First week of May is off and on rain. We spend breaks between rain falls pressure washing deck and concrete patio. Lesson learned, don’t wait ten years between cleanings😊
Tuesday, 09MAY, Dan spends most of day putting up the pool; usually don’t do this in May, but we may have 80s and 90s forecast this weekend into next week. Wednesday gorgeous day all day sun and high 70s; Dan finishes assembling the pool and begins filling it. Also rolls out solar array for heating pool water; hopefully tomorrow get pool pump hooked up. Corrie applies water sealer to recently cleaned small deck; Dan mows.
Thursday Dan at food
bank most of day; then heads home to finish hooking up pool to solar array for
heating pool water and then mows; during day Corrie applies water sealer to one
third of big front deck and gardens.
Friday AM, 12MAY, Dan
heads to Sultan Food Bank; great sunshine all day; solar array raises pool temp
from 60 degrees to 72 degrees; Dan starts packing truck for tomorrow’s trip to
Pitre’s in Silverdale.
Early AM Saturday, 13MAY, we head to Edmonds ferry to Pitre’s in Silverdale for Mothers’ Day. The Edmonds/Kingston ferry route is the most popular in WA (ie most vehicles/passengers) and has the largest two state ferries to handle the traffic. Unfortunately one of the jumbo ferries had an engineering casualty, so there is one jumbo ferry & one medium size ferry on the run and we missed two ferry runs before we got on. But as always spectacular views on a clear day! BBQ hamburgers for dinner and rhubarb/strawberry pie with Rebecca, Raymond & grandboys; one game of cribbage before bed.
Sunday Mother’s Day; great sunshine but means near record high temps. Corrie helps Rebecca planting and gardening all around exterior of house and two raised vegetable beds. Raymond slow smokes/BBQs a chuck roast; great dinner; and then nothing more done.
Monday AM pack truck
and off to the Kingston ferry; for once no wait to load ferry😊 Back to home mid-day
and temps already in low 80s (day sets
record for earliest 90 degree day in Seattle by almost one weeks). Corrie
immediately starts hydrating garden; Dan starts pool pump pumping thru solar
array, heats water up to 80 degrees, so Dan takes test swim. Thank goodness we insisted on house being
built with heat pump/AC.
Wednesday. 17MAY, mostly sunny day; Dan finishes sealing last of the big deck & misc small areas not already done. Thursday mostly sunny; Dan at food bank most of day; Corrie spends most of day preparing for tomorrow’s visitors (Pitre’s, and their friends Johnny & Sebastian.
Friday (son Joe’s B-day); finish getting house/property ready for visitors. Sround lunch time the pitre’s show-up, followed by their friends Johnny and Sebastian. Their plan is after visiting with us, having lunch, is heading to Leavenworth for the weekend and Johnny’s B-day. Of course the grandboys wanted in the pool asap; then BBQ burgers & salad for lunch, before all the guests hit the road to Leavenworth in two cars. We will dogsit Rebecca & Raymond’s dog Roux.
Saturday; outdoor
choirs while we still have sunshine; looks like dishwasher is kaput☹ Sunday, 21MAY, temps
15 degrees cooler, cloudy, and light rain off/on. Rebecca & Raymond stop by to pick up
their dog Roux. During the day off to
Lowes to purchase new dishwasher☹ Unfortunately no one able to install it until 01JUN. Monday AM Corrie for girls’ day out with Jan
Formisano.
Finished the month of May mostly doing choirs - pressure washing south side of shop/RV garage and our cargo trailer; Corrie gardening, gardening and gardening; mowing and more mowing; volunteering at food bank; spraying weeds taking over the driveways and edges of the lawn; etc.
For Memorial Day Corrie takes some of her home grown poppies to give-back to the military personnel passing out paper poppies by the shopping areas. Last APR was fourth coldest on record; but MAY will be second warmest on record, even though most of month was cloudy and overcast?
