Life in the 'Berg

Herbert Hoover was born in Newberg and there is a small park dedicated to him just three blocks from us. Funny how you never hear of Hoover much except at election time when Dems compare GOPs economic policies to Herbert Hoover. While this is not a political discussion, it is interesting how our politicos have villified Mr. H.

Anyway, Rose and I walked over to the park and while I had been there before, it was several years ago. It is a Disc Golf course, with nine chain baskets each about 200 feet apart. It is challenging because it is a steep ravine. There are paved or limestoned paths that take you from basket (hole) to basket. Rose walked the course with me and was a huffing and puffing when we finished. It is sad to watch such an athletic friend go down hill. She tries, but she is not the dog she was just a year ago when all this slow down began.

She has limited movement in this house becasue of the hardwood floors. We have a path to the back door with her mats and one good sized throw rug in the hall that she spends most of her time on. She does have free reign of the back yard so she can go where she wants when outside, but the big deck is also a problem for her...panics her, really.

We are making some decisions as we go...trying to budget. What has to be done now, what we need to do this summer and what can wait. We figured we need a storage unit until the bedroom/bathroom addition is complete...whenever that will be. We are going to expand one bedroom into a master suite with a bath and walkin closet. That is a must since the bedrooms are so small. The other bedroom will remain the way it is and be the guest room/den.

Bren is calling in some moving chips with some strong backed guys from their Meeting. May 6/7 is the target. That makes it imperitive we clock 500 mpd on the trip out. It is 2500 miles anyway you cut it.

Aleene painted all afternoon...laundry/mud room. We hope to lay lanolium tomorrow.

The kids came over for supper and the parents and Asher went to church for an activity. Tru stayed here and played dominos with us. He is such a joy to have here on visits. He wangles a book story out of Grammy and a made up story out of Pappy (embelished excerpts of the Nun's Priest's Tale from Chaucer in modern, not Middle English.) He likes the animal characters that I use (Pertilote, Chanticleer, Reynard, Urus, etc.) Tomorrow Aleene goes over for child care duties at ten while Amy starts her two week stint of visiting her student teachers. That was one of the reason we planned our journey for this time of year.

We got invited to a Trail Blazers vs. Lakers pro basketball game. Long story short, one of my November students (a Native American) works for a tribe that owns a communications company (Rio Communications) that has a box at the Rose Palace. I am not one for pro BB, but, hey...Victor asked and we said yes. That is March 1. Here is their home page...follow the links if you like. The do more than casinos.