Sunday ;
Sunny,
hot, windy. Joanne roasted a boneless leg of lamb in the Sun Oven
today. Good thing old folks like us can get those reverse mortgage
things on our homes to pay for such indulgences. HA HA HA HA HA !
Again today I did preventive
maintenance on the truck, draining the fuel / water separator at the
bottom of the fuel filter. I removed the solar rope lights around
our deck rail. Joanne sanded and stained the deck rail … while I
napped with the animals. HA HA HA ! I updated our investment
summary file and posted my weekly journal to my blog. And spent a
whole lot of time searching for something that I was certain I had
brought home from Yuma, but could not find. Eventually
I found it !
Monday
;
Sunny
and hot.
This morning Joanne went into
town by herself to run some errands. She picked up a prescription
for me. She went to buy produce at Sanderson Farms and discovered …
a fresh batch of Morel mushrooms, even better than last week’s
batch ! WOO-HOO ! She found out from the owner of Sanderson Farms
that a “local” is finding and picking the Morel mushrooms way up
at Cathedral Lakes.
This afternoon Joanne spot
sanded and stained the gazebo. I sanded the top and seats of our
cedar picnic table. WHEW … tough work even with a powerful belt
sander. I wonder how much cedar sawdust one can inhale before
causing a respiratory problem ? ! ? HA HA HA !
Working
as a team we made a superb
supper. We started with an ear of corn
I roasted on the barbecue.
We
ate that, then
I roasted small potatoes while Joanne sauteed Morel mushrooms. I
barbecued a thick, marinated steak while Joanne made cream sauce for
the mushrooms and the potatoes. Corn, steak, creamed Morel
mushrooms, creamed baby potatoes. Afterwards … I roasted fresh
peaches on the barbecue, and Joanne made Peach Mint Julep with them,
using fresh, home grown mint leaves.
Hang in there, coronary
bypasses … you’ll be just fine. HA HA HA < SNORT > HA HA !
Tuesday
;
Sunny
and warm early in the day, severe thunderstorms late in the afternoon
and evening. Heavy rain, thunder, lightening, brief power
interruptions, frequent satellite TV interruptions.
This
morning we did weekly Ozzie dental and ear care. In the afternoon we
gave him a bath. I
exercised our little generator. I cleaned the shower drain using a
little drain cleaner tool. YUCK ! That must be mostly my hair
clogging the shower drain, n’est-ce pas ?
We
went to the swimming pool around 4 PM to exercise, but … there were
too many other people … including a bunch of children. We left and
came back round 6:30 PM. Had the place all to ourselves. In the
evening we watched Amazing Race Canada. We
certainly are eager for Dave and Irina to be eliminated ! What
an obnoxious pair !
Wednesday
; Penticton
Sunny
and hot. We
spent the day in Penticton, running errands. While Joanne was at the
pain clinic, having her first physiotherapy and acupuncture treatment
for a sore shoulder I went to the cosmetology school and got a
haircut and beard trim.
Thursday
;
Sunny
and hot. This
afternoon I removed the expanding foam that
I had recently installed
around a plumbing pipe in a kitchen cupboard, and that the mice
chewed through to regain access to that cupboard. I sealed around
the pipe opening in the floor of the cupboard with RV
weatherstripping putty. I hope that will solve the mice problem more
effectively than the expanding foam did ! Wish me luck !
This
afternoon we went to the swimming pool to do cardiac
rehab
exercises.
We shared the pool with a brother and sister duo, she about twelve
years old or so, he about ten years old or so. Probably
grandchildren of a park resident. Their father, who should have been
supervising the children in the pool, sat outside on a golf cart …
and smoked cigarettes. I suspect he may have had
one
too many “cold ones” ! The unsupervised children were relatively
well behaved,
and the girl was trying to “supervise”
her younger brother, but … ten year old boys are careless and use
poor judgment. That’s why they need supervision ! ! ! And
that’s how I got kicked in the abdomen as the boy swam past me.
I’m pretty pissed off, but not at the boy. I’m
pissed off at the lazy, irresponsible father on the golf cart ! ! !
Get your lazy ( perhaps drunk ) ass off the golf cart and keep an
eye on your children in the pool … asshole !
I’m an old man with relatively recent open heart surgery and I
don’t appreciate being kicked in the stomach ! ! !
Friday
;
Sunny
and hot. First Joanne cooked a stew in the Sun Oven, then when that
was done she baked an apple and rhubarb crisp in
the Sun Oven,
using rhubarb from our garden, and Transparent Apples picked in our
park’s orchard this morning.
I
did
a bit of maintenance on the truck and on my bicycle. Joanne went
into town to refill our five gallon water jug and pick up the rest of
my prescription refills at the pharmacy. I reconciled and paid our
monthly MasterCard billing. We went to the swimming pool, but not to
do cardiac exercising as we usually do. Today we did some exercises
for Joanne’s painful shoulder. Back at home I began a review and
purge of my “magician’s tool box”. I didn’t make much
progress !
Saturday
;
Sunny
and hot.
With extreme reluctance I
renewed our home insurance policy this morning. I was unable to find
a suitable alternative because all insurance companies are currently
unwilling to write new policies due to local wildfires. HMPH ! And
the 69% premium increase on our current policy is in line with what
all the other insurers are doing, claiming huge cost increases over
the last few years due to wildfires in BC, and before that, in Fort
McMurray, Alberta. HMPH !
This afternoon I reviewed and
purged my “magic tool box”. In the box were two New Years’ Eve
“poppers” that I had picked up many years ago and put into the
box for potential use in magic. Today I decided to get rid of them.
I “popped” one in the living room at Joanne as she was watching
TV. YIKES ! ! ! It “exploded” with a loud bang, and spewed
confetti all over Joanne … and the rest of the living room. She
was NOT impressed. OOOOOPS … my bad ! HA HA HA HA HA !
Around supper time we went to
the swimming pool and did cardiac rehab exercising.
This
evening I listened to CBC Radio 1, streaming it on my laptop,
listening to Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap followed by Saturday Night
Blues.
DSK
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