Thursday, December 28th,
2017…... This morning I woke up early and took Quincy
out for a nice long walk. We wanted to
do a full lap around the property but I stopped short a bit because Ollie, the
neighbor’s Goldendoodle, was out. Quincy
is a cool dog but is not very social so we haven’t introduced them yet. After
that I came in and showered and we headed out to check if Kevin’s was open
yet. Still closed so we drove into
Albany and tried a new place that we have seen a lot of cars at. It’s called Pop’s Branding Iron Restaurant.
It was pretty good. We’ll go back
if/when we are in that area but we’re not gonna be frequent flyers there. On
the way home, we stopped at Sam Fitness and got our cards. We waited because we were told that UHC was
changing their Silver Slippers cards to something else. We have received nothing to date so we went
and got registered. We won’t have to pay
either way so we’re good. We also stopped at the DMV to check on what is needed
to register the motorhome. Our other three vehicles are owned outright but we
have a lienholder on the motorhome. The tags expire this month so we wanted to
get going on it. Ok, follow this if you
can – we need to pay $7.00 for vin
number verification (no other inspections required) now and can bring the coach
in to them to verify anytime. We need to
contact our lienholder (USAA) to let them know we are sending them a
packet. We then have to write a check
payable to Oregon DMV for the fees (total of $468.00) and MAIL it in that
packet to USAA (yeah!), along with the request for Oregon registration form
filled out. The DMV gave us a letter to
enclose explaining the process to the financial lender. They are required to verify the check as
payment and then they have to send it back to the Oregon DMV along with my
current Calif pink slip (that they of course are holding until I pay off the
loan). Oregon DMV will process the
paperwork, issue them a new Oregon pink slip naming them the lienholder
again. When all is done, I will get an
Oregon registration with my name and theirs on it just like Calif. plus my new
Oregon license plates. When I called USAA, they said they were certainly familiar
with this process but they said that Oregon was the only state that does it
that way! Go figure. It was a lot of work but, hey, my tags last
year in Calif. were $584. The $468.00 in
Oregon is for two years so this is way cheaper and well worth the extra effort!
Penny got back
later in the afternoon, with no issues and feeling fine. She took Quincy and was planning on stopping
for some takeout on the way home. We
also had Dana come by this afternoon with our (rv garage) contract to
sign. They are ready to go but to date
the permit hasn’t been received but the county offices were closed for the
holiday and when they were in office, it was with reduced staff. That’s the
lightning speed that things are done here in Oregon!
Friday, December 29th, 2017…...
I got up early this morning and showered and
got ready. I was expecting to get a text
from sis to come over and walk Quincy but when she did text me she said she was
feeling ok and was heading out for the walk.
I was already out and went off and got coffee and breakfast before
returning home and beginning the day working on the rest of the Christmas
storage. I got all of the containers out and on the back porch. Lydia still has
to
work on getting
things back in the tubs. I cleaned up
the yard lights and the porch stuff and got all the garland down inside so that’s
all done. Our Christmas village still
needs to be reboxed but that’s about all that’s left.
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