New Years Greetings

We have had a good couple of weeks of the New Year, with some cool weather, but no real snow on the ground, and little freezing temperatures.  We got the New Years newsletter out, so if you did not get one in the mail or via e-mail, please click the link below to get a PDF version, and if that does not work, please contact us.  

click here :  HagaFinn's 2013 New Year's Newsletter

We had a quiet New Years Eve and day here at home and stayed away from the crazy traffic.  Pamela had a Creative Memories event at the Oregon Garden in Silverton during the first weekend of the year, and we had a good dinner there after Neil dropped Pamela off for the event.  Neil returned home to deal with a furnace problem and to fight off a 24 hour stomach bug.  If we were on a cruise, we would have called it the "cruise flu", but at least it did not last long.

Pamela had a very successful Creative Memories event where she taught a class and had lots of interest in the book she has written about how to get more out of the software and some of her design tips.  She is going to update it and reprint it to meet the demand from the event in Silverton, and may teach at future workshops as well.

This week, Neil got the RV off the blocks and drove it to the Oregon DEQ station to get it inspected because the DMV license renewal paperwork said that it was required.  He drove into Clackamas to find out that because the vehicle is a heavy duty diesel, it is exempt!  Well at least he got the RV warmed up and running in the middle of the winter.  It is plugged back in and we plan to get the cover put over it this weekend.

Pamela has been busy working on some more of here Creative Memories books, and has documented our first year in Oregon, as well as our trips to England and Scotland.  It is fun to look back on these trips and to look back on what has been a fast year.  Neil has been working on getting the garage and shop sorted out and getting rid of some more "stuff".  

We are also updating our DirecTV DVR to the new Genie version.  It has twice as big of storage (1 Terabytes), and will allow you to record five things at one time.  Not that we ever think we will need that, but there have been times when we want to record two and watch a third.  The new Genie has arrived, and Neil will be needing to program it with all of the programs that we like to watch.  It is good to keep busy in retirement, eh?

This weekend, we might get a visit from our friends from Juneau, Jim and Judy as they bring their RV down on the ferry on their way to Arizona to get warm!  We will also celebrate Neil's birthday over the weekend.

We hope that you are all doing well on your New Year's Resolutions, and if not, at least having a good year so far.  We look forward to hearing from you or seeing you in 2013.

Thanks for visiting,

Neil and Pamela