Eugene, Oregon: The techs came for our coach at 8 o'clock this morning, so we had to occupy ourselves all day away from the Magna Peregrinus. First things first - breakfast - where we ran into DT's college coach (again) at a table-full of old track cronies enjoying pancakes.
Next stop was to drive-by the new Matt Knight Arena under construction on campus. This state-of-the-art basketball arena will replace the 85-year-ancient (yet historical) Mac Court. I have not seen the arena project for over four months and could not believe the progress.


There are many changes on the campus at the University of Oregon. But, I am happy to report some things remain the same. (Besides the ancient dorms.)

I have my seat. Do you?
If you don't... check out CBS on Saturday. CBS will show the final day in HD.
Ashton in HD should be awesome.
The rest of the morning was spent shopping, errands, and of course a visit to the NIKE store in Eugene.

We had wasted all the time we could, so headed back to Cummins Northwest. Maybe the lube-oil-filter was complete. Maybe the annual servicing on the Aqua Hot was finished. Maybe the annual generator check-up was over.

Yes and No.
Generator was great. We did get a little scolding that we do not use her enough. Only 75 hours in 19 months. Tech would have liked it be over 100 hours by now. Gonna get right on that! Aqua-Hot also checked-out fine... though we were told to use the diesel burner more often.
We forget.
We prefer 50 amp campsites, so rarely need the diesel burner for the water heater/furnace thingy.
Everything went well with the lube-oil-filter portion of the servicing, but the tech found a mysterious fuel leak that would need further investigation. It was now nearly two o'clock and Cummins suggested we return in an hour or two.
Lunch!
So, you may recall I have been writing about how it has been raining buckets for days and days and days and days and days and days and days and days? Maybe by this photo you can see I was not kidding.

It is June, people.
June.


By now, we couldn't think of another thing to do in Eugene, so we head back to Cummins Northwest.



The Cummins rep and Cummins Northwest will determine how best to acquire the part and we will figure out how to let them have our bus for a few days. In the meantime, we have a track meet to attend.
I leave you this evening with something totally random: Our daughter, The Lovely Lisa, owns a little home in Los Angeles. The City of Los Angeles allows residents to water their lawns for 15 seconds every other Thursday (or something like that) and her front garden (full sun all day) was beginning to look like the Mojave Desert. The back lawn (full shade) looks great. The Lovely Lisa decided to have artificial lawn installed and the job was completed yesterday.

I am not a lover of fake things, but I just love this fake grass. No watering. No mowing. Looks great. (Can't wait to hear what our Grand Dawg thinks of his new front lawn.)

Until my next update, I remain, your drippy correspondent.