Sorry I have been gone so long.

I am not back yet but thought I should explain what is happening.

We were told Paul got a job in San Diego so we are moving.

We need to get rid of a lot of stuff so many yard sales.

Because I am learning to spin someone gave me an old dirty greasy fleece that was in her barn for 4 years. So I needed to clean it of all the dirt and wash it.

This was exciting as I really want to learn this process.

My Doctor decided to try a new blood pressure medication on me and I had a very bad reaction from it and I swelled up and my legs were so bad it was hard to walk.

During my time to watch the yard sale I worked on my fleece getting no telling what kind of germs on my hands from it and the boxes and things I went through to put out in the yard sale.

I scratched my legs with these dirty hands not thinking any thing of it. Well I got a really bad infection in my legs from my ankles to knees. I went to the doctor several time with no improvement finally Willona took me to the hospital, they took real good care of me and got the infection down a lot. At home I have to spend most of my time in bed with my feet up to keep the swelling down.

So I am not much help in cleaning and packing or much else.

What lengths I go to, to get out of work.

I am on a good blood pressure medication now so hopefully the swelling will go down soon and the infection will clear up.

I have not done much lately as my right hand keeps going to sleep. The Doctor said it would take 14 days before the shot starts working on the pain mean while the numbing shot is keeping me from over working it.

I had to go to town to do some errands. Here are some photo's of our big town. This is one block of the 4 blocks of town.

It is so strange usually we have snow by now today it was 50% not very cold at all.

This is the senior center and senior thrift store.

If you look real hard you can see Jonah on his bike, he is helping his friend deliver news papers. I just happen to be taking photo's when he road up.


This is the General Store were we buy almost everything until we go to The Dalles or Yakima.


Here is an old gas pump in front of the General store.

Down the road is the grocery store.

I had to go to The Dalles for a shot in my wrist for carpal tunnel

took some photos on the way.

Windmills on the Oregon side of the Columbia River
What it looks like on the Washington side of the Columbia River

The Columbia River with Mount Hood in the back ground


Another of the Columbia River


This is a good one of the Columbia River Gorge


Another one of the Columbia river with Mount Hood

October 22, 2008 I had three nerves burned through in my back today. I was so scarred because the shots hurts so bad last time. But it was not so bad. It hurt but not as bad as the shots. They gave me an IV with pain medication and relaxation in it so that helped. I came out of it with a very bad headache but my back did not hurt. They gave me pain pills but I only need a few so that was good.