It’s a new year.

It’s been a long time coming but we are finally back in NE Oregon. Many years ago I was a kid in Pilot Rock, now we are living in Pendleton, just 15 miles from where I lived until the 5^th grade.  

Our new house (we sign papers on the 20^th) is an old, 1920, two story ranch house that was moved from one end of Pendleton to the other in 1960 and put on a basement. There is still a visible seam about ½ up the bottom half of the second story windows where they cut the top part of the house off to make clearance under the power lines. Since the only road through town at the time was right though down town, it must have taken up the whole of the street and been moved during the dark of the night.

Now sitting on an acre of ground the house is bordered on one side by a storage unit and on the other by a small city park. Quiet neighbors and a slow speed limit for traffic in front of the house will take some getting used to, but I think we can handle it. The nearest neighbor behind us is in a housing addition and they are about 120 yards up the hill behind the house.

There is a small, very seasonal creek between us and the hill, but it’s enough that we have to have flood insurance. I guess it Could flood if we had a 500 year flood but no one in the area can remember it ever flooding. A nice double car garage with a couple of small bonus rooms in the back will make a great wood shop and the deck will allow us to host gatherings at our house for a change.

So, here we are about to move in to a new (to us anyway) house, in a town we have only lived near, and starting a new business, in a new year. All is good with the world. Well our small little section of it anyway. Oh, and it’s the first time since I was a baby that my brother and I have lived in the same town.

Welcome 2015, here is to making it a Great year!