Wow!! Almost one year since we started this

Hi everyone! I was just looking back on the history of our blog tonight, and enjoying all the great memories of our trip from last winter, and I realized that next Sunday, we'll be commemorating one year since the start of this blog! Wow...we can't believe how quickly time has gone by.

Speaking of which, I can hardly believe it's been a month already since the last time I posted to the blog. That's easily explained, actually. I spent the second half of September and the first two weeks of October planning and executing a national championship race for my model hydroplane racing club. If I may say so myself, it was a huge success, and I think everyone really had a great time.

We finally had to bring ourselves to cancel our reservations at Crazy Horse Campgrounds in Lake Havasu. Before we left Havasu last year, we made reservations for a couple of different nice spaces in the great campground we stayed in last February. That was when we were still thinking we'd be doing the RV thing on at least a mostly full-time basis. Even when we decided to stay home, get jobs, buy a business and sell the RV, we still dragged our feet about cancelling the reservations at Havasu, because we liked it there so much -- and thought there might be a chance that we'd change our minds again and go back to Lake Havasu for the entire winter, starting in November. But alas, we decided to stay home, and not go back to Havasu. It was an easier decision than we thought it would be.

We've done some good stuff by staying home. Of course, there's my job at Koopman Ostbo, which I love, we've gone to two Cougar football games together this year, and several weekend trips for my boat racing stuff...and then there's the new business we've bought. Dawn's going to run the little video/coffee place in Estacada that we were looking at a couple of months ago, and decided against. Well, it's still been on our minds ever since, and after looking at other options, we decided this was the best opportunity. The financing is done, and the paperwork is in progress, as well as all the licensing, permitting, etc. I'll let Dawn tell you guys all about everything she's got planned for it, but it's pretty exciting, really.

Last weekend, our friend Mick and I went over to Pullman (my second trip over there in three days) to see the Cougars play Oregon, which was ranked #16 in the nation at the time. Long story short, the Cougs crushed the Ducks, and now we're just one win from becoming eligible for a bowl game, for the first time since 2003. It was a fun trip, and we came home to a gorgeous day, and I was able to get a lot of stuff done around here, especially outside, that had really needed to get done for a long time.

This week has been crazy busy at work, but it's all good because its fun.

That's about it for now. I'm going to go look at my recent pictures now and see if there's anything worthy of posting.