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We are Terry & Cathye Kinkelaar. If you've followed my blog in the past, you know that Lydia, my beautiful wife of 52 years, and I made the lifestyle choice to move to Oregon in 2017. You've seen my posts about losing her in May 2020 to cancer. Although I was left alone, I am pleased to say that I have found happiness again. In April 2021, I met Cathye, who also lost her longtime husband in 2020. Well, we fell in love and were married in April 2022. So, if folks are still interested, I will continue to post here as we move forward with our lives and adventures!

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

2017 Trip – Blog #25 – A Rest Day & Then Back At It!


Sunday, July 16th, 2017…..  I woke up early from a nice restful sleep in our new bed! We showered, ate, and then got started on our day. Most of the rest in pod #2 is garage stuff plus smaller items for the house. That stuff was what I worked on this morning. That pod is now empty!  We also moved some furniture items around in our bedroom so that’s done now as well.  I reassembled my office desk and got that set up.  Then it was back to the last pod.  Pod #3 has more garage stuff than anything.  I moved a few items out and then took the rest of the day off.  Tour de France, Nascar, Indy Car and Formula 1 races were on my list to catch up on so the work can wait until tomorrow. Hey, I’m retired – if I can’t get it done today, there’s always tomorrow!

   
Monday, July 17th, 2017…..  We had another good night’s sleep. Or rather I did. Lydia is having trouble catching up on her sleep.  I started in on pod #3. Meanwhile, Lydia worked on unpacking her kitchen stuff and figuring where everything should go.  I’m sure she will rearrange it before she is through. I got about ¾ of the pod emptied.  Some boxes go to the workshop, some to the garage.  I am removing all of the tape so we can see in and figure out where it goes.  This is what I have so far for the workshop.





After a day of toting boxes, we called it an evening.  We made up a list of things we needed to pick up (or at least check prices.  We drove back to Eugene and went to their Lowes.  We are looking for new toilet seats, cabinets for the garage, shelves for the closet, new drawer pulls for the master bath, etc. etc. We are also looking for a microwave.  We left our over the range model in Ca. and Walt took his countertop model, so we have been using the motorhome’s microwave. We found some that we liked but will shop around before getting one.  We stopped at Arby’s because neither of us had lunch.  This would be linner. We also stopped at Mattress Firm to return the second mattress cover that our guy had misordered.  We were able to exchange it for a queen size for the guest bed so that was easy. While we were there we decided to go to our now favorite movie theater to see Despicable Me3. It was pretty good. Once back home I started in on a few more boxes since it was still light out.  Our neighbors, Paul and Corey were out walking their goldendoodle puppy, Ollie, and stopped by to introduce themselves.  Rich, from next door saw us and came over.  They welcomed us to the block and gave us a little history of Oak Creek Estates.  It sounds like a pretty nice block of neighbors.  Hope we fit in!  After that it got dark and I closed up everything and went to bed.   

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