All According to the Plan...

We are staked down at Big Pines RV Park in Crescent, Oregon.   We are enjoying the robins and mountain bluebirds play and forage.












Currently, it is only 37 degrees and snow showers have been on and off all day.

Brrrr! We woke up to the snow flurries this morning.  It's been cold, and I haven't stepped away from my warm heater all day.  I gained four pounds today!  Of course, it's the layers that I'm wearing (and the sitting around), but after dieting and losing over forty pounds, I don't appreciate any weight gain!


It really is very beautiful to see the snow falling like little feathers from the sky (through my frosted window).  This beauty is why visiting this part of the country is nice.  And, I know that we will not be living in it for long!  


From my window (frosted, that is), I watch a neighbor's dog trying to catch the falling snow with his mouth.  Even this dog, however, stops to stare at the door of his owner's rig and begs to be let back in.  Did I mention how cold it is out there?


I also watch another neighboring couple who woke up to frozen water pipes.  I guess they haven't much experience RVing in freezing temperatures. (As full time RVers, we have actually been in the snow before... not always by choice!) Those poor people, all bundled up, trying to figure this out! Glad we have our water running nicely.... need it for the hot coffee and hot oatmeal!

I do enjoy being a snowbird.  Do you think some of the real birds of the wildlife nature make the mistake of flying north too soon?  We don't usually make this trek this early in the year.  I don't know what got into us to think we needed to "fly" north so early. 

Regardless, all is going according to our plan.  We knew this would happen today.  We purposely decided it was necessary to lay over one day until this all passed us by.  Tomorrow we will pack it up and move on behind this storm.


At least we are encouraged by occasional blue skies and the warmth of the sun as the snow-clouds float by. Meanwhile, I will enjoy the Internet, the view, some reading, some Sudoku, and the hot beef stew and dumplings that I cooked up. (Cooking helps warm the place up!)