Oregon Living 2018 – Blog #30 – Haircuts, License Plates,a Park Bench and Puppy Pics!

 

Tuesday, February 27th, 2018…...  For some reason I woke up early this morning.  I slept well but still I was wide awake and ready to get up. After I showered I checked the weather outside. The grass was all frosty.

We’re supposed to get cooler weather for the next couple of days.  Interestingly enough we have daffodils blooming now.

Bill and Treasa have them coming up at their home in Ohio too so I guess they like cold, cold weather! No calls today from Dana so the concrete pour saga continues. After breakfast, I decided to call USAA to get an update on my DMV process to get my motorhome registered in Oregon.  Last call to USAA I was told that they had petitioned the Calif. DMV to get the certificate of title sent to them.  They were instructed by the Oregon DMV to provide it to them so they could transfer it to an Oregon cert. of title.  Long story short, USAA showed that they received it back from the DMV and forwarded it to Oregon DMV on Jan 31^st. They said the Oregon DMV will process and send me the plates within 30 days. Later we headed into town to get our hair cut.  I have been going to a local barberess and Lydia found a $10 Tuesday salon (called Rumors) that she has been going to.  We both went there today.  It was ok. I’ll go back.  Once we got home, we rested for a bit and later Tina, our mail carrier, drove up to the house with a parcel (a part I ordered for my Acadia).  But guess what she also had? – yep – our Oregon plates! Talk about coincidence!  Later, I went out and put them on the motorhome.  Lydia checked and found they had finally cashed our DMV check.  So, everything is now cycled through and complete with the DMV for all of our vehicles.  Yaay! 

We decided to go to dinner tonight and Lydia wanted Chinese, so we drove to Albany and tried our local Panda Express.  It was ok but we found they add a lot of large pieces of onions to their chow mein, which neither of us cared for. Everything else was good, the same as SoCal.      

Wednesday, February 28th, 2018……  Lydia and Penny had a lunch date with Penny’s neighbor today so I was on my own.  The rains are supposed to start later today so I’m guessing we won’t have any work going on. So, I decided to go out and eat and then go to Philomath (just outside Corvallis) to the Habitat for Humanity store there. I am looking for a bench for the back of the property.  I want to set up a seating area out there and maybe a firepit or something.  Hey, I have the space!  Also, I’m looking for a mounting arm for the DirecTV dish I snagged from my sister’s house. I will put this dish on the rv garage wall so I can get a signal to the DirecTV receiver in the motorhome while it’s parked inside….

I got back with one find – the park bench!

$21.00 from Habitat for Humanity.  Not too bad and it’s all oak and very strong.

I’m going to clean it up a bit then move it out back.  I have to wait until it’s dry enough to drive the truck out there so I can clean up the area and prep it for the bench and logs.  But for now, the bench will work for use by the contractors next to the job site.  Lydia got back later and since we were both out for lunch, we decided to eat a lite meal instead of cooking dinner. We settled in and watched the premier of this season’s Survivor, one of our favorite shows.  Oh yeah, I didn't forget - here’s a pic of mom and her eight pups.  

They were born on Feb 20th.  Four boys and four girls.  Since the last litter (from another momma)  had parvo, which she thinks came from owners visiting in person to pick their pups, Beckie is going to do assigned picks down the road for all eight of the owners. We are pick number three.