October - New adventures and visitors

Roy Suzanne and Pepper visit Hansville

Roy and Suzanne came up for a visit and we enjoyed exploring the town of Poulsbo which has a rich Norwegian history. It was a rather cool weekend but we enjoyed walking the docks as well as exploring the nearby historic downtown. We also explored some of Bainbridge Island and discovered the unique Central Market grocery store that features products from all around the world. Roy loved the meat and cheese area and made selections to create Reuben sandwiches which we enjoyed with sauerkraut.

Ted and Rosalie in Eugene

Of course my leukemia treatments continue and that means a trip to Eugene about once a month. During our time in Eugene this month we were able to take a fall walk to see the color with good friends Ted and Rosalie Hulbert. We also located a nice Honda Civic that will make a nice economical travel car for us. We continue to try and get our mail and accounts moved to Hansville. We are enjoying Hansville and learning more about the community as we get settled. Recently we were out along the Hood Canal not far from our house when we observed a Trident submarine being escorted towards the Bangor Submarine base. Now we know that they come in regularly and we look for them.

Carol and Lou at Hansville.

A couple of weeks later we were visited by old friends, Carol and Lou Brewer and had fun showing them around. Lou particularly wanted to find a seafood restaurant and have oysters. We heard that a good friend, Kitti Schmitz, was going to be in Las Vegas for a convention and our first thought was, darn we will miss her, then we realized “we are retired” so why not go. We started to make changes to our schedule and contacting people to make plans for a road trip.