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One of the (few) things that has annoyed me about our trailer is that there is no nightstand on my side of the bed. So, some five years later I have remedied that shortcoming. I knitted this last fall, but only put it to use last weekend when we pulled the trailer out of its winter respite.

Pockets for cellphone, glasses, current reading material, and even holds earrings and other personal decor. And I had yarn in my stash that coordinated well with the blue-and-beige trailer decor.

Proof that sometimes you don’t need a pattern to accomplish something. Just hold it in your mind’s eye and do it.

I’m hoping to start taking the trailer on our winter vacation as well.

For a few it was the best of times, for many the worst of times.  For us it was neither and  both.  Another year older, some goals were accomplished, some still works-in-progress.

Fast forward:

January

The passing of grand old lady Julie.

Rose City Classic – Pilot WD for 3 majors, Molly earns her first major.

Pilot

February

Bought Element in preparation for road trip, headed south at end of month to find summer.

March

Road trip to the Southwest

April

Cardigan Nationals in Topeka, which was also my longest solo road-trip.  The highlight of Alice’s show career.

May

Huxley’s first litter is born.
New pump in well

June

Put sheep in freezer.
Pilot’s first litter is born.
Day trip to Oregon coast

July

Annual dog-show camping trip at Bandon
Pilot group III

August

Huxley’s son Rio comes for a couple of weeks
Pilot comes for an extended visit
Phoebe flies to Albuquerque
Day trip to Crater Lake

September

Mandy falls off horse and breaks herself
The end of Good Ol’ Kacy
Kayla is lost and then found
Holmes and Watson are born
Camping trip to and from Richland supported entry

October

Alice eats Bad Things
Molly and Pilot turn two

November

Thanksgiving trip to California and to Napa Valley

December

Winter comes again, and even colder than normal

We have found a new half-way spot between here and Tri-Cities to camp. We stayed at Cove Palisades State Park on our way up on Thursday and then back last night. I regret that we had so little time camping.
The park is situated on Lake Billy Chinook, a reservoir at the confluence of the Crooked River and the Deschutes.

Thursday night we spent down at the bottom of the canyon, in the Deschutes campground. It is the end of the season and the campground was nearly empty.

This is the view at sunset behind our campsite.

No cell phone reception.  No internet.  Lots of quiet and desert air.

We will be back.

We got a slow start yesterday, with Tom spending several hours doing phone support for a customer who shall remain unnamed. When your computer doesn’t come on, look for the obvious first. Like that the on/off button is a little cockeyed and not making contact with the true switch below it. Do not take the computer over to a work bench and plug it in and see that it still does not have power, not noticing that the breaker is turned off and nothing has power on that outlet. Then especially do not take it apart and remove the battery from the motherboard to check its voltage. Removing the battery from the motherboard will make your computer lose its bios settings and become really stupid.

We lost another 15 minutes when the little switch did not make the trailer lower onto the ball on the hitch. That was just a corroded connection that sandpaper took care of. Both truck and trailer batteries were replaced last week as both were dead.

Then we spent another half-hour stopped along the road helping a second customer with a stuck print-spooler file (actually it turned out to be the print-server).

Then we spent another half-hour in Remote (yes, that’s the real name of the “town”) fixing this:

But looking on the bright side, the loud startling bang happened right in front of an RV resort.

Which is for sale if anybody is interested. Around 6 acres, mobile home and rv spots, river frontage, $470k. The owners moved back to Florida (too cold in Oregon!) and the managers are very nice and helpful people.

We didn’t make it into Bandon in time to get dinner at the blue shack, so we tried out Tony’s Crab Shack. Some jerk in a big truck deliberately ran over one of the well-fed seagulls who was trying to cross the road as foot-traffic.

Suddenly the sky was filled with the deceased bird’s family. I didn’t pull out my camera quite in time so they were starting to disperse.

And this morning . . . the coffee pot wouldn’t come on! Fortunately Louise and Gary had a pot.

Going to the beach shortly.  With any luck, there won’t be a tsunami warning.

No major (count 3-7-1-0 and 3-7-0-0) but it’s about more than the dog show anyway, right?  Mirrhi needs 2 singles; maybe she’ll finish!

Bullards Beach Thursday 7/2/09 to Monday 7/6/09 we have reserved Campsites C19 through C26 except C25 which is a yurt. Click here for a pdf campground map. The even numbers are 50′-51′  long trailer spots, the odd numbers are tent spaces on the inside of the loop. There is lots of tent room and the spaces open onto each other.

C20

C22

C24

C26 taken from C24 as it was occupied

C23

C21

C19

We’ll take C22 as it has the most extra room for gathering.  You can see from this picture taken from the back of the site that it’s really deep.  And for those who aren’t coming: aw, I’m sorry.  Try for next year!