Monday, April 20, 2015
Shortly after I finished
this post, we got word that my mother had passed away in her sleep. She had been in a nursing home since October. We’ll be flying to New Bern for her funeral.
We are back in Morgan Hill,
south of San Jose, California. We had a
great two weeks back in Indiana, seeing friends and doctors and celebrating
Easter with our local family. This year
we got to see a second generation of kids hunt Easter eggs in our yard. Here’s the crew from 23 years ago:
The youngest in that
picture, Jeremy, got to hide the eggs this year for the new generation.
And here’s the crew from
this year:
Good food, good friends,
good fun.
We got back to Morgan Hill
on Tuesday. Obi was happy to see us and
the trailer was as we left it.
But the best news of that
day was from Natasha. She was sworn in
as a US Citizen!
We are so proud of her! Mike was able to go with her to the ceremony;
I wish we could have been there, but we can’t do everything.
Originally, we were going to
see Wes on Saturday and leave on Sunday, but then we got started on a project
that kind of kept expanding.
We had been told to take
measures to darken our bedroom for Alaska, as we will have 20 hours of daylight
when we are there. I had bought some
blackout liner to make drapes, but then we had a thought. Nightstands are lacking in most trailers and we
had rigged up something in the windows on either side of the bed to hold
Kleenex, books, etc. and mounted cup holders for drinks. We had tossed around changing that, along
with the drapes and valances. We also
weren’t terribly fond of the head board. Here’s a picture of what we were dealing with:
And here’s what we have now:
The panels over the windows
are removable, but since we haven’t used them in the year and a half we’ve had
the trailer, they won’t be removed often.
We still need to attach cup
holders and organizers, but it will be much nicer than before. Staying here in Morgan Hill meant we were
close to Home Depot and Ace Hardware for the supplies we needed. The wood is actually prefinished end panels
and cabinet fillers from an oak cabinet line Home Depot has. The finish is close to what is already in the
trailer.
As soon as we finish this
project, we need to head north. We want
to be in Bellingham by May 5th or 6th and then it will be
on to Alaska!
Deb
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