I may not be in a bloggy mood lately, but I am in a listy mood. I also like to make up words like listy and bloggy. We have been loving Oregon even before we moved here, and today I just added yet another reason. So for all you folks who think we should move, consider these goodies we get out here in the rainy Willamette Valley...
10. Just found out today there is no safety inspection required to get cars registered! Hooray! My car is falling apart and I can delay fixing it for another few weeks!!! ( The plates also expired in October, yeah, we are a little behind.)
9. No sales tax. On anything. Which is a huge deal when you've lived in Utah, where they tax everything.
8. The ocean is only an hour away.
7. The casino is only 15 minutes away ;)
6. Everything grows out here, even dead sticks sprout occasionally.
5. The fall color is un-be-liev-able right now.
4. The rain. I can't quite explain just how cozy and calming pouring rain makes me feel, but its been raining steady for three days now and I am happy as a clam.
3. Trees. Trees. And more trees.
2. The sound the forest behind my house makes when the wind is blowing. It sounds just like the ocean.
1. The best thing of all -- NO SNOW!! Not only is there no snow (well hardly any snow) but the winters are mild and so are the summers. To me, that is perfection right there.
Oh, and just a side note here, I voted last week through the mail.
4 comments:
I have heard that Oregon is a very nice place and it is on my list of places that I want to visit one day. So far I have only made it till California and Nevada...
Overall, I think the west coast has a different world charm...
You're making me miss home--did you know that I'm from Washington?
Oh, how I miss the mild, mild, mildness. :)
Maybe I knew once, but I had forgotten. What part of Washington? If it was mild it must have been west of the Cascades.
I'm from Longview, it's about an hour north of Portland. Are you in Salem? I have two sets of cousins in Salem so I've been there many times. But only to the same two houses, so I don't know it very well. :)
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