Anne-Marie and I have gone a long time since our last haircut, I believe that its been since the last time we were in Hood River in May. Anne-Marie called Rita in Parkdale, and asked if there was time today or tomorrow for us to drop in, and our choices were Thursday or Friday at 2:30, and we chose the Thursday time. The present time was just barely noon, so we went to lunch at our favorite restaurant in town, The Crazy Pepper Cantina Restaurant, before heading south to Parkdale.
When we arrived at Rita’s in Parkdale, she was waiting in a empty shop, one customer got done early, and one had cancelled, and we had her to ourselves. We hadn’t been through town for nearly six months, and we spent the first 45 minutes visiting and catching up on the local news around the neighborhood. We spent about an hour and half in her shop, all three of us sitting and visiting as if it was her front room. We enjoyed the small community life when we lived there, but we have also enjoyed the traveling life, and exploring all of the other parts of the US, it’s nice to catch-up on the local news.
We were driving back to the trailer, after leaving Rita’s, and I decided to drive down the road where our old neighbor Larry, now lives, and he was out in front of the house. I hadn't visited with Larry since we got on the road, so we stopped in. Larry and Louisa had been long time neighbors, and our daughter Sara is still friends with Louisa’s daughter Anna-Maria. The two girls have been visiting in the New York city area. Anne-Marie and Louisa went to the living room, and Larry and I at the kitchen table, and we all visited and caught up with where we have been and what we have seen during our travels. It seems that the haircut took the entire afternoon, till six in the evening, when we got home to the trailer.
The storage unit that we have for our stuff is in Odell Oregon, and the cost of the unit will sometime in the future, exceed the value of our stuff. This is true for any storage unit that holds stuff, there is the day that if you had just gave it away, a breakeven point would be reached, and from thereafter, a savings would be had. In a few years, we will need to make a decision on the unit, move the stuff, or dispose of it. The easiest solution for us would be if one of our Sons, Matthew or Andrew, would have a shop to use the tools, but neither one has a shop yet, I didn’t have a shop for 25 years at our old house either. For now we will keep our stuff where it is, and visit it once or twice a year.
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