Oregon again, Finally

16 Aug 10 – 22 Aug 10

Another week on God's wonderful earth. We arrived without incident – Miriam did drive the car as it was almost worthless to put it on the dolly for 75 miles. What a week we had – all settled in and found a church for Sunday before dark. The church was not a keeper, so we will try another in a couple of weeks. Next week we are going to go to Crescent City, CA to church and then to a quilt show they are having there.

We did move again on Monday, but stayed within the park where we are. We had the opportunity to move down closer to everything important – the restrooms and showers and we took it. This is one of the few places we stayed not having sewer hookups at every site. When the tanks get full we drive around to the dump station, but it is easier to use their showers and create less water in the tank. Now we can almost walk straight across instead of a city block or more. We are staying here for a month so this will eliminate one trip to the dump. The trip entails closing everything up and disconnecting from everything then reconnecting when finished. It is not a real big deal yet can take the better part of an hour.

We did do some driving around looking at different houses I had found on the internet at Realty.com. We saw two or three we will find a Realtor to go look at. We also have a new address – I will NOT post it, but if you send me an email I will mail it back. We spent parts of three days this week looking at houses and going out sightseeing in the afternoons. On one of our trips we saw bobcat cub – just bigger than a house cat going from the creek side of the road to the hills(no pictures). We did find some wonderful blackberries just getting ripe. It looks like I will have my work cut out for me one afternoon picking berries. These are those big Oregon berries as large as the end of any finger up to the first joint. If you find a good place to pick you can fill a five gallon bucket in less than an hour. I will make some jelly and Miriam will make some syrup. She can never get them to jell.

After much discussion and looking at more than ten different houses we went back and looked at one a second time. We made an offer Saturday afternoon and it was accepted later in the evening. It looks like we have found a home before Miriam's birthday, which was not part of her request. We have both enjoyed the weather here as it is in the lower to mid 60's without the humidity. Miriam said the other day - “Just like San Francisco weather.”

All but one picture is from earlier times and places:

On his way to Sturgis, SD
You have to name it – looks like Model A Ford running gear
Old three window Chevy pickup
1955 Chevy – that was our first car
Look at the size of the Fuchsia – over six feet tall in Klamath, CA