Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is a good time to hear from old friends. We got an email from Marlyn Evans. The Evans will be leaving soon for a trip to Africa, but will be in town (briefly) while we're in Southern California, so we're looking forward to seeing them, and all our square dancing friends.

We called the Benson Post Office this morning to check on our General Delivery mail. We had asked Sandy Riverfront where we'll be staying in May/June to send the application packet to us there. It hadn't arrived, and the post office actually didn't have any window hours on Saturday, but the very nice lady who answered the phone offered to forward it to our next destination. We had to go to the post office to sign a forwarding order. By way of explanation, an application packet is required by all Oregon parks to stay for a month or more. We both have to submit to a criminal background and credit check, for which we have to pay $30 each.

Meanwhile, we've been having problems with our Sprint USB modem and had asked Millenicom for a replacement to be sent to Jan's address in Mesa. Instead they sent it to our Texas mail service address, so now we'll have to wait for it to be forwarded. We don't usually have mail problems, but sometimes it is a bit cumbersome to have our mail chasing us around the country.

This evening we watched Oliver Twist--not the musical version, but Roman Polanski's dramatic version. It was entertaining and more realistic than the musical, but not as emotionally engaging as the book.

I browsed through the Hofmeisters' book Movin' On because I wanted to return it to the library before leaving in the morning. It's entertaining but not much new for us.