June 2nd to 4th - 100 Mile House

June 2nd – Thurs
Marg took the motor home in for an oil change, Terry followed in the truck so they could leave it there rather than waiting and they got the page wire for the new fence on the way home. I spent the time they were gone on the computer.
After lunch, Marg took her truck to drop Dad off for a blood test and take Terry to drive the motor home back. I stayed home and did some cleaning. Dad had to wait over an hour for his blood test so I had dinner prep done by the time they got back.

June 3rd – Fri
Marg, Terry & I went to the Farmer’s Market this morning, stopped at the grocery store & liquor store and at the lumber yard for wood to build an outhouse for Quille’s friend Rick . We had told Dad that we would be back in time for lunch but he didn’t trust us and was eating a sandwich when we returned at 12:15. I made lunch while Terry & Marg unloaded the wood.
A section of fence between Marg and her neighbors Ralph & Gina had taken a beating by their horses and Buck in the winter so that was our project this afternoon while Marg worked in the garden and Dad worked in the shop. We removed existing insulators and replaced them with insulators that will carry electric tape which can be seen – and respected – by horses & deer. We also left the electric wire as Marg discovered that the tape cannot carry the necessary load. We were severely attacked by mosquitoes but got the job done.
Marg went to Quille & Gail’s for dinner and we put hamburgers on the BBQ.

June 4th – Sat
Breakfast was a little later than usual this morning. Marg had to get a haircut so Terry & I loaded up the ATV, replaced 3 brace boards at the power line gate, secured the wire on 3 posts and wove lath strips into sections of page wire to tighten and straighten it. Then we went out and hooked up the power on the fence we worked on yesterday. There was only one short which didn’t take us too long to find. We were hanging up Marg’s collection of old tools on the porch (taken down a couple of years ago in anticipation of new paint which was just finished yesterday) when Marg got home and helped. This made lunch quite late as it was a bigger job than we thought trying to get everything back where it had been previously.
We worked in the garden and watered everything trying to empty a water barrel so Terry & Marg can connect 2 barrels to collect rain water and use it in the garden. Then Marg had the bright idea of going golfing to see if we could beat Terry. Didn’t take us long to change clothes and load up the clubs. The weather was perfect and Terry & I were smart enough to put on insect repellant so the mosquitoes only ate Marg. We all played from the blue (men’s) tees and Terry & I tied and beat Marg by only 2 strokes. It took us just over 1 ½ hours for the 9 holes so we were back in plenty of time to boil baby back ribs for dinner.
Francis & Nichole stopped by just as we were finishing the dishes. They brought some bedding plants for Marg and are going to take an excess rooster to become their dinner some day.