Heavy rain and wind that slammed into Oregon and Southwest Washington caused a lot of damage and flooding in the Willamette Valley this week.
Some Portland-area roads flooded because of the Yamhill and Hood Rivers overflowing which even caused landslides in some hilly neighborhoods.

At the Park we found out where the low spots were; Sadie and I had to wade through some overnight developed lakes on our walks

During one of the storms one of the clamps we use to keep our awning from flapping broke and one of the Velcro straps got ripped off.

The wind gusts are pretty bad at times but the awning is kept firmly in place so far by the 2 pull straps we attached to the corners which are secured to the ground by heavy duty screw anchors. I know it’s a little risky but I do like it to have a dry ‘porch’ in front of the RV.

Saturday brought us once again to Doug for brunch. This time to celebrate Sarah’s and Bethany’s Birthdays which are both coming up this week.
As usual the food was delicious, leave it to the Hess’s to bring it on big time, and the girls had requested Blueberry Buckle to be the ‘birthday-cake’ afterwards.

We were all pretty much stuffed in the end!

                        

For Sunday we had planned a perfect rainy-day activity.

James is looking into doing some part-time work as a computer repair ‘geek’ so we had to move some stuff around in the RV to make room for him to set up ‘shop’.
We spent the whole day going through several of our cabinets to throw out things we had not touched in a year, scan more papers and throw them away afterwards and we also changed my work area into James’s and his into mine to give him a little more storage space that will put things behind doors and out of sight.

James is looking forward to a nice and dry ‘inside’ job after weeks of Oregon rain and mud.

Since practically everybody has a computer these days and almost everybody seems to run into problems with them on a regular base this seems to be a job with a future!
A local repair guy has agreed to take him under his wing for a while to ‘show him the ropes’ and advise him on what to get and what to read and study.
It looks like you don’t need too much equipment to do the basic repairs so it all will fit in the RV (with some pushing and shoving) and we can probably find clients wherever we go.

We’ll see how it will work out!



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