Our Washington / Idaho Gig

Dang it's just beautiful out here.  We're absolutely loving it ... until the snow flies ... then not so much!  These are photos from one of the farms we adjusted.

Nice Horsey Horsey

AD's encounter with Nice Horsey Horsey

Special Show Geese; she ships them all over the USA

Somebody's Thanksgiving or Family Pet?

We both found this Buddhist Temple intriguing.  You could definitely see if from several blocks away.  It was in a VERY ROUGH, SCARY part of Spokane; interesting!

Front Elevation

Right Elevation

I flew home for a few days to greet new grand baby Svea.  Philoberto and Adjuster Dog picked me up at the airport on Friday.  AD refused to leave my lap for the one hour ride home ... she missed her mama!

Sleeping Baby Girl

My Lap Dog

Most of our claims have been "wind" claims.  They had three large wind storms move through the area; the result was 50 year old pine trees snapping off or being uprooted from the ground.  It's a very "woodsy" area and everyone loves their trees.

Philoberto caressing the uprooted tree

Snapped off

We've also been assigned flood, hail, large house fire, theft, vandalism claims.  Getting some great experience out here and enjoying the beauty at the same time.  As we write this we have been asked to go on stand-by for the California Earthquake.  We have about two weeks of inspections scheduled here so it's not looking good for us to head to CA.  We'll see ... depends on how much damage is really there.

Idaho and Washington

Bizarre but true ... we're working in WA/ID instead of Hawaii.  I KNOW!  We've never been to Hawaii so we were pretty excited about the possibility of actually working two hurricanes.  For us, it wasn't meant to be and we accepted an assignment in the NW.  Even though it's not Hawaii, I was excited to see a part of the country that I hadn't seen before.  First on the list was Montana; the picture below was taken on Interstate 90 just outside of Billings, MT.

Philoberto noticed black stuff in the mirror and thought we might be losing our bikes (I love my bike so naughty words were uttered)!  A closer look let him know that the rear RV tire was shredding into pieces so we pulled over to change it out.  AD and I sat comfortably inside the cab while the boy changed the tire.  Just as he finished, Officer Friendly showed up for a motorist assist.  From my air conditioned cab I noticed Phil's T-shirt and rushed back for the photo-op of the day.  We needed a laugh cuz nothing had gone right on that day!

Phil & Officer Friendly who offered to cuff Philoberto

On Saturday 8/9/14 we landed in Newport, WA (on the WA/ID border) for a couple of weeks.  Half of our claims are in ID and the other half in the Spokane area so we're halfway between.  The pics below are from a claim we stopped at today ... amazing!

Treetop landed on their entrance

 

HOLY WIND BATMAN!

Dachshund vs. Badger (ground squirrel)

I had some videos from IL that I forgot to share so I'll share now.  We call it "Dachshund vs. Badger".  We tried to walk around the lake daily and Adjuster Dog discovered ground squirrels.  OMG!  Entertainment City for us (all work for her).  Dachshunds were bred to hunter badgers and she was just doing her thing ... we're so proud!

The following is Adjuster Dog rolling in the grass then getting scared by who knows what.  She jumps into Mama's lap (thus disrupting the video) and is safe once again. She's so NOT brave and mama's so proud!

AD loves her grass!

Last Sunset in Monmouth, IL

The Pacific Time Zone change has been difficult.  We're so used to East Coast we can't seem to adjust.  People are very friendly and the outdoor activity is HUGE!  Basically, we feel comfortable here because it's exactly like being in the CO Rockies (only the elevation is 2000-2500).  And more importantly, they have lakes and rivers everywhere!  It really is a gem ... we had no idea that Eastern WA/Western ID was like this.

That's it for now so until later,

Peace & Love & Pray for Storms!