chatting. We had an enjoyable visit for the rest of the afternoon at our home. Zona enjoyed destroying Ozzie's plush monkey toy. HA HA HA ... good dog, Zona.
After our visitors left about 4:30 PM we took Ozzie for a walk, then Joanne and I went to the swimming pool for a cardiac rehabilitation aquatic exercise session. Thank you for encouraging me, my dear.
Saturday ; Light rain, cold.
Just the sort of day that is conducive to laziness, in my opinion. So ... I blew off the morning, snoozing and reading in bed. In the afternoon I trimmed my beard, then we gave Ozzie a haircut on his head and face. We had left the hair on his head long, and now that he is wearing a cone ( Elizabethan collar ) he's getting matted around the ears. After we cut the hair on his head and face much shorter, he's not as cute. SHHHHH ... don't tell him ! HA HA HA !
I removed a short section of baseboard moulding in the bathroom that needs replacing. I did some desk / computer work.
DSK
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