What was I saying about the beautiful weather? Today has been cool, cloudy, and rainy. So goes fall in the Northwest.

The motor home spent the night at Gilchrist Chevrolet last night while they tried to figure out a problem with the dash display - ordered a new one. The main reason for the trip to Gilchrist was to get the shocks replaced which is a concession by Workhorse for any chassis that was built prior to 4/04. Ken hasn't been able to test it at 65 miles an hour on the freeway, but he said there was a world of difference in the handling on the way home in traffic. I don't know what it came with, but now it has Monroes on the front.

As most of you know, I am addicted to RV.net which is an online forum for all things Rving. The moderator from Spokane Valley has suggested a little rally in October in eastern Washington. So I have given my input and we will see what comes together. We won't be available until the 2nd week end so we will see what the dates are.

Ken has been pouring over old slides to see if he can find any from the days in the 60's when we were with the folks we are going to see next week at the reunion. The few that he has found show all of us as being slim, the guys have crew cuts and we all have dark hair and few if any are wearing glasses!!

We stopped at Costco today to pick up a printer cartridge so we cruised the food aisles for the demo tables to supply us with lunch. I took note of all the Christmas displays. In fact, I think every store I have entered in the past week has had the full gamut of Christmas stuff already. Isn't this just a bit early?

We received the October issue of Sunset magazine today, and there is not even a nod to Octoberfest (nor was there in the September issue), so I igonored their ignoring and prepared sauerkraut and bratwurst for dinner tonight! Last year at this time we were in the land of Octoberfest enjoying all that Germany has to offer along with Brian and Sheila and the Schulers.

Colleen has finished her 2 weeks in the office at Fuller Seminary in Colorado Springs, and is now in Pasadena for a leadership conference and then will be home on Sunday........for about 2 weeks before she leaves for New Zealand to attend a friend's wedding and then on to Australia to see Bassim and meet his family.

Ciao