ROAD TRIP

July 22/10

  

It seems like a weekly blog posting is appropriate for now so I’ll try to stick to that schedule.  What!  A schedule when you’re retired?  Yes, it can happen although we like to call it a “routine.”  We start and end the days at about the same time and pack a whole lot of different activities into the day.  We are almost finished with settling in and the highlights of this past week include:

Delivery of our barstools so the kitchen counter doesn’t look abandoned

Cleaning up the area for parking the trailer

Putting up the rest of the artwork and final touches on placement of furniture and display items

Setting up the Home Theatre

Finding out that you shouldn’t pack a snow globe in your unheated storage container.  We forgot that it was there in a Rubbermaid container with Christmas decorations.  We just happened to look in the container today while searching for something else.  The globe didn’t break, but all the liquid leaked out and ruined one of the needlepoint wall hangings that I made.

This is what it looked like before

And this is what it looks like now

Our trailer needed warranty work as we mentioned in one of the last “L and S at No Fixed Address” blog posts and we took it to Kelowna this past Monday.  It was nostalgic to hook it up and head down the road again.  We took turns driving and dropped it off in West Kelowna just before noon and left them with a “fix it” list.  We went out for lunch and shopping afterwards and ended up spending the whole afternoon in town with our last stop at Costco.  The drive home on highway 33 was fine although we got behind a tanker truck at Big White and didn’t get past him until Beaverdell.  You never know what the traffic will be like and how many chip trucks might be in front of you.  It was strange to arrive at “home” after the road trip—we had never turned off the highway from the west to our place before.

Anyway, the warranty work is done and we are heading back to Kelowna tomorrow to pick it up.  That will be enough travelling for this week—we have adjusted to being homebodies for now.