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We took care of a few errands today, grocery shopping and a stop a Home Depot. Kinda funny, Home Depot used to be a frequent stop to get home and yard improvement stuff for our house in Benton City, but it's not a place we usually stop at anymore. However we’ve been thinking about warm summer weather and wanted to see if they carried foil insulation for windows. Sure enough they sell rolls of it so we picked some up. We love our lovely big windows but when the sun is beating through them it heats up this trailer quickly! We will be able to put it in the windows or take it out easily, like the covers people use for their car windshields, so it will only block our view when really needed. The windows are tinted but since this insulation will completely block the sun it will really help out.

We also visited with Dave’s brother at his trailer sales lot. We walked through a few of the trailers, he had some real nice ones. Always fun to look at new RV’s, and fun to chat with Jim.

Photos:
Top: Clouds yesterday here in Chehalis, WA
Bottom: Cheye on a walk through the park

Nearly Empty Park

It surprises me how empty this beautiful park is. Since Tuesday there have been about 7 RV’s here, and I think 3 of those are coaches or trailers of people that work in the park. Over the weekend there were a few more campers, maybe another 6 to 8 rigs, so still not many. I’m not complaining at all I just expected to see more people here, after all Thousand Trails Chehalis has over 300 campsites. I imagine it will change drastically after Memorial Day.

The weather really cooled off yesterday here in Chehalis - back to long jeans and jackets. On the up side we still see the sun peek out between the clouds throughout the day. I took Cheye for a walk over to the dog run this morning and met a couple of ladies whose husbands work here at the park. I found out one of the reasons the new dog run area is so big is that the fencing was formerly around the pool area, which is good sized. They upgraded the pool fencing from chain-link to PVC fencing. They then decided to put the chain-link to use by creating a dog run…which I, and Cheyenne, definitely approve of!

Photos
Top: Our "patio" area
Middle: The new dog run here at TT Chehalis
Below: views around the park

A little move

The weather has been amazing the the last couple days. Unfortunately the weatherman is telling us it won’t last, but at least we’ve had a few nice days.

We went into Chehalis (WA) yesterday for a few things and picked up lunch at Quizno's. The rest of our time has been spent enjoying the park and weather...both were quite easy to do!

While out on a walk around the park today we decided to move. A couple of coaches had left and one of the sites was quite nice, great view out the back, in an area with a few more trees, sewer hookup and enough of a clearing overhead to get satellite. Sounded like a winning combination so we moved over a “street”. Our last site had satellite but not as good a view or sewer hookup. It’s fun being able to move like that.

Oooooo pretty sunset….I’ll go take a few photos and share!

Photos
Top: our new site
Bottom: tonight's fabulous sunset
Video: Views around the Lodge at Thousand Trails Chehalis

Fabulous Sunday

Wow…what a fabulous day! Made it up to 81 according to our thermometer. Dave and I were able to sit outside and really enjoy the day, plus we took a few walks around the park. The views of Mount St. Helens were striking, so photos were called for. You can see another mountain in the distance, I think it is Mt. Adams but I’m not real good at identifying mountains.

We did take care of a few things, a couple of the curtain tie-backs had pulled away from the wall so Dave fixed that. I caught up the checkbook…yep pretty strenuous day. :o)


Photos:
Top: Mount St. Helens
Middle: Mt. Adams??? - Not sure about that
Bottom: The sky line
Video: In yesterday’s blog I mentioned the gully washer we had the other day, I have a little video showing the end of the downpour, the rest is of Thousand Trails Chehalis.

Some rain and some visiting

We had an errand day yesterday, nothing really noteworthy except some weather. Rain was predicted but what we got was a real gully washer! After picking up the mail and a few groceries we were driving back to the park and the rain hit…hard! With wipers on full and truck slowed down it was still hard to see. There was some hail mixed in the rain so that added to the fun. It’s a very short distance between the pickup and the trailer but we still got drenched running to the trailer with the bags of groceries.

By morning the weather had cleared up and today was lovely. It was also Kathy’s (Dave’s sister-in-law) birthday. We were invited over for birthday dinner and had a fun time with Jim & Kathy and Kathy’s family. Good food and lots of fun, always a nice combination.


Photos
Top: Deer by the trailer
Middle: Recon, Jim's dog
Bottom: Kathy's horses

Full-time RVer day

Today was a true full-timer day, no schedule, no commitments, just a day of total relaxation in a beautiful setting...ahhhhhhh……. BTW Dave was kind enough to photo the sun coming up so I could see it too…. I’ve included the photos in the slide show. ;o)

Photo: When we were at Jim & Kathy’s yesterday Cheye pestered Kathy for a raw potato, so Kathy obliged and Cheye was so pleased.
Video: Scenes from today at Thousand Trails Chehalis.

Thousand Trails Chehalis, WA

We traveled about 80 miles this morning from Vancouver to the Thousand Trails Chehalis Preserve. They have done a lot of pruning and some cleaning up around the park since we were here last summer. Looks good.

After finding a site and getting set up we took Cheye for a walk. The park is pretty empty, Chehalis closes down over the winter and has only been open a few weeks. It really is a lovely park, lots of deer and nice sized sites.

This afternoon we visited with Dave’s Brother and Sister-in-law, Jim & Kathy. We had a nice visit and Kathy prepared a yummy dinner for us. I think it’s been almost 3 weeks since I have cooked dinner…I imagine that run will end very soon, like tomorrow!



Photos
Our site at Thousand Trails Chehalis and a visit from the deer.