We
got a reasonably early start for a shopping trip to Kamloops. It was cloudy & drizzly here and rained
more as we drove. We stopped for
breakfast in Cache Creek. Our first stop
in Kamloops was Costco which took a while as Marg had to order new eye
glasses. I can’t believe that it takes 2
weeks to get them. We also got a laundry
tub as that is one of our projects this year.
Then we went to a computer shop, Staples, Super Store, Summit Tools,
Canadian Tire and Princess Auto. We had
a very late lunch before going to the casino where we stayed for about 3
hours. I am getting quite discouraged at
my lack of luck but at least Terry kept us afloat again. Marg would have done better if we had been
ready to leave earlier!
We
stopped at Dairy Queen in Cache Creek and when we got home at 10 we left
everything in the truck to be unloaded tomorrow.
May 23rd – Thurs
Cold
and overcast this morning but no rain.
Chores are easy right now – feed Buck & Snow a “flake” of hay, feed
the barn cats (about 11 right now!), feed the chickens & collect eggs and
feed OLD cat Uncle. If spoiled barn cat
Shorty is around, he gets some food too.
Every 2 or 3 days the sheep get a salt & mineral mix.
Marg
& I entered more expenses into a spreadsheet while Terry unhooked the
connections from the old laundry tub. We
had a breakfast burrito about 10 and while Marg & I were cleaning up,
deciding what to have for dinner and then inviting Francis & Nicole over
for dinner, Terry was wrangling the new laundry tub off the truck and into the
basement. I helped move it into the
laundry room so Terry could see what fittings we were going to need which sent
Marg to the shop to dig through a large box of miscellaneous plumbing bits. Somewhere along the line Marg & I got a
rhubarb cake in the oven.
By
the time I joined them in the shop, they were studying the wheels on an
upside-down, heavy metal saw. The metal
where the wheels were fastened had bent so the wheels didn’t turn anymore. Marg had to move the saw to get the plumbing
box which made her decide to fix it even though we were supposed to be fixing a
couple of fences. So she & I fixed
the wheels while Terry took a broken handle out of an axe head and then put up
a hose reel for an air compressor.
Now
we could finally get organized and head out to fix the fences. But first we had to cut up the tree by the
chicken house that Terry limbed on Tuesday.
We had to limb & cut up 3 trees that fell over 2 sections of
fence. The nice thing is that the wires
generally don’t break so once the trees are off and the small posts set
upright, the fence might just need a little tightening. Of course we also had to push over and cut up
another dead tree that could fall over the fence if left alone. We brought back a wagon & tractor bucket
of wood rounds that we stacked between 2 trees near the house. Then Terry picked up the rounds from the tree
in the yard & stacked them while Marg & I were splitting and stacking
some of the wood that we had separated out as it was very dry and ready to
burn. Marg made a tour of the fence line
on the ATV and I started dinner.
Francis
& Nicole came over just as Marg got back about 5:30. We had a lovely evening and a good dinner if
I do say so myself.
May 24th – Fri
Rainy
this morning. After breakfast, we ran
errands. We took a large birdhouse (made
by Marg out of old barn wood and stained glass windows made by her neighbor) to
the mall where people were going to sell raffle tickets today. We dropped off normal recyclables and also a
huge old TV that Marg recently replaced with a nice big flat screen. We bought
some plumbing parts and picked up color swatches to decide on paint for the
laundry room. Also had to stop at the
library, the post office and to make an appointment for a haircut for Marg next
week. We stopped in town so Marg could
get a watch band and have it sized.
Terry & I took a quick tour through the Farmer’s Market but we were
late and some vendors were already shutting down.
I
made sandwiches for a late lunch and it seemed like no time before Marg had to
leave to start here ticket selling shift at 3.
It quit raining and the grass was fairly dry so Terry got the riding
mower and mowed the area where the dead tree had prevented Marg from mowing
earlier. I raked the area where the
stump was pushed out and picked up a couple of buckets of sticks which we then
took on the ATV to the burn pile. This
finished our work for the afternoon! I
decided on chili for dinner and got it started.
We spent some time on the diabolical jigsaw puzzle and watched TV. Dinner, TV, computer, reading and dozing
(guess who!) filled the evening.
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