5C's Que Pasa

We awoke to frost on the top of the Jeep and on surrounding roofs.

-2C/28F with the wind chill at 7AM.  What concerns me is that 21C/70F next Tuesday.  Hopefully that is not too much of a rapid melt of the snow pack.

We both saw the beaver this morning.  Good to know that he is still around.  This was taken through a window and zoomed in quite a bit.

The weather continues to remain unseasonably cold and unusual. It rained all night and at slightly higher elevations snow fell.  There were two more mud slides locally affecting traffic.

By end of day yesterday I got things sorted into piles and today I was able to get most of the envelopes slit open in between other calls to our lawyer,  the bank, etc.

I got the laundry finished today, yeah!  But why would 3 of 8 pair of Colin’s shorts turned themselves inside out?  Later three of my sundresses did the same thing.

Colin cleaned the inside of the RV during the heavy rains and then the basements when it stopped for a bit.  Snow on the local hills as the clouds lifted.  This is what we normally see in November.  The rain soon started yet again.

So much snow.  Unfortunately one of the Jeep tires decided to start deflating so Colin headed off to a tire store and was gone for just over two hours.  Not sure yet but we may have to buy another two new tires for the Jeep.  We have to test the tire for a bit but they thought that the tire might last the summer.

Saw this on the news this morning. There have been a number of such incidents.  Looks like we will be emptying our basement before we head to Europe.  We likely will be flooded once again.

Just a bit of the bedroom mess yesterday.  We had three more loads like this.

The pile of mail plus other bits I have to deal with.

Yes those are twelve more sundresses ( my uniform ).  I was worried that I could not get anymore in this style so I bought a few here and there and wow they expanded.  I am good for at least three years.  Because they are cotton they do stain and are impossible to clean.  For 100 – 120 pesos ( $7.00-$8.00 each CAD ) they are worth it.

We got a lot of rain today.

Lots of laundry.  I got 7 loads done today including returning it all to the RV.  Tomorrow I have 5 more loads to do and then I am caught up for a week.

Rain in the morning during which Colin cleaned the inside of the RV, and sun in the afternoon, perfect for dealing with unloading the basement and the car.  Then late afternoon these dark clouds rolled in with wind and a lot of rain.  More snow to add to the 150 percent of normal snow pack.

More beautiful scenery as we leave Washington State.  This is the Okanogan river which is high as were all the bodies of water we saw today.

Adios USA and hola Canada.

Barely any growth on anything in the vineyards nor the orchards.  Spring is definitely late.

Gloomy.

Somehow the large first filter he was installing slipped out of his hands and fell onto our pipes, the ones that lead into the house.  He was lucky that as the water gushed up into his face and all over him that we was able to shut off the main switch.  We called every plumber in the book.

This was the only one who answered the phone.  None of the others have even returned our call.  So yeah for us as I did not want to be without water all night ( yes I could go out in the middle of the night to us the RV toilet but !!!! ).  So he came, fixed it all and charged us the emergency Sunday rate.  But we had water.

Colin worked with Luke as I continued to load and move and put things away.   I put 7400 steps in just doing the back and forth.

I took a moment to take this shot to show how low the snow is for this time of year.

The alarm even though set properly did not go off so we did not get up till 6:30AM but were still driving by 7:15AM. We got a new neighbor to the right of us last evening.  Had a great sleep last night surrounded by quiet RV’s.  Have I mentioned that the wifi is free and very fast.

Looks like it was from the 50’s. Such small windows.

We saw a variety of scenery today.

Of course we just had to have some snow along the way.  The fellow in the old Prevost on the left of us in the top photo said that they came up through Salt Lake City and it was snowing very hard.

Pendleton Pass is quite a big to do.

We are going downhill to the bottom of that valley.

As we travel down others are slowly working their way up the pass.

We have never seen it so clear before, usually we have rain or snow.  That is the road we are heading to, down on the left.

The runaway ramp to the right.

See that white dot above Colin’s left arm, that is a semi heading down the pass.  We are on our way.

If you look up you can see that that is where we started our descent.

Why would a Prevost need 5 air conditioning units??

Dam on the Columbia River as well as a few tiny dots of fishermen.

Moses Lake, Soap Lake, Lenore Lake, Blue Lake, Sun Lakes and many more.

A very beautiful part of Washington State.

We are now in the Okanogan area of Washington, where the apples come from.  In Canada we live in the Okanagan region, slightly different spelling.

We certainly saw a lot of cows the last few days including many new calves. Have never seen so many white ones in the same place.

Finally stopped for the night in Omak, Washington, in a Walmart.  This is only our third Walmart in 160 days.  Nice stop as we can stock up on groceries which will keep us going for the next week as we get settled at home.  I am using free wifi from the building with the red roof across the road.  It is cool but not a biting cold.