New TV installed on the new steel drawer frame.
The new bathroom mirror on the door.
Finished Front RV TV installation. The LCD Tv replaced a huge vacuum tube TV and provided extra storage behind the new TV.
Tuesday: (03/13) Rainy. I cleaned up all my stuff in the RV and did some vacuuming and cleaning. Tinkered with the computer collecting tax info. Otherwise relaxed inside, out of the rain. Granola for breakfast. Grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch. Lou’s spaghetti for dinner.
Wednesday: (03/14) Rainy. I did our grocery shopping in the morning. I worked on our tax return in the afternoon. The tax app crashed so tomorrow I get to start again. Granola for breakfast. Grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch. Artichoke chicken over rice for dinner. Pupin pie for Pie Day dessert.
Thursday: (03/15) Rainy. I worked on income tax preparation all day. I finished the first draft of our return. Granola and diced apple for breakfast. Pumpkin pie for lunch. Dinner at Chili’s Restaurant. After dinner, Lou felt ill so we went to Santa Clara.
Friday: (03/16) Rainy. Up early. Dawn and I shared a breakfast burrito from A Good Morning on our way to see Lou. We spent today with Lou in Santa Clara. Dawn and I had lunch from the Farmers Market, some really nice egg rolls. We all returned home about 1500. Leftover Chili’s items for dinner.
Saturday: (03/17) A rainy day. I spent the day relaxing and trying to catch up on sleep. PBJ toast for breakfast. Lou made corned beef and cabbage for dinner.
Sunday: (03/18) Lou made scrambled eggs with pico de gallo for breakfast. We drove over to Stockton to a shoe store that handles the shoes Dawn needs. Our local store closed. We stopped for lunch at Xochimilco Cafe in downtown Stockton then visited the shoe store. We also stopped at a few thrift stores before heading back toward home. We made this trip today because it was the first day of little rain for a while. Traffic was heavy. We made it home a little after 1900. I prepared grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner.
Monday: (03/19) Up early to deliver the Jeep to Yeaman Auto Body to get the damage repaired. It should be back home this Friday. Ernie brought me back home. After PBJ toast for breakfast, I drove Lou to Kaiser for an appointment. We did some grocery shopping on the way home. Lou made beef stroganoff potatoes for lunch. I had a dentist appointment at 1500. On the way home our tenant in San Jose called to say the toilet was stopped up. The plunger didn’t free it up. I agreed to come down but had to return home in Palo Alto first to pick up my tools. It was rush hour it took me a while to get there and I stopped for some egg rolls for dinner on the way. I got here about 1745. I tried out Dawn’s toilet a few times and it wasn’t stopped up. I then tried their toilet and it was clogged. I tried my super duper plunger and it wouldn’t clear it. I checked in the basement and there was only four ft of drain line that could be clogged but no cleanout. I removed the toilet and ran a snake through the drain pipe, no plug. So, evidently the toilet itself. I couldn’t get the snake through it either direction. I decided to just replace it. Thewas toilet has been a pain for a while with numerous problems and never flushed correctly anyway. I dashed off to Orchard Hardware to get a new toilet and returned. Not really a one person job to lift it but I managed. It took a while to get it in and when don it flushed extremely well. Better than ever. I did have a little leak at the bottom of the tank but need to remove it to fix it so not tonight. I’ll return with a wet vacuum tomorrow. They finally had a working toilet at 2200. I cleaned up my stuff and loaded the old toilet in the car. I also brought home a big four wheeled cart. And my final task was to remove all my tools from the apartment. I got home about 2300 and unloaded to the car. Really nice to get a good shower and get to bed.
Tuesday: (03/20) We all went down to San Jose early. I stopped on the way and bought some caulk for the toilet project. Breakfast burritos from La Victoria Taqueria. I love their orange sauce. Dawn had an appointment in the morning. Dawn and Lou were busy cleaning the apartment. Lou and I were off to visit Kaiser again. Later I got access to the new toilet and tightened the tank to eliminate a leak. The problem was that I followed the directions. Usually a bad idea. I had to lift it off the base, tighten a couple of nuts and reattach it. Easy to do because I had my wet vacuum this time. We had lunch at The Old Spaghetti Factory in San Jose. It didn’t agree with Lou so we dashed home. About 1630 I returned to San Jose on the bus and put some things inside that were moved outside the other day. The ride was nicer that anther commute in rush hour traffic, in the rain. I walked about five miles toward home through downtown San Jose and out the Alameda before catching the return bus. My dinner was a peanut butter cookie from a Mexican bakery downtown and some yogurt and a leftover grilled cheese sandwich. Home about 2030.
Wednesday: (03/21) Occasional rain in the morning drying out in the afternoon. Granola and diced apple for breakfast. I was off to an early dentist appointment in Cupertino. I got a new crown started. I picked up some dim sum for lunch on the way home. So nice that the newer pain killers they use don’t leave your entire face numb for hours after the appointment. In the afternoon I took Lou to an appointment. Back at home I cleaned my tools and disposed of the old toilet by breaking it up and putting into the garbage. I also disassembled the solid oak table I bought a few days ago. Should make some nice things when reused. Leftover stroganoff over bread for dinner. I also baked some cauliflower pieces for dinner.
Thursday: (03/22) I made a shopping run in the afternoon. I bought another toilet to replace one of ours here. I also did some grocery shopping. Lou made some peanut butter cookies. I made corned beef hash for breakfast. Yogurt for lunch. Pot roast beef for dinner.
Friday: (03/23) Dawn and I took Lou to an appointment in Santa Clara in the morning. Dawn visited a bookstore while I did a little car shopping. Lou wants to get rid of our little Hyundai Accent and get something bigger with a better ride. She’d like a Subaru Forester. I’d like a Subaru Outback. Neither cheap. I did find something I like at Enterprise Car Sales, a 2017 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk. I’ll have to get Lou to take a ride to see if it provides a smooth enough ride. At home in the afternoon, I replaced the toilet in our main bathroom. The primary reason is just to have an easier to operate flush handle and low water usage that still flushes completely on one flush. It’s the same model I installed in San Jose. And related to that, in the evening when we went to meet Lou, the tenant called to say there was a leak in the new toilet? Darn. Peach pie for breakfast. Egg rolls for early lunch from the Farmers Market. Early dinner from China Bistro in Mountain View.
Saturday: (03/24) We headed down to San Jose and parked at the house. I went inside to look at the leaking toilet. It was leaking. While there, the tenant pointed out a leak in the shower door and some missing grout around the kitchen sink. Dawn and I joined the March For Life rally in San Jose. A nice big crowd led by the students. The best sign seemed to be “When Leaders Act Like Children, Children Act Like Leaders”. And so it was! We had a large crowd even though we had rain, including a period of deluge. After the march, Dawn and I visited La Victoria Taqueria for a burrito lunch. Then we stopped at a Mexican bakery nearby for some dessert cookies. Back at the house I went to Orchard Hardware and bought the part I needed to fix the toilet. Since I couldn’t see anything wrong with the toilet as to why the tank leaked I bought a new bolt kit that included thicker tighter washers. I installed them and made them nice and tight. No leaks, and now hoping they stay that way. I then cleaned up some of the caulk around the shower door and replaced it. No action on the sink because I need to find tan caulk and it seems to be rare. After a little clean up we went to meet Lou and visit a while before heading home. Leftover corned beef hash for breakfast. A shared burrito to lunch. Roast beef sandwiches for dinner.
Sunday: (03/25) I made breakfast sandwiches with the leftover corned beef, eggs, and cheese. Nice! Yesterday I received some new safety cables for the RV toad connection. One of the EZconnect ends had been ground off when it dragged on the pavement. Dawn and I met Lou in Santa Clara around noon and had lunch with her. I spent some time in the afternoon looking for a Hyundai replacement. I found out the Hyundai isn’t worth much and Subaru are expensive even when well used. Further learned that they can’t be flat towed with either manual or automatic transmissions. So, looks like we may be looking at another Jeep. hopefully slightly used and cheap. Luckily, both Enterprise and Avis sell 2016-2017 used Jeep Renegade Trailhawks and a good price. They can be towed like our Cherokee. We need to confirm they provide a smooth ride for Lou. Leftovers for dinner. In the evening we met with Lou again
Monday: (03/26) I cleaned out the cooler in preparation for the coming hot weather. Dawn and I stopped for breakfast at the Country Inn in Cupertino then went to meet Lou. I called about noon to see if the Jeep was ready, and it was so I went off to pick it up. Ernie dropped me off at the shop. I picked up the Jeep then returned to Dawn and Lou in Santa Clara. We all came home and enjoyed a nap. Leftovers for dinner. Nice to have the Jeep back.
Tuesday: (03/27) Lou and I went grocery shopping first thing in the morning. Back at home, I made some chorizo scrambled eggs for breakfast. A little plant moving later. I returned the hanging plants to the arbor from the greenhouse. Steamed artichokes for lunch. Lou and Dawn were off to a lecture at the Jewish Community Center in the evening. I had dinner at China Bistro.
Wednesday: (03/28) Granola and banana for breakfast. I attended a webinar at 1000. A little before noon I headed off on a walk heading North on El Camino Real. I walked up to Menlo Park. I had some fish tacos at Rubio’s Mexican restaurant. I then caught a bus up to Redwood City where I walked out toward the bay then back to El Camino Real. I caught a bus back California Avenue. I had walked 9.6 miles before I got on the bus and wanted to walk 10 miles so I got off early. The total walk today about 10.5 miles. I had a chili size for dinner and repotted some plants.
Thursday: (03/29) Leftover chorizo and eggs for breakfast. My temporary crown broke last night so I called the dentist’s office to see if they could look at it. Lou and Dawn were already going to their office at 1000 today, I got an appointment for 0915. We all headed over early. Fortunately, my permanent crown had arrived. So it was installed a week early. I also got a filling installed. Both were scheduled for next week. Lou and Dawn had a cleaning and Dawn got a filling. We were all complete by 1100. We stopped by a Walmart Neighborhood market for some things. Lunch at Harry’s Hofbrau. I tinkered at home vacuuming the cars and putting things away. My new FI phone arrived so I started sitting it up. I chose to just transfer my Google Voice number to the FI phone. The data portion started working right away, the phone will take longer. Lou and I went out to a movie in the evening. We saw Red Sparrow, an interesting spy movie. A nice walk after the movie. A late ham and cheese sandwich for dinner.
Friday: (03/30) I made ham and eggs for breakfast which we enjoyed in the yard. I did some gardening and also plucked the weeds from between the bricks on the patio. We made a little shopping run around noon. We visited the Los Altos nursery and got some tomato plants for the garden. Dawn visited the Mountain View Library, while Lou picked up her lunch at Hong Kong bakery. Dim sum for lunch from Dim Sum King in Sunnyvale. Lou and Dawn got some things from the Indian market next door. Dawn was busy working in the garden. Split pea soup for dinner. Dawn and I took a walk around the neighborhood after dinner.
Saturday: (03/31) Ham and eggs again for breakfast. I was confused all day thinking it was April 1st. I worked in the yard on the sprinklers and other cleanup.Lou’s split pea soup for lunch. Dawn made stew for dinner.
Sunday: (04/01) Granola and banana for breakfast. It was a normal Sunday Morning watching the Political TV shows to start. We all spent some time working in the yard. I did some potting and also removed some old rubber bark from the unused portion of our garden spot. Dawn has plans to grow more this year. I received the memory card and case for my new phone but the screen protection sheets were incorrect. Hopefully, the proper ones are now on the way. Lou made hamburger salads for lunch. We went to Sweet Tomatoes Buffet for dinner.
Monday: (04/02) Granola and banana for breakfast. We were off early to an appointment in Mountain View. Also visited the library for some seeds from the seed library. Then on to San Jose where I replaced some caulk on the kitchen sink. Then over to the House Of Pizza for lunch. They make the best pizza around. Then more shopping on the way home. Leftover pizza for dinner. My new Google phone became active today. It may have been active for days. It started working when I turned off the call forwarding that moved over with the phone number from Google Voice and I finally got the proper recording. When I got home I had a voice message waiting.
Tuesday: (03/13) Rainy. I cleaned up all my stuff in the RV and did some vacuuming and cleaning. Tinkered with the computer collecting tax info. Otherwise relaxed inside, out of the rain. Granola for breakfast. Grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch. Lou’s spaghetti for dinner.
Wednesday: (03/14) Rainy. I did our grocery shopping in the morning. I worked on our tax return in the afternoon. The tax app crashed so tomorrow I get to start again. Granola for breakfast. Grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch. Artichoke chicken over rice for dinner. Pupin pie for Pie Day dessert.
Thursday: (03/15) Rainy. I worked on income tax preparation all day. I finished the first draft of our return. Granola and diced apple for breakfast. Pumpkin pie for lunch. Dinner at Chili’s Restaurant. After dinner, Lou felt ill so we went to Santa Clara.
Friday: (03/16) Rainy. Up early. Dawn and I shared a breakfast burrito from A Good Morning on our way to see Lou. We spent today with Lou in Santa Clara. Dawn and I had lunch from the Farmers Market, some really nice egg rolls. We all returned home about 1500. Leftover Chili’s items for dinner.
Saturday: (03/17) A rainy day. I spent the day relaxing and trying to catch up on sleep. PBJ toast for breakfast. Lou made corned beef and cabbage for dinner.
Sunday: (03/18) Lou made scrambled eggs with pico de gallo for breakfast. We drove over to Stockton to a shoe store that handles the shoes Dawn needs. Our local store closed. We stopped for lunch at Xochimilco Cafe in downtown Stockton then visited the shoe store. We also stopped at a few thrift stores before heading back toward home. We made this trip today because it was the first day of little rain for a while. Traffic was heavy. We made it home a little after 1900. I prepared grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner.
Monday: (03/19) Up early to deliver the Jeep to Yeaman Auto Body to get the damage repaired. It should be back home this Friday. Ernie brought me back home. After PBJ toast for breakfast, I drove Lou to Kaiser for an appointment. We did some grocery shopping on the way home. Lou made beef stroganoff potatoes for lunch. I had a dentist appointment at 1500. On the way home our tenant in San Jose called to say the toilet was stopped up. The plunger didn’t free it up. I agreed to come down but had to return home in Palo Alto first to pick up my tools. It was rush hour it took me a while to get there and I stopped for some egg rolls for dinner on the way. I got here about 1745. I tried out Dawn’s toilet a few times and it wasn’t stopped up. I then tried their toilet and it was clogged. I tried my super duper plunger and it wouldn’t clear it. I checked in the basement and there was only four ft of drain line that could be clogged but no cleanout. I removed the toilet and ran a snake through the drain pipe, no plug. So, evidently the toilet itself. I couldn’t get the snake through it either direction. I decided to just replace it. Thewas toilet has been a pain for a while with numerous problems and never flushed correctly anyway. I dashed off to Orchard Hardware to get a new toilet and returned. Not really a one person job to lift it but I managed. It took a while to get it in and when don it flushed extremely well. Better than ever. I did have a little leak at the bottom of the tank but need to remove it to fix it so not tonight. I’ll return with a wet vacuum tomorrow. They finally had a working toilet at 2200. I cleaned up my stuff and loaded the old toilet in the car. I also brought home a big four wheeled cart. And my final task was to remove all my tools from the apartment. I got home about 2300 and unloaded to the car. Really nice to get a good shower and get to bed.
Tuesday: (03/20) We all went down to San Jose early. I stopped on the way and bought some caulk for the toilet project. Breakfast burritos from La Victoria Taqueria. I love their orange sauce. Dawn had an appointment in the morning. Dawn and Lou were busy cleaning the apartment. Lou and I were off to visit Kaiser again. Later I got access to the new toilet and tightened the tank to eliminate a leak. The problem was that I followed the directions. Usually a bad idea. I had to lift it off the base, tighten a couple of nuts and reattach it. Easy to do because I had my wet vacuum this time. We had lunch at The Old Spaghetti Factory in San Jose. It didn’t agree with Lou so we dashed home. About 1630 I returned to San Jose on the bus and put some things inside that were moved outside the other day. The ride was nicer that anther commute in rush hour traffic, in the rain. I walked about five miles toward home through downtown San Jose and out the Alameda before catching the return bus. My dinner was a peanut butter cookie from a Mexican bakery downtown and some yogurt and a leftover grilled cheese sandwich. Home about 2030.
Wednesday: (03/21) Occasional rain in the morning drying out in the afternoon. Granola and diced apple for breakfast. I was off to an early dentist appointment in Cupertino. I got a new crown started. I picked up some dim sum for lunch on the way home. So nice that the newer pain killers they use don’t leave your entire face numb for hours after the appointment. In the afternoon I took Lou to an appointment. Back at home I cleaned my tools and disposed of the old toilet by breaking it up and putting into the garbage. I also disassembled the solid oak table I bought a few days ago. Should make some nice things when reused. Leftover stroganoff over bread for dinner. I also baked some cauliflower pieces for dinner.
Thursday: (03/22) I made a shopping run in the afternoon. I bought another toilet to replace one of ours here. I also did some grocery shopping. Lou made some peanut butter cookies. I made corned beef hash for breakfast. Yogurt for lunch. Pot roast beef for dinner.
Friday: (03/23) Dawn and I took Lou to an appointment in Santa Clara in the morning. Dawn visited a bookstore while I did a little car shopping. Lou wants to get rid of our little Hyundai Accent and get something bigger with a better ride. She’d like a Subaru Forester. I’d like a Subaru Outback. Neither cheap. I did find something I like at Enterprise Car Sales, a 2017 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk. I’ll have to get Lou to take a ride to see if it provides a smooth enough ride. At home in the afternoon, I replaced the toilet in our main bathroom. The primary reason is just to have an easier to operate flush handle and low water usage that still flushes completely on one flush. It’s the same model I installed in San Jose. And related to that, in the evening when we went to meet Lou, the tenant called to say there was a leak in the new toilet? Darn. Peach pie for breakfast. Egg rolls for early lunch from the Farmers Market. Early dinner from China Bistro in Mountain View.
Saturday: (03/24) We headed down to San Jose and parked at the house. I went inside to look at the leaking toilet. It was leaking. While there, the tenant pointed out a leak in the shower door and some missing grout around the kitchen sink. Dawn and I joined the March For Life rally in San Jose. A nice big crowd led by the students. The best sign seemed to be “When Leaders Act Like Children, Children Act Like Leaders”. And so it was! We had a large crowd even though we had rain, including a period of deluge. After the march, Dawn and I visited La Victoria Taqueria for a burrito lunch. Then we stopped at a Mexican bakery nearby for some dessert cookies. Back at the house I went to Orchard Hardware and bought the part I needed to fix the toilet. Since I couldn’t see anything wrong with the toilet as to why the tank leaked I bought a new bolt kit that included thicker tighter washers. I installed them and made them nice and tight. No leaks, and now hoping they stay that way. I then cleaned up some of the caulk around the shower door and replaced it. No action on the sink because I need to find tan caulk and it seems to be rare. After a little clean up we went to meet Lou and visit a while before heading home. Leftover corned beef hash for breakfast. A shared burrito to lunch. Roast beef sandwiches for dinner.
Sunday: (03/25) I made breakfast sandwiches with the leftover corned beef, eggs, and cheese. Nice! Yesterday I received some new safety cables for the RV toad connection. One of the EZconnect ends had been ground off when it dragged on the pavement. Dawn and I met Lou in Santa Clara around noon and had lunch with her. I spent some time in the afternoon looking for a Hyundai replacement. I found out the Hyundai isn’t worth much and Subaru are expensive even when well used. Further learned that they can’t be flat towed with either manual or automatic transmissions. So, looks like we may be looking at another Jeep. hopefully slightly used and cheap. Luckily, both Enterprise and Avis sell 2016-2017 used Jeep Renegade Trailhawks and a good price. They can be towed like our Cherokee. We need to confirm they provide a smooth ride for Lou. Leftovers for dinner. In the evening we met with Lou again
Monday: (03/26) I cleaned out the cooler in preparation for the coming hot weather. Dawn and I stopped for breakfast at the Country Inn in Cupertino then went to meet Lou. I called about noon to see if the Jeep was ready, and it was so I went off to pick it up. Ernie dropped me off at the shop. I picked up the Jeep then returned to Dawn and Lou in Santa Clara. We all came home and enjoyed a nap. Leftovers for dinner. Nice to have the Jeep back.
Tuesday: (03/27) Lou and I went grocery shopping first thing in the morning. Back at home, I made some chorizo scrambled eggs for breakfast. A little plant moving later. I returned the hanging plants to the arbor from the greenhouse. Steamed artichokes for lunch. Lou and Dawn were off to a lecture at the Jewish Community Center in the evening. I had dinner at China Bistro.
Wednesday: (03/28) Granola and banana for breakfast. I attended a webinar at 1000. A little before noon I headed off on a walk heading North on El Camino Real. I walked up to Menlo Park. I had some fish tacos at Rubio’s Mexican restaurant. I then caught a bus up to Redwood City where I walked out toward the bay then back to El Camino Real. I caught a bus back California Avenue. I had walked 9.6 miles before I got on the bus and wanted to walk 10 miles so I got off early. The total walk today about 10.5 miles. I had a chili size for dinner and repotted some plants.
Thursday: (03/29) Leftover chorizo and eggs for breakfast. My temporary crown broke last night so I called the dentist’s office to see if they could look at it. Lou and Dawn were already going to their office at 1000 today, I got an appointment for 0915. We all headed over early. Fortunately, my permanent crown had arrived. So it was installed a week early. I also got a filling installed. Both were scheduled for next week. Lou and Dawn had a cleaning and Dawn got a filling. We were all complete by 1100. We stopped by a Walmart Neighborhood market for some things. Lunch at Harry’s Hofbrau. I tinkered at home vacuuming the cars and putting things away. My new FI phone arrived so I started sitting it up. I chose to just transfer my Google Voice number to the FI phone. The data portion started working right away, the phone will take longer. Lou and I went out to a movie in the evening. We saw Red Sparrow, an interesting spy movie. A nice walk after the movie. A late ham and cheese sandwich for dinner.
Friday: (03/30) I made ham and eggs for breakfast which we enjoyed in the yard. I did some gardening and also plucked the weeds from between the bricks on the patio. We made a little shopping run around noon. We visited the Los Altos nursery and got some tomato plants for the garden. Dawn visited the Mountain View Library, while Lou picked up her lunch at Hong Kong bakery. Dim sum for lunch from Dim Sum King in Sunnyvale. Lou and Dawn got some things from the Indian market next door. Dawn was busy working in the garden. Split pea soup for dinner. Dawn and I took a walk around the neighborhood after dinner.
The backyard in spring.
Saturday: (03/31) Ham and eggs again for breakfast. I was confused all day thinking it was April 1st. I worked in the yard on the sprinklers and other cleanup.Lou’s split pea soup for lunch. Dawn made stew for dinner.
Sunday: (04/01) Granola and banana for breakfast. It was a normal Sunday Morning watching the Political TV shows to start. We all spent some time working in the yard. I did some potting and also removed some old rubber bark from the unused portion of our garden spot. Dawn has plans to grow more this year. I received the memory card and case for my new phone but the screen protection sheets were incorrect. Hopefully, the proper ones are now on the way. Lou made hamburger salads for lunch. We went to Sweet Tomatoes Buffet for dinner.
Monday: (04/02) Granola and banana for breakfast. We were off early to an appointment in Mountain View. Also visited the library for some seeds from the seed library. Then on to San Jose where I replaced some caulk on the kitchen sink. Then over to the House Of Pizza for lunch. They make the best pizza around. Then more shopping on the way home. Leftover pizza for dinner. My new Google phone became active today. It may have been active for days. It started working when I turned off the call forwarding that moved over with the phone number from Google Voice and I finally got the proper recording. When I got home I had a voice message waiting.
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