July Rain & Both Chairs Are In

The chart above shows the average rainfall that Sacramento receives each month.  As you can see, July typically has no rain, while June and August have very little.  So we were all surprised with the “little” rain that we received Sunday morning through Monday morning.  Well, there was rain, it amounted to .02 of an inch….still, rain in July in Sacramento, it just doesn’t happen very often.  The forecast is a 50% chance of more rain over the next few days...we will see.

  

Now in Arkansas, where I lived for over 22 years, and in Florida, where I have lived for over 2 years, it rains every month.  But both are very hot and muggy during the summer….here in Sacramento area it is just hot, but cools down just about every month due to what they now call the “Delta Breeze”.  

Now when I was a kid and into my early 30’s I don’t recall ever hearing the term “Delta Breeze”.  Kind of like the “polar vortex” it is one of those “Weather Terms” to draw interest to, what else, the weather.  A look in Wikipedia and you see that the Polar Vortex has been known since the mid-1800’s.  The term Delta Breeze is not even in there under its own heading.  Now I know that there was a cool breeze just about every summer night when I was younger…and they called it various things such as “Sea Breeze”, “Breeze from the Pacific”, etc. etc.   Don’t know when everyone took up the term “Delta Breeze”, but it is a term you hear every summer night on every nightly weather report.

Getting the couch out was a small chore….of course, Arny helped, or I helped Arny would be the better way to say it.  With his tools and expertise, we had it out in an hour, and put back together again in about 15 minutes.  After we got it back together again we moved it just a small ways, and we were both surprised how heavy it was.  The chairs made it through the door without a problem.  Of course, one thing we “RVers” like about La-Z-Boy recliners is that the backs come off making them easy to fit through motorhome, 5th wheel and trailer doors.

We both have these slick TV style laptop trays, which also double for an eating table.  Yes, there is a large table we could put up, but it is not as friendly as these movable trays are.  And the trays fold up quick for travel…we just lay them along the side of the bed or on the bed .  The other good thing is that we will be able to store some stuff back behind the chairs, which will be a nice feature.

Skruffy just wants to know where Bubba and Mom are going to sit??????

Out with the Couch, in with the Recliners….errr!

Our couch once sat here in the slide out.  It was also a fold-out bed, although I don’t think anyone could sleep on the bed with that thin mattress for more than a night.  As I mentioned about a month ago, we ordered two new recliners from Lazyboy.  Well yesterday was delivery day…and tomorrow will be delivery day too…because only one was on the truck, the other got left back at the warehouse down in the L.A. area.  Anyway, I will wait until both are in before I take a picture.  

In the meantime, we are having an issue with a few of our windows.  Here you can see the opening mechanics.

We have five windows that open like this….this one is open “all the way”.

This black “gadget”, for lack of a better term, runs along this guide.  But we have one window which has broken “gadgets”, and finding a replacement, or a total replacement of all the opening hardware, is a challenge.  We are still in communication with Dynamax, and sent pictures today, but this may not work out either.  Arney tried using two small washers, but they just bind up so much, and now we have another window which has one broken gadget that runs inside the guide.  At least the washers allow for the window to stay locked, while the other window is loosely locked since only one side is still in the guide.

Mom finished up her rehab yesterday…walked with her PT over to my sister’s house and back, causing another sleep period like the one I photographed previously.  She is doing real well, and we are all so happy that much of her pain is gone, although some might question about that pain in her lower bottom exterior that lives in a motorhome next door, also known as her PITA youngest son.

Mom Takes Bigger Steps – New Motorhome Chairs

Mom got in and out of bed many times today, sat up for over two hours, read the newspaper for the first time since Sunday (she reads it EVERY DAY), and had a pretty darn good day.  It hurts to walk, but the pain was much less than yesterday...tomorrow will be even better.

    

Sisters are in Las Vegas to see Celine Dion.  Every year after their busy season (both are very busy from just before Christmas through April with their jobs) they try and get away for a few days to a week.  This time they went down to Southern California to visit relatives, and then over to Vegas to “just see Celine” (and what ever else happens in Vegas…stays in Vegas).  Mom asked me to ask Patty to take of selfie of themselves and send it via text.  Well, here is mom looking at their selfie text.  Later, Patty sent one of Sandy playing the penny slots, and from the looks it, she must have won it big.

Tomorrow mom transfer to Pine Creek Care Center, skilled nursing home for physical and occupational therapy.  Marcia had a little over 3 weeks of this when she had her hip replaced a few years ago, and we are hoping that mom can get home in 2.  Pine Creek is just over 2 miles from their home, so it is an ideal spot for this….and Medicare.gov rates Pine Creek 5 out of 5 stars.  It is nothing fancy, but they have what it takes, and the staff were real real nice to dad and I when we visited today.

After we left the hospital we visited the La-Z-Boy just down the street.  We have decided to ditch the couch and get two recliners, which should be in by late July.  La-Z-Boy recliners have a feature that most do not….the back can be easily removed making them easier to get into RVs. They have a lifetime guarantee on frame, springs, reclining mechanism….but not on padding or upholstery.  The guarantee does not include labor, but the parts under the guarantee can be typically easily replaced by a handy person.

 

The recliners do not swivel or rock, per our request, and they will be leather and a color similar to above.  They will be made in July, should be delivered by late July, early August…we will know in a week or so if we were able to lay claim to the two already scheduled to be built in mid-July.  If not, then ours will be built in August.  La-Z-Boy recliners are not cheep….but as they say, “You get what you pay for.”  Since they are all over the USA, if we run into problems we should be able to get things taken care of easily enough.  With this addition, now we just need to get the engine tuned up, hoses checked and probably replaced, and I think we will be ready for an Alaska trip next year.