Monday: (08/25) Another breaking day. I finished breaking out the concrete on the patio for one of the drain pipes about 20 feet long by 8 inches wide. It actually went much more quickly today, I’m not realy sure why? I also finished sawing some of teh concrete by where the bricks were. I’ll be expanding the area where the brick paving is. About two years ago when I quickly extended the drain pipe to the then downspouts for the patio cover I just quickly broke the concrete without sawing a straight edge. Now it will be more pretty. I loaded the car and we made another trip to the dump. I still have a little more concrete to break out for the expanded brick pavement but that will have to wait a few days. I cleaned up the area. It’s amazing how much dust the sawing creates.
My final task for the day was washin both cars. Again that darn dust made them look more used than usual.
Tomorrow, a change of pace. We’re headed to Reno for a break. Lou and Dawn made a nice dinner of everything that might spoil in the refrigerator, mostly vegetables. We packed for the trip. We'’re taking the car over and will be staying two nights. Again a trip without the RV. What’s wrong with us. Just practicality. It’s cheaper to stay in the motel than to pay for gas though not as comfortable in a hotel bed.
It now looks like we won’t be getting out in the RV until at least early October. i really can’t wait but there are things to be done here first.
Tuesday: (08/26) We enjoyed some of our neighbor Eric’s bannana bread for breakfast as we watched the crew start on the paving stones on house across the street and then were on our way to San Jose. Yes we know the way!
Lou went to her doll class and Dawn to her class. Me, I filled the gas tank,only $3.99 in San Jose, the fist time it’s ben less than $4 for a long time! I then passed the time looking around Staples and Costco.
We were on the way to Reno about noon. We stopped for walks several times and arrived in Boomtown about 5pm. I got gas, so nice, only $3.79! Then we looked around Cabella’s Sporting Goods, big place. I started feeling bad when we were there. We then went over to the casino and had dinner at their buffet. Everything was great. Lou and Dawn had excellent prime ribs. after dinner and a brief visit of the machines by Lou and Dawn, we headed on to the Silver Legacy where we’ll be staying. The AARP rate is quite nice there. fortunately I began to feel better. Darn that pebble.
Wednesday: (08/27) Breakfast was, of course, the buffet here at the Silver Legacy Casino. Really good. I’ve learned how to eat at buffets nd enjoy them. Use small plates. don’t overfill them, just sample, and finally don’t stack the used plates too high. Works for me.
The rest of the day was visits to the excellent thrift stores here in Reno. Dawn and Lou love them. Can’t really say the same for me but then that’s not my thing. Ifound enopugh to do.
We stopped for dinner at Louis’s Basque Food. It’s served family style at common long tables. We sat with couple and their son from Anaheim and their god parents that live here in Reno. We enjoyed the conversation and the meal.
I then retired for the evening watching a little of the Democrats convention, Excellent speeches by Bill Clinton and Joe Biden.
Thursday: (08/28) Breakfast at the Eldorado buffet. We packed and checked outand headed to Spark’S.
We looked around all the craft vendors at the Rid Cook-off, visited the Nugget and Silver Club casinos. We generally loose or don’t win much. I did win a couple of dollars at keno which offset all my loses on this trip. Lou and Dawn generlly break even as well. We had $5 to bet for a neighbor which we did as our last bets. Dawn won $200 for the neighbor. How ome they have the luck?
We looked around a very nice army surplus store on 4th street and a final book store on Keystone Ave and then hit the road about 2:30. We stopped in Sacramento for some things from a Mexican bakery. Then stopped by Dawn’s place in San Jose to pick up some of the stuff we left there on our way out of town and arrived home about 7:30.
Nice trip! Dinner was from Pizz’a Chicago.
Tuesday: (08/19) I had a doctors appointment in Santa Clara this morning. It’s been two weeks since the last check on the pesky pebble’s (my kidney stone’s) travels. It hasn’t moved in these past two weeks. It gets four more weeks to move out or the surgeons will evict it. That doesn’t sound like fun […]
Monday: (08/18) Back to the weekly schedule, though I’m not sure how it really differs from the weekend schedule?
Dawn was off to school early. ParaTransit was late and she ended up getting to class late.
Lou and I did a shopping run, both hardware and food. First stop was the Post Office to get some 2 […]
Friday: (08/15) An interesting day. I picked up Dawn and took her to a class. Dawn is taking a class on how to get a job. I think that should actually be part of the curriculum in school, like balancing your check book should be, BUT ISN’T.
I needed to fix her Internet access at her […]
Monday: (08/11) That’s what the house siding installers are doing.
While watching the work in back by the fountain a humming bird paid a visit, and this time, I had my camera. The shot on the right was spoiled by the triceratops that lives there.
Today, they completed the North side of the house, most of […]
Monday: (08/04) Lou and Dawn went down to San Jose for appointments and classes. They’ll be back Wednesday.
I was busy cleaning up my study to provide access to the windows for replacement. The room was piled floor to ceiling with stuff but the closet was empty. I went to Home Depot and got a shelf […]
Saturday: (08/02) Dawn has several garden pots on a fence in the back yard growing herbs and such. She has cages over some of them to keep the squirrels out. This morning, Lou found this bird in one of the cages. It was happy to be released!
Sunday: (08/03) We visited Rancho San Antonio Park. […]
Sunday: (07/27) Rebuilt one of the cabinets in the laundry room to fit the new arrangement. This poor cabinet was reduced by 6 inches in width when installed previously and now lost another 6 inches with the new arrangement. Poor thing. I also installed the sink.
Monday: (07/28) We, mostly, finished moving back into the laundry […]
Friday: (07/18) Lou and I worked a little on our project. She as the clear thinking one using the tools me as some muscle when needed. We’re a pretty good team. We add up to a whole wit (1/2 +1/2).
For dinner, we went to Chevy’s Fresh Mex restaurant. We had some coupons for a 3.99 […]
Last night was quite fun. About 3pm, I returned home from another material finding run. I was feeling a little pain in the lower back. By 4pm, when Lou and Dawn arrived home, I was in pretty bad shape with excruciating back pain. I had awaken the night before with the same pain […]
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