River Rim, Terrebonne, OR

Wednesday-Saturday, July 15-18, 2015

For the next few days it is going to be laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping and projects.  Sometimes days to just "be" are wonderful.

About 8:30 pm one evening we decided to walk a few holes of the Crooked River Ranch Golf Course for exercise.

From one of the holes we could look up and see this house.  What a view they have!

We saw this critter on our walk.  When we got back to the RV park we learned that it is a rock chuck.  Farmers around here consider them rodents to be shot.  

We also saw several cottontail bunnies.

Here is our 07/15/15 sunset picture.  Interesting cloud formations!

The next evening we were invited to a dinner for the Volunteer Christian Builders working at the Highland Baptist Church.  We are working with them.  The church members put together this dinner.  It was held in a members barn, which was exceptionally clean.  Apparently they hold parties here sometimes.  I took a picture with my phone but when I put it into this post it was blurry so I'm leaving it out.

On our way home, the GPS took us a different route.  We came upon this overlook and stopped to take pictures.

Here we are looking eastward up the canyon towards Crooked River Ranch.  

This is looking straight across the gorge from the lookout.  See the house on the ledge?  And the river is still another 110 feet below, in the gorge.

This is looking westward down the canyon.  The farm looks like a picture from long ago.

It is almost sunset time, so we decided to wait here at the overlook to watch the sunset.

This was just minutes before the sun went below the horizon.  Don't the clouds look like a huge angel with wings? 

Tic got this cool picture just seconds before the sun went below the horizon.  Gorgeous!

The next day Tic decided he wanted to build a 12 element yagi cellular directional antenna.  This is the driven element.

Now Tic has attached the base.

Here is the finished product.  Our service is good here, so we cannot test it yet.  We sometimes are parked in an area where our hotspot for Internet access is weak.  Australians live vast distances apart and this design came from there.  They use the same frequency.  So the next time our signal is weak, we can give this a try.

Later in the evening this unique camper van pulled in.
 

It even has license plates from Europe.  We were not sure which country.

Look at those driving lights!

The next morning we met the couple.  They are from Germany and, yes, shipped the van to the US. We visited with them for probably 2+ hours.  We learned that they converted this van themselves.  She designed it and he built it.  We got to tour the inside.  The efficient use of space was incredible.  We were both very impressed.

This is the precious couple we got the pleasure of meeting.  They will finish their tour and then ship their van back to Europe.

We will be moving to Redmond tomorrow.  Volunteer Christian Builders are here helping in the expansion of the Highland Baptist Church facilities.  We will be there for a week ourselves to assist in however we can.  Blog updates will pick up again after that.