What a gorgeous week we've had! Frosty mornings and clear skies made for beautiful pictures like these ..

 

Everything was covered with a thin layer of crunchy ice ... so pretty!

                                                                                    

                                                                 This was why ..  26F, brrrrr!                                           

          

Good news for our moving plans though!
It meant that the ground had a chance to dry out some and by Tuesday we decided to take the plunge and move the RV early in the morning (8am) when the soil was crusty and hard and fairly dry ...

And we did it! Not without a few hick-ups but we made it!

The first turn towards the path going down was a little tight and James had to swing real wide and make several attempts but he got it done.
Everything went smooth the rest of the way down and he got the RV pretty much in place on the first try but when we tried to make a small adjustment, as in moving it over a couple of feet ... he got stuck!

Fortunately our landlord was on stand-by to pull him out, which went very easy and after a little back and forth they got it parked in it's final 'resting place'.

And voila .. done! Isn't it a beautiful site?

  
 

We spent the rest of the day hooking everything up; electric, water, TV, Internet and James brought the big propane tank over ...

We were so busy that I forgot to take any pictures but here are a few of the end result:

 

We even installed the skirt under the front, laid down the pallets and mat for the porch and brought the awnings out so we have a nice dry place to come into the RV again.

 


                                                 

This is the view from the inside out. They're not the best pictures but you get the idea ..

                                                   

                                                   

We have great views from all windows, the ones on the side look out onto the pond and the tree-line of the little forest on the right, and the windows in the back look out all the way towards the distant mountain range.
We still have a few things to install and more stuff to bring over from the barn where we stored it for the time being when we arrived here but we're functioning and we're warm and dry. 

Time for some R&R!
Well .. sort of ... James got two new orders while we were busy with the move so we took a day of from organizing, connecting and adjusting and spent some time driving through the countryside to measure and photograph several properties.
It's work, but it's also rather fun to see new areas and have a look-see in different houses.

We had lunch at the 'Hitchpost', a bar/cafe somewhere in the countryside around Keizer where this sign greets you at the entrance:

    

                           

We fit right in .. look .. there's a redneck right now! 😁

                                                           

Despite all that, the food was excellent. We split a Tri-tip French Dip sandwich with curly fries and a Prickly-pear cider. Yumm!

Talking about food, it smells really wonderful here at the moment .. I just took this Blueberry pie out of the oven!
Following a new recipe, I used both regular flour as well as cornflour with the berries to avoid a 'soupy' pie, and baked it 10 minutes longer than usual.

It looks like that paid of, no visible running juices ..
They also advice to let it cool down for 4 hours on the kitchen counter and than overnight in the fridge to let the cornflour set even better.
We'll see .. the hardest part is not to dig into it right now!

I guess that's it for this week, it was a busy one and we're rather exhausted, but the move is behind us and we can finish setting up without being on a time-line and without being anxious about getting stuck or not being able to get the RV in it's place.

 Peace out!