2026-07-19 - Still selling, cleaning and organizing

We are still in Bend, Oregon, at Norm's - Kris's 94-year-old Dad's place.  We will be here most the summer.

Going through the house, shop, sheds and garage working with Norm on what he wants to get rid of, throw away, or keep.   

Norm did see a pack rat while sitting out on the porch, and put out his traps - he is a pretty good trapper.  Got two pack rats the first night.

We have been working on jigsaw puzzles as well, finally finished one - Norm did most of this puzzle.

Been watching deer, lizards and rock chucks (marmots).  

Norm got out the rifle to shoot the rock chuck, but early in the morning we heard another neighbor shooting, and haven't seen the rock chuck since, so think the neighbor got him.

Kris found a box of old slides, so Norm and Kris dug out the old slide projector and had a family slide show.  Unfortunately the slide projector kept jamming, and unless Kris held her finger on one moveable part it kept jamming.   Kris's finger and arm was numb by the time the 6 reels of slides had been viewed.

Decided to take some of the slides in to have them converted to digital, but cheapest was almost $2.00 per slide - so Kris went online and looked for other methods and ended up making a custom box to display the slide and take a photo of it on her phone.   

It turned out pretty good - photo below is from Kris's homemade slide to digital box.

Photo from slide using Kris's box.   Kris and sister Kay on their donkey Lucy - around 1976

Have been running a few errands, taking cans and bottles in for recycling, and also meeting people who want to buy things in town, as it is a bit of a drive out to Norm's, so some people don't want to make that drive. 

There is a roundabout - or traffic circle in Bend that Kris always laughs about, and we went by it a couple of times.

Nice bear sculpture in traffic circle.

Kris always giggles at it because from the backside it looks like a bear emptying its bowels, and only from the front view can you tell it supposed to just be sitting.

Not much else going on.   Lots of stuff still for sale, but we have sold 19 items, plus some old sterling silver items - so about $4,000 so far - not bad.