Where's summer?

As soon as we arrived in Bend we started looking for a vehicle to drive on BLM land since there are thousands of acres adjacent to Sundance. We traveled to Redmond, La Pine, Tumalo and Sunriver all to no avail. We found people lie. So we decided we didn't need a vehicle after all and if God wanted us to have one He would have to drop it in our lap. Well He did! Two days after saying that as I was coming back from the office with a package, I saw a car in the campground with a 'for sale' sign on it. We test drove it and bought it on the spot.

Our 'new' car for Oregon

But God knew we needed it because two days later Larry's computer died and we needed to take it to Mac for repair and that would have been really hard on the bike (it's a desk top 27”). Then Larry started having pain that ran from his left ear down to his chest and the pain didn't go away so we ended up taking him to the hospital. After five hours in the hospital and the pain had not subsided and lots of tests, they decided to keep him overnight. Without the car I would not have been able to visit him. They were ready to release him on Sunday (Father's Day) until he decided to take a walk and when he returned to his room (these rooms are really nice, nicer than many motels we've stayed in!) he set off all kinds of alarms and the nurses came running. He was diagnosed with A-Fib. This is the fifth time he has been in the hospital for basically the same thing but when he arrives, all the tests show him to be in great shape. At least this time he was attached to a heart monitor when 'something' happened so they could see what was going on. He doesn't have the usual symptoms and he was unaware anything was happening to his heart during this episode. They changed his meds slightly and he came home on Tuesday and has felt fine ever since. He has been to the VA clinic in Bend twice and has a wonderful doctor there. It is nice that he now has doctors in both Phoenix and Bend to look after him.

Larry's hospital room, all rooms are singles

View of Mt Bachelor from Larry's hospital room

It has been unusually cool here and we have had the heat on nearly every night.  It has gone down to 36º on several occasions.  Will we have summer or not?

During our stay at Sundance we each got new glasses, mine from Costco and Larry's special tactical glasses from Sports Vision, the only place in Bend we could find that could do them.

Since we are 'owners' of the ranch I mowed our grass twice in the month we were there. The ranch truck died while we were there and since it is a Ford F350 dually with a 460 engine (Larry's favorite) Larry volunteered to look at it and fixed it. It needed a new battery and starter which we used the car for (again) to get at NAPA. We also picked up his computer which needed a new logic board.

Sunset at Sundance Meadows Ranch

Pond at Sundance Meadows Ranch

Bluebird I saw going to the office at Sundance

We moved to Cascade Meadows on June 30 for two weeks, about 30 miles away. We detoured to Gordy's truck stop to have the MH washed before checking into Cascade Meadows. It really needed a good washing as we came though rain several times on our way to OR and it was quite dusty at Sundance.