It’s December

It’s our 3rd December in Oregon.  Sometimes it feels like we’ve been here longer and other times it seems like we just moved here a few weeks ago.  That being said, I feel we’re definitely growing some roots now.  I really like where we live and the social circle, while small is slowly growing. We’ve…

Halloween 2015

I seldom write about work here.   Mostly because it’s “just a job”, granted it’s a good job and I get to deal with stuff that I find interesting….for those of you not interested in government finance functions, I’ll just stop there. I’ve been involved in government accounting now for over 15 years and I’m pretty…

My Dog is a Serial Killer

We got Codi from Indigo Pet Rescue.  We kind of learned after the fact that they specialized in “difficult to place pets”.  For example, one of them had alopecia, some of them may have other social or behavioral problems. Well, Mia and I finally think we figured out what Codi’s “issue” is……he’s a murderer, a…

I Could Get Used to This

We’re on day one of our vacation and some friends of ours were gracious enough to let us stay at their lake house on Northwood Lake.  Severe storms in the northeast delayed our departure from the northwest by about 90 minutes.  This meant that we had a quick reminder to the quiet NH way of…

Computer troubles

So our home PC pooped the bed this past weekend.  Finding a replacement was easy, but reinstalling and getting backup files off the external hard drive has been a huge P.I.T.A over the past two days. Finally got the important stuff up and running and should be getting back to normal operation soon. I did…

100 Years

I had to make an unexpected visit back to NH on Friday of last week.  My Grampa Palmer passed away after a short illness.  Grampa just recently turned 100 on July 26th. It’s amazing to me what my grandfather got to see in his life.  From 1914 to 2014 he has seen some of the…