It seems highly
possible that we will be moving again within the next 2-3 years. Roland wants to start a business, and we
considered an adult day care in Myrtle Creek - we had even found the most
perfect building and location - but the business will need to be open 6-8
months before we can get the benefits for Veteran and Medicare support. It would be less costly just to take over
someone else's business or become a sub company and partner with a business
that already has a name; they would be our parent company, I suppose.
He has talked to a woman in Taggart who
offers adult day care as well as residency.
We are just interested in doing the daycare portion at this time. Or he is, rather. I have not made it a secret
with how I feel about business. I don't
want to get into food. I think Roland would
rather just leave Myrtle Creek and go to where he can not only create a
business, but establish cliental - which actually doesn't seem so promising in
Myrtle Creek. Roland will have to
educate potential cliental on whatever business he chooses - where some of more
populated cities are already in the frame of mind to except (or even accept)
whatever kind of business Roland may open.
I personally, will have a very hard time
leaving this area. I love the close-knit
- pull-together community that we currently live in - not necessarily offered
in larger cities. Roland's always
talking about moving to Eugene - which is my opinion seems to resemble Salt
Lake City in many ways. No. I don't want to live in Lane County. I'd be willing to move to Polk or Marion
County. I wanted to prove to him that
Eugene and Portland are not the only two cities in Oregon with business
opportunity. On Saturday we went to our
state's capitol city: Salem.
Most of the items I had written on my
list for outdoors and the weather was quite overcast and often raining. The Riverfront Carousel is an indoor
carrousel. It was a two and a half hour
drive each way, but I think it was worth it to capture Jenna's smile.
We first stopped at a Burger King in
Cottage Grove. We were hungry. She always asks for a crown. I think at least two of my boys would do the
same, and proudly wear the crown.
The name of Jenna's horse was Razzle
Dazzle. She noticed the horse's
medallion right away. I don't think I
would have noticed. We thought it to be
exceptionally cool.
I
thought she should be on the outside so
that she could grab rings out of the fish's mouth. The person that ends up with the
"brass" ring gets another free ride.
Jenna
leaned out to grab the rings. I think we
had seven of them. Assorted red, white
and green. But there was a heavier ring
to represent the brass ring.
So Jenna went around again and smiled
widely as she collected rings.
We took a short walk around the grounds
and took a few pictures of the riverfront.
After Jenna finished with her delight at
the children's playground (which she is obviously too big for)
We headed to the Salem Public
Library. We were allowed to park for
free as there was an event going on.
Several tables had been set up by members of the community to advertise
places of business - sort of like an indoor fair without the food or rides.
Jenna loved earning prizes and
demonstrated her skills on ukulele.
The instructor's were impressed with how
quickly she picked up on the fingering, but Uncle Bill had showed how back when
we were still living in Utah.
I have a cousin who lives in Salem. Unfortunately we have not been able to touch base (except through facebook) since we arrived in this state.
I had a lot of ideas in my head about
what to post and how many new blogs I could create. It was the weekend and my family became a
priority over the keyboard. Or else I
have been tired.
It snowed on Sunday morning. Jenna was really happy about that. We drove to Church in the same conditions we
had faced all too often in Salt Lake . . . but it was gone long before Church
let out. Weird.
