Sunday ; Sunny and very warm, windy. Joanne cooked a “barbecued” pulled beef roast in the Sun Oven today.
This afternoon we harvested Saskatoons. We stopped before we had even picked all the ripe berries. Largest, and probably best ( plump and juicy ) harvest of Saskatoons in our fourteen years here. And there will be more to pick tomorrow ! Or the day after !
Joanne went into town ( Keremeos ) to buy some groceries and fresh produce ( and my annual six-pack of Dos Equis beer ! ) this afternoon. I napped with Emma, did my weekly investment update and analysis, and posted my blog entry. Blogger has revised their format / font / style yet again. I don’t like it !
Monday ; Sunny and warm early in the day, cloudy and raining in the evening.
We harvested Saskatoons … again … today. Great crop this year ! I think we should be able to harvest Saskatoon berries once more this season, probably on Thursday. We gave a large container of freshly picked Saskatoons to our friend / neighbour Jeanine. And I asked ( begged … on my knees … HA HA HA ) Joanne to bake me a Saskatoon pie today. Which she did ! MMMMM ! ! ! Thank you, my dear. We also picked some cherries from one of the two cherry trees in our RV park’s orchard.
I got hired today to reposition a large fifth wheel trailer in our RV park tomorrow. Yes, yes … I know … Similkameen Trailer Towing is “retired”. But … you know … a lady showed up at our door around noon, referred by an old friend / neighbour within our community. She needed her trailer moved … I’m able to do that … KA-CHING !
So … after picking Saskatoons, and before picking cherries, we installed the fifth wheel hitch into the truck. First time the hitch has been in the truck since October 2018.
Tuesday ; Mostly overcast, cool, windy, intermittent light rain.
Had a phone meeting with my doctor this morning, mostly to review the results of blood tests done recently. All is very well. HMPH ! I was actually a bit surprised at how well everything was. Shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth, I suppose. HA HA HA ! Most of the tests done showed considerable improvement over the last two years. As I’ve said before … must have been all that clean living I did back in the 70’s ! HA HA HA < SNORT > HA HA !
Right after an early lunch we drove, in the truck, over to the other side of our RV park community and … relocated a large fifth wheel trailer. Took forty-five minutes. < shrug > Easy money ! Job went very well. Joanne and I are a very good trailer towing team !
Wednesday ; Penticton
Mostly sunny and very warm.
We left home late this morning heading to Penticton for a day of errands and a doctor’s appointment for Joanne. Joanne consulted with our family doctor, and his clinic’s physiotherapist, about her chronic shoulder pain. We had a very nice picnic lunch in Skaha Lake Beach Park. I delivered one ( of three ) of our 12 volt fridge / coolers to its buyer. We bought groceries. And RV plumbing hardware !
While shopping at Superstore ( wearing our masks, I might add ) I experienced an incident that was so disturbing to me that not only did I complain to the store manager, but tonight I sent a complaint by e-mail to their head office. While purchasing freshly cut luncheon meats at the deli counter the deli clerk who served me was an elderly obese woman ( aka fat old lady ). No problem there … I’m a fat old man ! It was a hot and humid afternoon. She was breathing heavily. Inhale through the nose. Exhale heavily through the mouth. BLOWING ON THE MEAT ! BLOWING ON THE FOOD SLICER MACHINES !
After receiving my three packages of meat … all blown on by her while being sliced … I stomped over to the front of the store, and complained to the store manager, giving her my packages of luncheon meat and telling her to throw them in the garbage. And advising that she also discard all “chubs” of meat handled by that clerk today ! ! !
HEY ! SUPERSTORE ! MR. GALEN WESTON ! IS THERE SOME PART OF “COVID-19 PANDEMIC” THAT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND ? ? ? ! ! ! IS THERE SOME PART OF “MASKS FOR EMPLOYEES” THAT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND ? ? ? ! ! !
I’ve decided that we will NOT be buying deli sliced luncheon meats any more ! At Superstore or anywhere else ! Except in Mexico, a third world country, where all deli clerks, and butchers, and all other store clerks who handle fresh food are masked … ALL THE TIME ! ! ! Not just during a pandemic ! ! !
As soon as we arrived back home at 6:30 PM two of our neighbours rushed over to advise us that our OCD next door neighbour spent about three or four hours today during our absence “blow drying” the neighbourhood. < sigh >
Thursday ; Mostly cloudy, mild, intermittent light rain all day.
After lunch we picked Saskatoons again, this time across the highway from our RV park’s entrance. WOW ! < blink blink > Again … the best harvest, of the largest, plumpest, sweetest Saskatoon berries we have ever had in our fourteen years here ! And it seems probable that we will be able to harvest one more time, in three or four days, as long as the weather doesn’t suddenly get very hot, in which case the remaining berries will quickly dry and shrivel.
In the evening I worked on reconciling bank statements and updating investment files.
Friday ; Sunny and warm. Joanne cooked my favourite Sun Oven recipe today, Mexican Chicken & Rice.
This afternoon I tackled a job I have been procrastinating doing for a couple of weeks. We both have noticed occasional very faint propane odour around our kitchen range. Today we pulled the range away from the wall and into the middle of the kitchen, and I searched for a propane leak. I leak tested and disassembled propane fittings, cleaned them, and reassembled them. I was not able to definitively find a leak, but … after I was finished disassembling, cleaning, and reassembling fittings, there seemed to be no more propane odour / leaks. Wish me luck !
Saturday ; Overcast, warm, humid. Lazy morning, busy afternoon.
After lunch we harvested another huge batch of Saskatoons. Last harvest of this year. Because … 1 ; the berries are beginning to dry out, and … 2 ; there’s no more room in our freezer ! HA HA HA ! I did some spray paint touch up on the fifth wheel hitch. Using it this week scuffed up the new paint job I had done on it recently in order to “lipstick” it to be sold. I installed the recently purchased valve on the camper toilet’s water supply line. And … WOO-HOO … this new valve does NOT leak ! WOO-HOO … that completes the camper bathroom plumbing rebuild project … AGAIN ! I installed a new camper toilet seat and cover. DARN ! The colour does not match as well as I had expected. Oh, well … < shrug > … it’s a toilet seat !
The camper is now, once again, in tip-top shape, ready for the upcoming big adventure Alaska Marine Highway ferry trip up the West Coast Inside Passage from Prince Rupert, BC to Skagway, Alaska with about half a dozen stops / points of disembarkation to explore.
Oh … wait ! Right ! Not this year ! ! ! < pout >
DSK
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