Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Wednesday 08.31.2011

the last day of august. whooshing into fall.

I slept pretty good, intermittently.

Dan golfed, I did a couple loads of laundry and grocered and pharmacied.

We went on our "dinner date", and he left for the trailer shortly after.

I've had a quiet evening at home.

Tomorrow? Hmmm....

Thank you for reading. Hugs.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Tuesday 08.30.2011

A Good Workday.

On the Overflow unit, with great co-workers.

Yes, we were busy, but we worked well together, and I think all three of us enjoyed the day.

A safe drive home, thank you God.

Dan got home shortly after.

Tomorrow is household chores--laundry, groceries, etc.

Thank you for reading. Hugs.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Saturday 08.27.2011

I had a quiet morning, and in the afternoon I wanted to go into Hale.

I opened the car door, hearing a weak "ding, ding". Uh oh. I moved the electric seat--just a sick motor hum. Dead battery. I saw that the key had been left in the accessory position. Ugh.

I went in and told Frank, then went out and took the van.

When I got back, he had the trickle charger on the car. It wasn't going to start yet, so we left it on until evening, when it did start. So we took the charger off.

Tomorrow is going home day. I'd rather stay another day, but the J.O.B. is what lets me be here in the first place...

Hope the car is ok.

Thank you for reading. Hugs.

Monday 08.29.2011

I had a great day today, starting with being able to "sleep in" until 0640 instead of 0430. I had a meeting at 0900 and a co-worker wanted the first 6 hours of the day.

A good meeting; I walked over to the credit union and back afterward, then went to the unit and took over.

The discharges were just starting to leave. Within 3 hours, we had just a few patients left. So the remaining couple of hours was fairly quiet.

A safe drive home, thank you God,

Dan was home shortly, and we've had a quiet evening.

Tomorrow is another workday for me.

Thank you for reading. Hugs.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Sunday 08.28.2011 Home, Finally

Whew, what a day!

It started out a cool breezy mostly-white-fluffy-cloud day, with the sun winning out with it's warmth and brightness.

Frank went out for a row, while I finished packing up/cleaning the front bedroom, putting things away in the front room, deflating inflatables, etc. I don't think it will warm enough for swim-time the next time I'm able to be there. *sigh* He was back just as I was starting my breakfast.

We brought the rowboat and paddleboat up and turned them over.

As I ate, he finished the deflatables, putting them away, then took all the rugs outside and shook them.

I vacuumed the front; we talked about taking the speedboat out, and decided we had time to do it. The vehicles had to be moved around--the car to the back door to load, boat trailer out of the big shed, and the van to pick up the trailer and boat.

The car battery was dead again. Ugh.

Frank put the charger on it again, and we tried the engine. It wasn't going to start, so we left the charger on it while doing more of the "going home chores". A while later, we tried again, to no avail. But we decided to go get the boat out anyway, and let the car charge more.

I got the boat uncovered and fired up, instructed Frank on how to put the boat on the trailer (all these years, and he's never put the boat on the trailer) and he set out on the lake. I went to the launch with the van and trailer.

I am very pleased to say that we did an excellent job! We sure needed something to go right...

Back at the JC, we got the power washer out to get the algae stain off the bottom of the boat. That alone didn't cut the stuff, so we used the Toon Bright cleaning solution. That didn't work as well as I had remembered it did, and Frank didn't think so either.

By now, we're working in the sun, out of the wind, and it's pretty warm. The overspray from the powerwasher felt good.

We decided to leave the boat washed, but not washed well, and figure out the vehicle situation.

We charger didn't get the battery up enough this time to start the car, so we moved the boat up the driveway and dropped it, brought the van back around into the garage, and put jumper cables on. The car wouldn't start right away, which surprised both of us. Hm, maybe I'll have to take the van home...

We went back in to finish packing and cleaning.

Vacuumed, refrigerated and dry foods sorted and packed, and we're ready to load something.

I revved the engine on the van, Frank turned the key on the car. It started!! Finally!

Ok. I moved the car to the back door, we moved the boat back down the driveway and into the garage, and covered it. There, garage done.

The rest of the last set of chores done, Frank loaded the car, and we were finally on the road about 5:30 pm. We were both hungry and tired.

We stopped in Rose City, first at the gas station for a test turn-off/restart, which was successful, as well some fuel. $3.85--I didn't fill, just got a few gallons to get back to Lansing where the price would (hopefully) be lower. Next, to the Rose City Cafe.

After we ate the yummy food, and de-stressed a bit, we headed for home.

The car started again (thank you God) and we were off.

An uneventful drive home, thanks again.

Frank helped carry my things in before leaving. We had a great 5 days at the lake.

I have unpacked everything, got work stuff out for morning, washed and dried a load of laundry, and am ready for bed.

Whew!

Thank you for reading. Hugs.