April showers bring may flowers, but Corrie’s gardening skills brings June floral extravaganza!
Tuesday, 03JUN, more great weather, Dan heads back to Cardio
Rehab at Kirkland Evergreen. Last rehab
session way back in December right before unplanned January hospital stay. Dan now has two months to use up remaining coverage
paid for by his medicare. Twice a week sessions
till insurance stops paying.
Thursday great weather; Corrie has girl’s day out with Jan
Formisano; Dan has cardio rehab session.
Friday and Saturday great weather; lots of outdoor chores and mowing. Record heat in Seattle means not much energy/enthusiasm
for outside activity after few hours. Dan
starts to repair RV/tow car towing connection cable that has been acting-up.
Sunday record 90 degrees in Seattle area; Dan finishes tow cable
repair. Some outdoor chores until heat
too much to take. Monday 10 June, more
heat and outdoor chores; Corri does some painting on small garden shed building
Wednesday AM Dan off for routine servicing on Fiesta toad; then
home for yard work and mowing. One of
the two drive belts on ride-em mower breaks so tomorrow probably spent trying
to fix it☹
Broken drive belt is from motor to cutting blades.
Thursday AM, 12JUN, Dan has cardio rehab; then Dan stops by one
of few remaining independent mower and chain saw repair businesses to get new
drive belt. None available, but luckily
Dan saved well worn, used belt from previous repair. Two belts are on mower, each different
circumference. One hour wasted before he
realizes he has been trying to force the small one onto where the big one goes☹
Saturday AM off to pitre’s for fathers day weekend. Spend most of day helping with landscaping and chores. Then Denny’s for fathers’ day dinner; in place of typical Sunday AM fathers day breakfast with hundreds of other familys trying to do the same thing. Then back to house for dessert and veg out. Sunday morning (fathers day) catch a ferry and back home to our house.
Monday, 16JUN, good weather for outdoor work; Tuesday Cardio Rehab; asthma DR appointment and mowing. Grandson Jaxson recognized at school for JV Football participation.
Friday AM (first
day of summer) Dan is off to ferry to daughter Rebecca’s to kinda
house/grandson sit while Rebecca runs errands/etc. In addition to helping her, he will take
grandkids (Jaxson & Mason) to a Club World Cup soccer game in Seattle
Saturday.
This is 25th year for this soccer
competition. According to WIKI ---
The new format, which came into effect with the 2025 edition, features
32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation; 12 teams
from Europe, 6 from South America,
4 from Africa, 4 from Asia,
4 from North,
Central America and Caribbean, 1
from Oceania, and 1 team from the host nation. The teams
are drawn into eight groups of four, with each team playing three group stage
matches in a round-robin format.
The top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stage, starting with
the round of 16 and culminating with the final.
So tomorrow
Dan and boys will take Bremerton ferry into Seatle and walk to Lumen Field
(home of the Seahawks and Sounders) and will see Inter Milan (Italy) vs Urawa
Red Diamonds (Japan). Seattle was
awarded one of the opening rounds of this competition as a test run for next
year’s World Cup, portions of which will be held in Seattle at Lumen field.
After arriving at Rebecca and Raymond’s, Dan takes up “sitting” duties while Rebecca runs errands. Early evening Rebecca and Dan head to a scrimmage soccer game for Mason’s select soccer team.
Saturday, 21Jun, after breakfast Rebecca takes Dan, Jaxson & Mason to Bremerton ferry to walk-on to ferry boat and ride to downtown Seattle. Then it is short walk to Lumen Field for the soccer game. Dan gets crash course on advantages and disadvantages of e-tickets. Disadvantage is it is assumed no one needs paper ticket because you will only use their phone app? Dan refuses to load any apps on his phone, and it takes fifteen minutes to find someone who knows how to handle this.
As we neared the stadium we immediately hear the noise/roar of Urawa supporters. Urawa supporters (most have traveled from Japan) have packed one end zone end. And were on their feet and continuously making noise from well before the game until it ended. Rest of the seating was pretty much empty😊
Good game,
Milan clearly better than Urawa (15 shots on goal for Milan, compared to 2 for
Urawa). The Japanese club led 1 to nil
for almost entire game but gave up late goal during game, and lost in extra
time.
Walk back
to ferry terminal and catch one of the passenger only (ie no cars), fast
ferry’s saving 30 minutes home. Rebecca
picks the guys up and back to the house.
Dan packs car and heads to Kingston ferry terminal and home.
Monday great day; Dan wakes up to find that his charging port on his cell phone is dead. Verizon won’t fix because no insurance on the phone. So off to U Break it, We fix it! They found piece of wood in the port; phone fixed and no charge. Then home to mow and mow. After dinner we pick berries: wild salmonberries – wild blackberries – and garden raspberries.
Rest of
June, mostly medical appointments for both of us; outdoor yard work; mowing; painting
of green house; and miscellaneous errands.
Raymond and boys went fishing and Raymond reported -- The trout didn’t want to bite, so we broke some sticks and went perch jerking.
