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Crooked River Ranch

 2017 Summer Trip Map That’s where Rick and Sheri live. They’ve got a house and property.  A spot with hookups for our RV next to the pole barn.  A patio in the back. That looks out over this. Not only that, they feed birds! This is the birdiest place we’ve been for weeks!  Quail running all over the ground, scrub-jays, a stellar’s jay, goldfinches, and a pinon jay!  Year bird!  All day long, there are birds. Oh yeah; and we get to hang out with Rick and Sheri.  What a great place to be. 
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It’s a funny thing

 We actually like it here at the Beaver Coach Sales and Service parking lot.  They drive the bus into the bay every morning about 8:00 to work on it.  We get to go in and out of it during the day as we need to.  We leave here and go out in the car during the day as we can, and come back in the afternoon to the coach rolled back out and plugged in waiting for us.    We especially like the way it looks with that accountants’ gray Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited parked right in front of it.  That was the reason for our long day yesterday.  We’ve been looking at Jeeps along the way.  We didn’t like the dealer in Bend, but we liked the dealer in Vancouver, Washington, so we drove back there, traded in the minivan, and returned here in the Jeep.  We loved the minivan, but it was just too much trouble to tow.  We’ll be glad to have the freedom of a Jeep again anyway.  It’s got Autostop/start (Like I’ve been talking about).  Pull up to a stop sign and the engine shuts off.  Parallel and perpendicular park assist.  It’s got safety features.  It overrides unintentional lane drift.  If it sees a front-end crash coming, it first warns, then brakes if you don’t.  It’s got adaptive cruise control; set a speed and if traffic slows, it adjusts to maintain distance, even if it has to stop all the way!  If traffic starts again within a few seconds, so does the Jeep.  Maybe this is the way we get self-driving cars; a little bit at a time; incremental features we learn to depend on more and more, until human driving skills aren’t required at all. They’ve finished with the bus, but they didn’t get finished rigging the Jeep up to tow.  We only got the Jeep to them this morning, so no surprise there.  We’ll leave here tomorrow morning and relocate to Rick and Sheri’s place north of here.  They are kind enough to host us through the weekend, and the eclipse. We’ll come back to Bend on Tuesday to get the Jeep finished. 
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The puzzle

  It’s a simple little thing; light-weight cardboard with five punch-out pieces.  My friend Rock gave it to me. I only have one, so I can’t send it to everybody, but I can send you this.  Print it out, cut it out.  Put all five pieces together to make a square.  How hard could it be? One point for solving the puzzle using only four pieces.  Ten points for solving it using all five!