Heading South for Winter

We are getting a little later start this winter heading south.  Craig's Mother recovered well and got good reports from her doctor on the healing process from her last surgery so we left after two weeks and headed back to our leased site in Chehalis to get the motorhome ready and the site buttoned up for the winter.  While in Yelm, we had a visit from my nephew and family and spent the day doing activities with the kids - skating, ice hockey and ice cream.

We also got Lexie another platelet shot and then they did additional tests on her liver due to the liver enzymes creeping up since January.  So three procedures in two weeks and she definitely lost a lot of hair in the 5 spots they had to shave her for the procedures.  Her liver biopsy results came back as chronic hepatitis with some inflammation.  They can't tell us when the damage was done to her liver, but they did say it was quite awhile ago and luckily we caught it before it had moved into cirrhosis of the liver.  Once we get another base line liver panel, we will start treating her with medications.  Hopefully she responds well and handles the medications.

I have started scanning all our 35 mm negatives and am creating albums of all the pictures in Photos on the computer.  My goal is to get all the paper photos and negatives digitized.  It's been lots of fun looking at all the old photos - so many memories.  Here's a picture of Craig and I from about 35 years ago and our first two Shelties.

We left Chehalis on Sept 20 and headed to Eugene.  We had a couple of things to be checked on the motorhome so we decided to leave the coach with them and headed to Pacific City, renting a cabin at our membership park for the week.  While in Pacific City, nephew Mat and his two boys came and spent Saturday and Sunday with us.  It was a little tight in the cabin as it was a two room cabin, one main area to include sleeping quarters and kitchen and a bathroom but we had a great time on the beach, played mini-golf and pickle ball and the boys went swimming with Uncle Craig.

We also spent one day doing some wine tasting in Dundee, OR and also visited my mother's remaining brother and his wife as well as an uncle's wife in Newburg.  Aunt Fern just turned 90 in July.

While in Pacific City, we spent the day in Canon Beach and when we found a wine bar, Craig was watching the dogs and this lady asked if she could watch so both of us could be inside.  She really enjoyed sitting with the dogs while all of her friends were also tasting.

Once we got back to Eugene where we had WiFi and cell phone service we started out mapping our trip south.  We will leave today, Oct. 1, and head south to the Thousand Trails park near Sun River.  From there we will head south through Reno and will be spending the month of November in Pahrump.  We also have reservations for the month of January in Yuma, AZ.