Settle in Portland Area

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Here is the deck that I replaced in about 1983. It had been built with untreated lumber and was pretty badly rotted after about ten years. I built the same deck but using treated lumber. 20 years later and it is still in pretty good shape (30 year warranty on the lumber).
I used some of the lumber that wasn't badly rotted in the old deck to build various shelves and such including these shelves in the back basement area.
For the weekend when David visited, I slept on the sofa in the living room. No big deal after you have slept in your car for over a year. On Sunday I helped David pack his car. He took most of stuff back with him to Albany to make his mom's move easier. Here is a picture of him resting. Jay was feeling shy and wouldn't let me get a picture of him.
On Monday I visited the ashram in S. Fallsburg, NY. There were numerous changes, the most obvious of which is that one of the three campuses as no longer a part of Syda Yoga. It had been sold to a neighboring Jewish religious retreat organization that was expanding.
Here is a picture of the meeting hall for the Jewish religious organization that seemed to be expanding every year. It is located on the grounds of the now defunct Deville Hotel in S. Fallsburg, NY.
Syda Yoga normally had signs up asking that people not take pictures, but in the transition, the gate was open (as the new owners were renovating sections) and no such signs. I tool pictures of the main building of the old hotel where I did a lot different work over the years, moving furniture and picking up trash and such. It also had a really large dorm room which is where I normally stayed on my various weekend visits over the years.
Here is the building previously known as Devi that was used as dorm rooms when things got crowded during the summer. In the summer of 1993 I stayed in Devi for about 10 weeks.
On my return on Tuesday, I had a morning flight of Westchester county airport flying to Boston. It was a Continental Connect flight offered by CommutAir. It was on the turboprop plane shown here. It was one of the smaller planes I have ever flown on.
There was only one seat on each side of the aisle. The crew was just a pilot and co-pilot with no service during the admittedly short flight. They flew us into Boston. From there I took a regular Continental Express flight right back to Newark, NJ (hardly an hour drive from Westchester County airport).
The pilot of the CommutAir flight was a young woman (about 30 would be my guess). I thought that was cool. My flight out of Newark was a normal Continental flight and flew directly to Portland, OR.
On May 21 I got a call from Jason at Glacier, a concrete mixing company. I had applied with them about six weeks earlier, but hadn't heard anything back.
The interview went pretty well with me avoiding the question of what I did in NY (I talked about driving trucks and buses for the ashram while not mentioning the programming I did for Verizon). The training for people without mixer experience but who already have a CDL takes one to two weeks. They had a couple of positions but some of the applicants had mixer experience.
Later in the week (22nd), I had an interview with Randy at Woodfeathers. I had applied with them on Apr 4, but hadn't heard anything back. I saw their ad and Randy set up the interview. The interview went OK. I also put classified ads in the local papers for work as a handyman or computer repair (different ads).