Our New Oregon Home!

Well, we are here!  I hope people can comment now, but if you can't, I will still keep posting and I will start visiting you all again.  We just got our internet hooked up, but have been in the house three days now.  The first two and a half days we were like pioneers....no tv, no internet, dark and quiet after 5:30pm....

Our trip was good...God kept the roads clear and the sky bright blue.  We made it fine after a flat tire on our first night on the road. 

Southeast Oregon

We arrived at our daughter and son-in-law's house in Bend where we immediately got stuck  (twice with the U-Haul and four times with the car so far!.....we need snow tires!) Being with them again is such a joy!  In time for our daughter's birthday, then our grandson's and then Christmas.  LOVE Bend, and loved every minute with the kids....

We didn't close on the house until December 23rd!  What an amazing Christmas gift, though.  It was a long, "painful" process, but it was done, at last!  Still, our house is out in the country, and the road leading to our road was icy the first time we came out with our realtor to see it, and as you can see, someone was being pulled out as we arrived!

It's beautiful here on Crooked River Ranch, and there are deer all over!  Going to connect with Eileen's Saturday's Critters!

Lots of juniper here.

A view from our deck!

At our nextdoor neighbor's house.

More to come soon!

Comments Disabled!!!!

For some reason my comments are not working, so if you saw my Nov 22 post and my post this weekend, and tried to comment you apparently weren't able to!  I'm not sure what is going on.  I went into Settings and tried to fix it.  I'm pretty annoyed right now!  So, I will keep posting because I want to share my move with all of you, and some gorgeous snow shots from Oregon, and my new house, and I just won't expect to get any comments.  But I hope you will be looking at my posts anyway, and maybe at some point this will fix itself, or someone will tell me what's wrong and help me out.  Either way, I'll be posting for those who follow me faithfully, comments or not, and I will try to get on your blogs and comment on your posts as soon as we are in the house and things are back to normal....Have an awesome and very blessed Christmas!

A Little Art & an Update

I am going to post this on a site Mom has been posting on lately to share a charcoal drawing I did in 2008.  To see more or to join in click on  Sunday Sketches.  Also joining Tanya's Willy Nilly Friday Five though I will be actually short of five things. 

1. While I was packing I came across some of my old artwork.  I am actually looking forward to getting back into painting after we get settled.  I thought I would share this charcoal drawing of pears.

2.  Also, to give everyone an update, we are about to leave our home in Tucson and head to Oregon!  The men will be here Monday to pack up the truck.  We will be heading north  the next morning.  Last week, even though it was in the 60s/70s (basically normal winter temps for Tucson) I heard the ice cream truck music...the ICE CREAM truck! :-)  Where we are going, it's in the teens and twenties.....brrrrr!  But, we are ready!  The big adventure of our later lives is about to begin!  Below is a photo our daughter took while sitting outside our grandson's school waiting to pick him up last week.  Doesn't it look like a Christmas card!? Pray for our safe travels!  I'll be in touch as often as I can!

3.  I made my first etsy sale!  I couldn't believe it!  Opened up my email this morning and there was a message that I have sold two Bee Ornaments!  I am so happy this didn't happen two or three days from now, because I had considered packing the box of Bee things and have actually already packed the other items (though I could find them easily now if I had sold one of those) because we would be on the road!!!!  Much easier to get this sale now.  If anyone does order something while we are on the road, guess the mailing can wait till we get there.  Yikes!  Timing! :-)

 

4.  Daughter's photo