On this date last year we crossed the border on our way south to Arizona. Today we had a reality check!
Winter is fast approaching so yesterday we made the move
into our friend Bev’s apartment here in Penticton. We are just a couple corners away from Karen’s
and looking out the window I can see her big trees. I think we’ll actually be able to see the
motor home from our window when we park it along her driveway.
Our motor home made no claims to be warm in the winter and
since we can’t go to Arizona this year, we had to move inside. So nice to have such great friends! We will have to go soon and dump the tanks
for the last time then figure out how to winterize the motor home. This will be our eleventh year with the motorhome and we’ve never had to winterize it.
It was pretty amazing how much stuff we removed from the
motor home that we deemed necessary to have in the apartment. I made quite a few trips with the car and not
quite done yet. I managed to wrestle my
big printer down from its home in the TV cabinet in the motorhome but I will
need some help to get it out the door. Not
only is it heavy, it’s large and awkward to get through the narrow door and
down the steps. It can’t stay in the
motorhome and get frozen either.
Our house plans are progressing at a snail’s pace. The plan gets sent back to the drafts person
and takes two weeks to come back. Then all
the specified changes weren’t made so back it goes again. Grrr!
I think we are pretty close to giving the go sign if they could get the
changes made.
This has been a long dry spell for this blog. We’re in the season that’s in between for
photography so I haven’t been taking any.
The past few days the fall colour is coming on nicely. We continue to wait on house progress which
is proving to be frustrating. The house
can’t get in the que to be built until the plan has been finalized. It is nearly two weeks since the last plan
revision and we are still waiting to see the next version.
Aileen and I took the RZR for a ride in the mountains this
past Monday. We had a great ride
following my nose and we managed to end up at the Keremeos viewpoint I went to
in July with Al and Ernie. I was able to
follow the same route home that we did in July.
Today, our 53rd anniversary, we took the RZR and
went for a ride up the old KVR Railway trail west of Summerland. ATVs are permitted along this section. We saw two cyclists and one other ATV so we
enjoyed the solitude. It was a gorgeous
fall day!
We think we have moved most of our possessions from our Salmon
Arm storage to our container here. We
may bring a few more things but nothing pressing. The weather forecast is predicting much
cooler temperatures starting this weekend.
We will soon have to think about moving in to warmer quarters. More on that in future blogs.
