Back in the noise and waste

 Elizabeth’s father passed last Tuesday.  She flew down the Friday before and I drove the Rv back to pechanga.  Cut our stay in Washington short by about a week.  We’ll be here for the holidays.

The Quest continues

 We have been looking at a lot of houses and exploring the possibility of building on property.  The problem with most home builders is that they have a 18-24 month lead time right now.  The problem with buying an existing house is that we haven't found something that is what we want at the price we can afford.  The search continues.  Nothing on the web looks as good as it does in person.  Looked at a home in a nice area and from the pictures it looked like a log home.  But it was pretend log siding and there was a pool with green water and someone is harvesting timber from the property.  Went to another place where the shop was obviously used to grow the herb.  The realtor pointed out a "water feature".  Translation:  A Home Depot small plastic pond filled with stagnant water.  Stayed near a golf course for a week and went to a State Park in Oregon on the Washington border. They've got a La Nina weather pattern going in the Pacific Northwest which is the opposite of SoCal meaning we get more rain than usual.  No problem though.  Took a day trip to Astoria, nice little town.  More houses to look at today.  I think the realtors we've been working with might be getting impatient with us but we're not here to please them.  New houses come up all the time.  Monday we will move down the Columbia toward Vancouver for the remainder of our time up here.  Plan to head back to SoCal on the 18th.  

Astoria Column

View from the top

Bridge over Columbia River and the Pacific

Bailey in a rare calm moment.  He's growing and a day doesn't go by that he makes us laugh with his antics.