September 15 & 16, 2010

Wednesday 15~~~~Today we are closing up camp at Fisherman's Bend Camp Ground and pulling the trailer into Salem to have a few repairs done before we take off for Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona, returning to Salem for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was hard leaving a job we both enjoyed so much including the other hosts and Park Rangers. Kathy and Lew had all of us over for French toast this morning for a final last get together. We took a lot of pictures this morning of all of us sitting in the new golf carts the park got for doing work. They are the neatest ever, they even have a dump box to dump gravel or wood from the trailer box. They are taller than a regular golf cart, but they sure do go fast and ride smooth. These are like a Hummer to golf carts as a Hummer is to a SUV. The one Kent and I drive is so old, it doesn't even have two headlights, one is missing and the other one shoots straight up in the air. LOL That is real fun driving around the park at night to collect from a camper or to check on a problem. We didn't have a lot of work to do this morning after all the work we did yesterday getting the trailer ready for the road, so after all our goodbyes, we hooked up for our exit from the park. Kent pulled the trailer into Salem to the repair shop and I drove my car with Pepsi to our house. We had to empty out the refrigerator in the camper as they will be working on the ice maker and we will have to find room for all those bottles of stuff and keep it in our fridge at home. Usually we leave everything in the camper while we are home and we don't have to replace everything when we leave. It felt good to be home again even if it is for just a short spell again. Thursday 16~~~~ Kent has a Dr. appointment with his Dr. in Portland this morning, so he left for Portland and I baked another rhubarb cobbler because the last one was so good, we ate it so fast. This afternoon I started painting the guest bedroom that we have made into an office. I really worked hard today doing it as I had to remove some real intricate wall paper border. I thought I could paint over it, and I did about 15 feet and found I didn't like it, so I had to stop and remove it with the paint on it. YUK!!!! What a job!! Here is two pictures of what it was like to remove!!!!! Tress and the kids came over for dinner, I needed a reason to stop; I was working way too hard. Kent had dinner with Cindy and Erik in Portland, so I fixed some left over beef stew over buttered noodles, a salad and hot rolls for us for dinner while Tress helped the kids do their homework. After they left, I thought I had better get on the computer and get the blog updated with where we are and where we will soon be. I will catch up the old blogs from my journal later and post pictures with all of it.