Re: From Gail re: dinners with you

[Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>]

On Mon, 5 May 2025, http://www.cox.net/~g3 wrote:
 > Hi Noelle,
 > 
 > Before I spend a lot of time trying to pick out what I should serve you and
 > Robert for dinner while you are here, since he is vegan, I didn't know what
 > to do. Would it be best if you both look up what restaurants in SB/Goleta
 > that have both vegan and regular food that you would like to go to for both
 > those dinners and then let me know? I don't have any recipes for vegan
 > dinners and therefore have never cooked vegan dinner food before. Please
 > reply ASAP. 

Robert said he could cook his food. We did this when we stayed with 
our sister-in-law who said she didn't have any vegan food, but in 
the pantry there were vegan ingredients he was able to use to make 
some food. There's also Trader Joe's.

 > By the way, did you ever receive the more informal version of Don's Advanced
 > Directive that I mailed you before I left for Costa Rica?

Yes. I think I had a copy before but that's fine.

 > I made a list of tasks that you and Robert could help me with. There isn't
 > time for you to be able to accomplish all of them, so you can just pick out
 > the ones you would like to do and feel you know how to do them. What you
 > can't do, I will later find someone else to do from around this area:
 > 1.	Get our heating blanket to work. It stopped working after SCE
 > suddenly stopped the electricity this past Sat. eve. through mid Sun. AM.
 > Maybe I need a surge protector in that bedroom area.

We had the same problem. We bought a new electric plug unit for the 
electric blanket but it didn't solve the problem. There is a short 
somewhere in the coils inside the blanket and it can't be fixed. We 
still need to buy a whole new  electric blanket.
 
 > 2.	Get the sensor pad to work again. It stopped working after I got
 > home from Costa Rica with that week of no use. I pressed the test button,
 > but that didn't make it work either. It may need a new battery, but I don't
 > know where to buy that nor how to install it.

We can check it out and look for battery.

 > 3.	Gardening on our patios: such as trimming the succulents, planting
 > cherry tomatoes and herbs and maybe anything natural to this climate and
 > area.

maybe if we have time

 > 4.	Now that I have found the charger for my camera, make sure I know
 > how to operate that camera before my brother Gordon and his family arrive
 > here this July.

OK

 > 5.	Get a simple to use cell phone that will work internationally and
 > make sure I know how to operate it.

We can discuss this when we're there.

> 6.	What to do regarding our Carbonite subscription that expires on 5/9.

Robert can show you how to do this.

 > 7.	Help me to buy a smaller propane tank at Ace/Miner's Hardware for
 > our BBQ and install it making sure I know how to work it along with getting
 > a fire extinguisher - all to meet the new rules at Encina Royale.

If we have time.

> 8.	Help me buy a single bed for my computer room and move the hideabed
 > into the living room and get rid of the present old living room sofa.

Here the garbage company takes away old couches if you make an 
appointment. Do they have that there?

> 9.	Help me buy a lateral file cabinet so that I can put more files in
 > it that are in piles in my computer room and in a storage shed so I no
 > longer pay rent on that.

if we have time.

 > Best,
 > Gail