Dad's New Truck

DeWayne Bowman and his new red 4-door Silverado truck

Dad and his new car parked in front of our house.

Dad bought a 2005 4-door Chevy Silverado. I took this picture of him today. He drives it back and forth each week to his dental office near Devil's Lake which is in Lincoln City 2 hours south of here. He leaves here at 5:30 am on Monday morning, and works Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Next week he will start working Thursday also. He stays over with Michelle and Barry in Newport which is 45 minutes further south along the coast in Newport. Then he drives home after work on Wednesday (or Thursday in the future). He leaves at 5 pm and gets here at 7 pm. That will be hard when the storms set in and he has to drive that narrow two-lane highway when it gets dark at 4 pm and it is raining and and the wind is blowing!!



Near the summit of the beautiful coast range.

THE COAST RANGE AND A VISIT TO AN ORAL SURGEON

Today we drove to McMinnville which is a small city on the other side of the coast range. I took this picture up in the mountains. I hate the fact that there is so much logging going on. We went to McMinnville so I could see an Oral Surgeon about the lesion on my tongue. He is going to biopsy it on October 19 and also remove eight teeth at the same time all done under general anesthesia. It will cost $2000 so Dad has to work 4 days just to pay for that! People with diabetes that isn't perfectly controlled can have high blood sugar which promotes the development of dental decay (caries).