October 20 to 26, 2019

Sunday ; Overcast, light rain, chilly.

Late this afternoon we drove into town to set up for tomorrow’s election day. As demanded by our poll “supervisor”. So … she had us drive all the way into town … and back home again … and work for an hour setting up our polling stations … to save half an hour of time tomorrow morning ! You should be able to surmise what I thought of that brilliant idea ! ! !

Monday ; Federal Election Day

And so ends what I hope / expect will be our last day as election officials. This was the fourth election that we worked, and was, by far, the worst ! We arrived for work at our polling station at 6:30 AM, and we left after finishing at 9:30 PM. We had an inept “supervisor” … whom I disliked intensely.

We had arranged with a neighbour to come to our home around 9 AM, wake up Ozzie and take him outside, feed Emma, then take Ozzie home with her for a day of “doggie day care”. I told her we would pick Ozzie up around 8:30 PM. We didn’t pick him up until 10 PM ! When we returned home with Ozzie, he was very overtired, and acting silly, obviously elated to be back home, after suffering anxiety that he was once again being abandoned by his “mommy and daddy”. Poor Ozzie !

Tuesday ; Sunny, mild, windy.

We slept very late this morning, until noon. And then … HA HA HA … at 5 PM 

I had a brief nap. HEY … yesterday was a VERY LONG day ! In the afternoon 

I did a small amount of preventive maintenance on the camper. At suppertime we went to the swimming pool and did an exercise session.

Ozzie was very happy today that he was back home with his “family” and that he had not been abandoned. Poor Ozzie … that anxiety is quite understandable.

Wednesday ; Penticton

Sunny and cool.

We left home this morning at 10:45 AM, heading for Penticton and my doctor’s appointment at 11:45 AM. After seeing my doctor to get all my prescriptions refilled we spent the rest of the day running errands. We left Penticton around 3:30 PM and were back home around 4:30 PM.

We watched Survivor while having supper. AWWWWW … the very first Canadian ever on Survivor was eliminated tonight.

Thursday ; The day started out sunny and mild. By suppertime the sky was filled with ugly, grey storm clouds.

Late in the morning I drove into Keremeos to drop off my new prescription orders at the pharmacy. And refill our five gallon water jug. Joanne did laundry. Late in the afternoon we went to the swimming pool and did an exercise session.

Best wishes to my sister who is having knee replacement surgery tomorrow.

Friday ; The day started out sunny and mild. The afternoon was extremely windy. Power lines were being blown down throughout the Okanagan region. After the winds came ugly storm clouds and light rain.

Today I made arrangements with a neighbour for the collection of our mail during the winter. Joanne went into town to run some errands, including picking up my prescriptions at the pharmacy. In the afternoon I replaced all batteries in the camper and truck. SHEESH … what a lot of AAA and AA batteries replaced !

Saturday ; Sunny and cool.

Today was another leisurely day of getting ready to depart in less than a week.

Late in the afternoon we headed to the swimming pool to do an exercise session, but … we got sidetracked and spent the time visiting with our neighbour / friend Jeanine.

In the evening I worked on prescription accounting and records keeping.

DSK