August 9 to 15, 2020

Sunday ; Sunny and very warm. Joanne baked Oriental Chicken (legs) in the Sun Oven today. They were very good !

Had another lazy day today. Did a very small amount of work on the gazebo. Did an early walk, and a late afternoon pool exercise session. Posted my weekly blog entry.

Monday ; Sunny and hot. Joanne baked Chicken Legs Piquant in the Sun Oven today.

Joanne went into town today to buy some advertised specials at the grocery store. I washed the truck. Which wouldn’t have been necessary if our OCD neighbour wasn’t obsessed with “blow drying” the neighbourhood with her leaf blower ! ! !

Tuesday ; Sunny and hot during the day, cool and windy in the evening.

Around 1 PM we started our “early” exercise walk. We walked just a few feet from home when an extremely fat black cat jumped out from underneath our next door neighbour’s truck, and made it abundantly clear that it wanted to be “rescued”. It vocalized its desire to be “saved” then flopped over onto its back and did a little kitty cat happy dance in the dirt of our back alleyway. HA HA HA HA HA … hello, little fat cat ! We turned back towards home and called the cat to come with us, which it happily did.

While I sat with the cat in our gazebo, providing it with a fresh bowl of cold water, Joanne went to do some cat identification detective work, starting with talking to the small group of neighbours chatting on our front street. When I picked up the cat to go inside our gazebo, I thought … WOW … this cat must weigh between 25 to 30 pounds !

After a bit of Joanne’s detective work it seemed likely that this cat belonged to lot 113. We don’t know the people that live at lot 113, but … we know the people that are house and cat sitting at lot 113 ! Joanne went over to see Rick and Carolyn, to ask if this cat belonged at lot 113, where they are house and cat sitting. When she described the cat, Rick said … HMMM … sounds like Ditch.

HA HA HA ! Hello, Ditch ! Rick returned to our home with Joanne and confirmed that this was indeed Ditch, one of the two cats that live at lot 113. Ditch is pissed off that his owners have “abandoned” him, and these … < snort > … people with a dog keep coming over to look after him and the other cat. Ditch decided … “Fuck this, I’m leaving home” ! The home at lot 113 has a cat door that allows Ditch and the other cat to go outside and sit on their deck by themselves.

Ditch took it one step further than just going outside onto the deck, and left home. HA HA HA … travelling downhill only ! He made it as far as our next door neighbour’s before he realized that it was way too sunny and hot for a really fat black cat to be outside, so he hid under the neighbour’s truck until we came along. He’s WAY too fat to make it home … uphill all the way … on his own. HA HA HA HA HA !

Rick and Joanne returned Ditch to his home, then Joanne and I continued our walk.

Bye, Ditch ! When Joanne took Ditch home, she was of the opinion that Ditch weighs more than Ozzie when we got him. Ozzie was 33 pounds ! ! !

This afternoon I harvested our yellow beans while Joanne harvested more lettuce. Then we washed the minivan.

Wednesday ; Sunny, very warm, windy during the day, becoming quite chilly in the evening.

I went fishing this afternoon. Fished for an hour. Caught one Rainbow Trout that was too small to keep. BAH ! HUMBUG !

One of our neighbours in this community had a spruce tree removed from their yard today. For no particular reason that was obvious. It was probably a hundred feet tall, probably just as many years old ! The only apparent reason that we could ascertain for them wanting the tree removed was … they’re from Alberta ! ! ! It seems as if most Albertans who move here to BC are determined to eliminate as many trees as they can ! < fume > AND … < sputter > … they’re selling their place. And have already moved away. < fume >

All day long residents walking by were stopping, staring, then scowling. Didn’t seem to be much support for the removal of the tree.

Thursday ; Sunny and very warm during the day, chilly in the evening.

Did some minor household repairs. Did some online shopping. Made a beef chow mein dinner, taking my recently developed Udon noodle creation and modifying it using chow mein noodles. Turned out quite well !

Friday ; Sunny and very warm.

After lunch Joanne did laundry. After she finished we visited our neighbour / friend Jeanine. In the evening we watched the first of three nights of this year’s online version of the Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival.

Saturday ; Sunny and very hot. Joanne cooked Gumbo in the Sun Oven today. It was very good !

My sister phoned this afternoon with bad news about her health. HMPH !

We puttered around today with routine household chores. In the evening we watched day two of the Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival.

DSK