Here it is, the 31st of December, the last day of 2008. As I look back, it doesn't seem that long ago that it was 2007. It is the first year that I could really feel that we were retired -- the first year was just too busy getting the house emptied and sold and moving into the RV.
It was very windy during the night last night with intermittent rain squalls. Today is overcast and we continue to have episodes of rain. It continues to amaze me how quickly the ground absorbs water here -- what would be a mass of mud back home in eastern Washington is barely wet looking here. It is very similar to what we observed in Louisiana where it would rain two inches in an hour or two, then just disappear. Except for the humidity of course! Oregon has lots of ponds and streams, they act like the every 1/4 mile drainage dishes we saw in Port Sulphur.
Since we are still planning to leave on the 2nd, today has got to be a cleaning, putting stuff away, organizing day. I can clean the whole RV thoroughly in just a couple of hours (compared to a couple of days for the house), but I don't like it any better! I've started putting Christmas decorations away back in their storage box that goes in Auntie Violet's basement (the bins in the lower part of the coach). We've also got to find a space for all the gifts that were in our stockings.
I think we'll probably watch the New Year in quietly tonight. Dawn and Todd and the grandkids will be back from the oceanside sometime tomorrow. Dawn and I planned barbecued ribs for dinner, but that is as far as we've gotten.
In the meantime, here's wishing everyone a VERY BLESSED NEW YEAR!
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