Our First Week in Ory-Gun

Wow!  The time has just flown by as we look back and realize that we rolled in to Seth Finney's place here in Molalla, just a bit more than a week ago.  It has been a busy, but not frantic week, with some good visits with family and some time to relax to ourselves as well.

Soon after getting to Molalla, we went out to celebrate Pamela's nephew Skyler's twenty-third birthday at a restaurant in Oregon City.  We also had a chance last week to go to the movies and see "Hugo", which was a very good holiday type film.

We also just returned from the Spirit Mountain Casino in Grand Rhond, Oregon to celebrate Skyler's wife Britnii's 21st birthday with family.  We didn't really do any gambling, but it was good to celebrate with Pamela's family and visit some place we have only driven by on the way to the Oregon Coast.

We are settled in here in Molalla with free WiFi internet, 30 amp electric service, fresh water (with heat tape to keep it from freezing), and a grey water drain field.  We are looking into getting a larger propane tank so that Neil doesn't have to refill the seven gallon propane tanks quite so often.  We don't know if we can rent a 100 pound tank and have it filled here at the campsite or not, but that is what we are looking into.  The other thing is a large blackwater holding tank that will be pumped every four to six weeks we figure, since it only will be blackwater and not grey water.

We are very snug here in the Fiver with the DirecTV satellite set up and working well, and plenty of other things to keep us busy.  Neil is going to have some followup dental surgery to what he had done a year ago at the end of December, and we have several friends to reconnect with around Christmas.

We are still hoping to close on the house at the end of the month, but there seems to be a never ending flow of paperwork being required by the lender on the buyer's end.

Neil is using his Christmas present to type this Blog--he splurged at Fry's Electronics on the way home from the casino (Seth Finney was of no help in slowing down the purchase, says Pamela!)--and bought a 17-inch HP Pavilion dv7 "Entertainment Laptop".  So far, it has not been all that "entertaining" to download and install all of the software that he is used to, but it is a nice, fast laptop that will be great for viewing movies as well as the other less entertaining things.

So right now, we have four laptops in the Fiver, two iPhones, a Canon printer/scanner/copier, DirecTV our big TV and a few other miscellaneous items to keep us fully "entertained".  Neil plans to get the older laptop that he inherited from Pamela ready to donate to someone, but will probably keep the very small HP netbook laptop for travelling.

Neil's New Laptop

We are enjoying the new feeling of living in Oregon, and have even rented a mail box to get mail until we buy a house and have mail delivered there.  We decided to rent a small PO Box here in Molalla, so our current mailing address is PO Box 435, Molalla, OR  97038.  We will be trying to keep the Blog updated but probably not on a daily basis unless things get a lot more interesting than they currently are.  We hope that everyone reading this has a safe and enjoyable holiday season--that is what we plan to do!

Thanks for visiting, 

Neil and Pamela