August 16, 2021
It is an exciting day for us today! Most of our grandchildren start school for the first time in 17 months…
Or as they say in Burbank: “Primer Dia de Escuela! Kinder, Grado 2, Grado 3…”
But on to today’s activities:
We took the truck in for an oil change… I tried to get an appointment for today a week ago, and I was told by the Chevy dealer and the GMC dealer that they were too busy. When I asked the GMC dealer, “What am I supposed to do?” he replied, “There’s a Jiffy-Lube right across the street!”…
We stopped in at Fred Meyer to do some grocery shopping…
After we returned to the Villa Lynda remembered that she forgot one item, so she walked to the nearby Kwik Stop Market…
But they didn’t have what she needed, so she walked a bit further to the Albertson’s…
So after that exhausting round of activity we took it easy the rest of the afternoon. We enjoyed Happy Hours with friends, then we joined others for a post happy hours Happy Hour…
An enjoyable time was had by all…
August 17, 2021
The caravaners toured the Museum of Clean this morning…
Donald Andrew Aslett (born 1935) is an American entrepreneur and author who specializes in cleaning and housekeeping products, services, and techniques. He co-founded Varsity House Cleaning Company, a house cleaning service, in 1957.
He is considered a cleaning expert and has written books about how to reduce the time spent cleaning by reducing clutter, selecting and organizing the efficient cleaning tools, and creating what he calls a self-cleaning house.
In 2011, he opened the Museum of Clean in Pocatello, Idaho, a six-story building with a theater, art gallery, and collection of 6,000 artifacts. The building is a restored warehouse in Pocatello’s historic warehouse district…
They do have the worlds Largest Janitor!
The musem has collections of vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and similar apparatus…
This display is close to home for us… In 1974 there was a winter storm that brought giant waves to San Onofre, at San Clemente, where we typically came 4-5 times per year. Hank “Crawdad” Wilson, a master surfer, who lived in nearby Dana Point, went to surf those giant waves. Unfortunately, his board was in the shop getting some Fiberglas work done. So he grabbed the closest thing in the shape of a surfboard – an ironing board!
He hit the waves and created a surfing legend that day…
(I have no idea what this has to do with clean…)
After the museum we headed north to Blackfoot, ID. To the old train depot…
Because, after all – we are in Idaho…
The potato museum was even more fun than the clean museum… We watched videos of potato harvest, we saw how McDonalds makes their French fries. There is also a potatoe, autographed by Dan Quail…!
And it has a café! We shared a baked potato with a few toppings for lunch…
We returned to the Villa…
This evening we are having a group dinner – baked potatoes!
An enjoyable time was had by all…
Adventures in the Villa 