Remembering

It was one year ago today that Gary Ousey's brother passed away after having been diagnosed with brain cancer within the month! We were in Yuma at the time, Gary had already flown to Winnepeg earlier in the week, and we took Carolyn to Phoenix on the 17th for her flight out. It was a very sad time for them. Dennis widow, Catherine, has continued with blogging and sharing some of her emotions, the good and the difficult. She is presently visiting their daughter in Vancouver and plans to move there permanently next summer.

We had a very enjoyable evening with the Bakers last Monday night with much of the conversation centered around the RV life. They took their RV to Orlando and back last summer and other than some tire and battery problems they had a great trip. We keep saying we are going to get together and go somewhere, but so far we haven't.

The painting, curtain hanging, Christmas decorating, and general organizing will be finished by tomorrow night. For those of you who live in the Lakewood/Tacoma area, I suggest you go to Rodda Paints on South 84th. Good product, reasonable price, and excellent customer service. We discovered today that they had mixed two gallons of satin instead of flat as I had asked (and the receipt verified), and they apologized, replaced the paint and refused to charge me for the two new paint pads I wanted to purchase. A good business from all that I can tell.

We weathered the massive wind storm with no problems. Steilacoom seems to be quite sheltered from storms, and we especially so. We had a few branches down, and were without power for about 15 hours, but that was it. The only concern was no power to run the sump pump which had been constantly running in the basement because of all the heavy rain associated with the storm. So Ken fired up the generator in the motor home and hooked up the sump pump! Problem solved. Our friends in Gig Harbor, and Curt and Cinda in Bellevue are still without power and are being told it could still be days before it is restored.

Six more sleeps and the Keith and Janet and the girls will be here. And probably fewer than that for Colleen. The moving company picked up her household goods today, and she is leaving Phoenix after church tomorrow. She is staying in Pasadena tomorrow night and then will head north fromt there. She should be here Wednesday or Thursday.

I mailed about eight Christmas cards this year. Since I blog and keep in touch by email, I have limited my list to those whom I don't have contact with during the year. So if you are reading, this you won't be getting a Christmas card! Ciao.