Wednesday, October 5, 2016

We arrived home last night just at supper time – it was a long drive all the way up from Portland but we (meaning Pat) timed it so we missed most of the rush hour traffic. Most of the major cities had HOV lanes which we took advantage of.

I unpacked my suitcase last night but my “goodies” are still packed away. I’ll dig them out tomorrow and show them to you.

While we were away the Cran Hall board were busy and we have a new tenant coming into our rental house. There was some concern from one of the Board members that the house wasn’t nearly clean enough for the new people to move into, particularly since the rent had gone up. I suggested we do a cleaning bee and only Dee took me up on the offer but she didn’t have any time until Saturday.

I went to the house this morning and got a start on things. There is a lot of mildew around the windows and that is mainly what Dee was concerned about. I scrubbed down four of the six windows – they aren’t perfect but they are better. Apparently there is some sort of an oil we can spray on that will keep the mildew from returning too quickly.

I noticed a lot of other maintenance things that could be done easily so I’ll continue working for the next couple of days. I think I’ll go to the Economy Shop and get some new curtains for all the windows. Some of them have venetians and they are just too disgusting to even clean.

I didn’t realize there was a full basement under the house. There is a lot of junk under there that has been left from previous tenants. There is also stuff down there that I think we could sell for a few bucks. There are boxes I never even looked into so maybe there are treasures in with the junk!

Hopefully there will be more help on Saturday as a bee really isn’t a bee if you are working alone.

The concert last night was good and I really enjoyed the performers. They napped most of the afternoon (Kayla suffers from motion sickness and the ferry did her in) so I had time to hem a pair of pants that had been “on my pile” for a few weeks (okay, I’ll be truthful – it actually was a few months). We didn’t have a full house for the show but we were close. There were a lot of new faces in the crowd and they seemed to have enjoyed the evening and we hope they will come back.

After cleaning up and getting some of the furniture back in place we sat up until late. I gave up shortly after midnight and went to bed; it was almost two when Pat came to bed. I don’t know what time the performers called it a night but sometime after Pat came to bed someone ate the leftover pasta from dinner.

Everyone was up and about in plenty of time for the ferry – in fact they somehow had times mixed up and were an hour earlier than they thought.

After they left I did a few errands around town and was pretty useless for the afternoon. I decided I had just enough energy to watch a few episodes of The Bridge which is sub-titled so you can’t do anything else but sit. The timing worked well as one episode corresponded nicely to one load of laundry. It wasn’t so much that I needed to get the laundry done but more that I didn’t want to have to come home to it.

We’re off on our Portland trip tomorrow so I’ll have to find enough energy for some packing. Clothes are easy to throw in a suitcase particularly since we are driving. I’m glad I packed my crafts while I was thinking clearly.