Saturday Morning at Taylor Creek

   On my morning walk today with Mollie,  I paused and sat for a while on a bench on the boardwalk next to Taylor Creek.  As I sat there, I closed my eyes and listened to the morning.  I heard the creek moving by.  I heard geese honking as they flew by in the distance. The Mountain Chickadees were singing there songs which to me sounds like, "Cheese Burger".  I heard the pleasing chirps of several red-winged blackbirds as they flitted around the nearby trees.I listened to two Mergansers as they got to know each other. 
   As I opened my eyes the ducks were drifting downstream.  The blackbirds were still here and there around us.  The sun was trying very hard to warm the air around me.  I needed to capture the moment.  I did and Mollie and I headed back to the trailer to have breakfast.

A morning walk

This morning Mollie and I went for our normal early morning walk.  We crossed over the highway and followed the trail down to the board walk that traverses the lower Taylor Creek area.  We watched a pair of Mallards as they preened themselves in the morning sun.  The leaves of the Aspens nearby quivered and quaked to a wind that I did not feel. The water temperature had to have been cold but it was warmer than the air temp so steam was floating above the moving water.

Selling the House the end.

When we woke up Saturday morning we had a home for sale in Eugene.  At 4:00 pm we found out that we had an offer on it.  Our realtor emailed the offer to us and I downloaded and printed it.  We followed along while she read it to us.  The next morning we scanned the signed pages into our computer and emailed them back to her and our house is now sold.  Or at least the sign in front of our house says "Sale Pending".

WOW !! 

New Adventure

We have left 873 behind.  Literally and figuratively.  The house is empty.  We have began again.  Our adventures will continue.

Back at it again

We are back at it again.  Yipee!

  We are parked in the RV campground,  just off Hwy 89 a few miles west of South Lake Tahoe, California.  We are in the same campground, in fact, the same campsite as last year.  It seems a good fit for us, nice a flat, close to the volunteer rec building with the bathrooms, laundry, and kitchen which is good.
   We arrived last Saturday and spent most of the day setting up and unpacking.  We have not been "out" since we came home from Malheur last year so things were everywhere.  (There's a big difference from having the rig in the driveway to actually living in it full time.)  Because we were also selling our house and moving everything to storage, there were many food items that were loaded into the trailer at the end with the idea of sorting it when we arrived here.  R did that yesterday and many items ended up in the trash or combined into another container.

   Life at Tallac Historic Site is great!  Last Monday was our first day.  It was like a family reunion.  Lots of hugs, lots of smiles, lots and lots of laughter!   There were one couple DG and LG joining the crew for the first time.  They were welcomed with open arms and hugs to boot.  After 15 -20  minutes of catching up conversations we sat down in front of a blazing fire in the main room of the Baldwin House.  JD our superviser, did a valiant job trying to keep us all on track and told us what we needed to know and got us going on our tasks to get the place open for Memorial Day.  We scattered to our posts still chattering and munching pieces of donuts on our way.

   The week was very busy with much work to do.  But as the saying goes, "Many hands make light work" much was accomplished.  One by one, the buildings were opened, cleaned, and made ready for visits by our guests.  By Thursday, the majority of the buildings were ready for the opening day which is next Saturday of the Memorial Day weekend.  It will be fun to see the folks enjoying the place.

Moving Part VI

   Last night was the first night that both my wife and I slept through the night.  Moving yourself is a lot of work and a lot of stress.  Both of us have found ourselves waking up at night worrying about some detail of the move and unable to go back to sleep.  I have to spend some time reading to divert my mind and R goes into the family room and turns on an old movie to put herself to sleep. 
   We have been devoting most of our time wrapping valuables and packing boxes.  You really find out how much stuff you have acquired when you start digging through closets and garage shelves.  When we find a new house and get settled, we are going to host a HUGE garage sale!

Moving Part V

   It has been 21 days since we signed the papers putting the house on the market.  Yesterday we had two realtors call and set appoinments to view our home.  We left and ran errands during that time.  We returned to find out neither realtor had stopped by or called to cancel.  Grrrrrr.........

    The past couple of days has not been our best.  Tuesday we drove to the coast, to Bandon, to sign the papers selling our property over there.  We bought it thirty years ago partially with an inheritance I received from my Aunt Hildur.  The idea was to build a family beach house on it someday when funds became available.  Well, the funds never came and the family vacation home was never built, so with us moving north, it seemed the time to give someone else the opportunity to own it.  It probably was the right thing to do but it wasn't easy to say goodbye.  We were both bummed about it.

   Not having any offers on the Eugene house did not help matters.  Our realtor was suggesting that perhaps removing all the furniture out of the house would help it sell, because our furniture is "not modern and follks have trouble seeing their furniture in such a dated environment".   Maybe she is right, but it was not a tune I was happy to listen to at the time.   More bummer feelings.

   Then, to make matters worse, both of our realtors had a discussion and their analysis of the situation was that unless we has an offer on the table for our place, we would not have a strong enough buying position to have an offer accepted in the hot market in Canby/ Oregon City.  I emailed our realtor cancelling our trip to view a house up there until something changed.

   Yesterday, our realtor called and there is an offer on our house.  We are going to find out about it at 11am today, Friday.  The buyer's realtor wants to present it to us in person.  It is the way it used to be done.  I am hoping that it doesn't mean that she is going to try to spring a low ball price on us.  If so we are back to square one.