Joe and Kathy's Blog

…Or You Could Get a Kindle

KLE — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:15:54 +0000

from: Lovely Listing – Odd Finds in Real Estate Listings

This guy, it seems, is a man who really likes to read. And who doesn’t have a library card. Good reason to get a Kindle.

Love the spiral staircase though.

The storm that wasn’t

KLE — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:10:48 +0000

1/11/11

The forecast started out – 14 inches of snow in Portland, then 1/4 inch of freezing rain on top of that, all to hit PM 1/11/2011.

Gradually they changed the forecast, less snow, shorter freezing rain.

What we got: a tiny dusting of snow, maybe a little freezing rain, and temperatures 41 degrees overnight.

The winter snow storm that wasn’t…

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KLE — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:57:10 +0000

Sunday, Nov 14 2010

KLE — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:29:01 +0000

We washed the car and the Mazda today – boy were they dirty.

Blew leaves and picked them up in the back yard again – maybe one more time this year. Still have lots of puddles in the back yard.

Put out some peanuts in the shell – in the squirrel feeder and bird feeder. It is interesting to watch the squirrels attempt to bury them all over the yard. I wonder how they remember where they put them?? Got some big birds coming after the peanuts too.

Joe blew out the gutters and the front yard yesterday.

Tuesday, Oct 26 2010

KLE — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:14:32 +0000

Day 26 of 30-day continuity of service. Joe’s shoulder is starting to bother him more. We are going back to Dr. Austin Thursday morning, but I don’t know that there is anything he can do for it at this point, since Joe just had an injection a month ago.

I worked on tidying up the kitchen counters – decluttering them. The spices are now in the drawer to the right of the stove.

We made Chili – yummy, and we have 4 bags frozen for future meals.

smoothie of the day = orange, banana, strawberry, yogurt with whey. Pretty good, fluffy.

Monday, Oct 25 2010

KLE — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:23:45 +0000

RAIN!

1/3 inch Saturday, over 1 inch Sunday, and already over 1/4 inch today. Looks like more is coming in.

So far, the creek hasn’t come over the banks, and we have just one puddle in the low spot in the back. All our work this summer is paying off.

We do need to get the gutter on the shop lean-to pretty quick though.

The best smoothies so far: strawberries, cup of milk, cup of vanilla/unflavored yogurt (half and half) and almost 1/2 scoop of whey. Yummy!

Friday, Oct 22 2010

KLE — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:10:35 +0000

Went to Traeger in Wilsonville first thing this morning to get a replacement Traeger 070 grill. The new one has powder coating all over.
New serial number is 34571
“purchase date” is 10/22/2010

Working on backing up the movies.

Day 22 of 30-day continuity of service – one week from today the month is essentially over( really the 30th, but Joe doesn’t work on Saturday)

Sunday, Oct 17 2010

KLE — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:55:59 +0000

Sunday, so quiet day. Joe sharpened the blades on the Toro and we mowed the front yard -should be the last timefor this year.

We got the oil changed in the Mazda today.

Tried to watch Brokeback Mountain – what s S-L-O-W movie , so we gave up. Watched The Cheyene Social Club instead – pretty good. It had SJimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda.

No smoothjie – we had whey powder in milk. Had a Pizza from Pap Murphy’s for lunch (coupon!). I traded a cheezy bread and cookie dough coupon for a cinnamon wheel – they aren’t too bad

Kathy is banned from using USB hubs – they were taking too much power and the DVD drive was crapping out because of it. bummer.

Wednesday, Oct 13 2010

KLE — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:36:47 +0000

Wednesday. Kathy went to TEI last night 2 miles on the bike and other exercises

Wednesday, went agin to TEI – 3 miles on the bike and 1 mile on the treadmill plus arm pulls and leg pushes. Smoothie last night was whey, strawberry, mango, pineapple, yogurt. Need to work on this one – not as good as the others.

Tuesday, Oct 12 2010

KLE — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:08:55 +0000

Tuesday – so trip ti BiMart – we did not win anything.

Went to the library yesterday, so ripped some movies and took them back to be checked back in.

To Fred Meyer to get some Michael Morgan t-shirts on sale – can’t decide yet if we want XL or XXL. Will decide then return the others.