ComfortZone

Here’s a bit of family news… we’ve got a cat! Actu­ally it’s Alison’s new cat, but we are all def­i­nitely enjoy­ing it!

At our pump­kin carv­ing party, my brother Ken asked if any­body wanted a cat. His neigh­bor in Mil­waukie had been taking care of an aban­doned cat and was look­ing for a home for it. Usu­ally when any­body asks that ques­tion, the answer is quick and def­i­nite “No, Thanks!”

But the idea had been dis­cussed at our dinner table a few weeks prior to this, so we were open to the pos­si­bil­ity. Within a day or so, Alison decided the time was right. So the arrange­ments were made, and Ken and Tonya’s neigh­bors per­son­ally deliv­ered it out here to Dundee! This man and his wife have placed sev­eral res­cued cats in the Port­land area, and really care about their well-​being.

This cat (not named yet) is very friendly (unlike our last one!) and gets to be inside (also unlike our last one!).

You may not have noticed the new “Com­fort Coun­sel­ing” link over in my “Favorite Sites” list, but some­thing new is slowly coming to life, here in the Com­fort house­hold. Over the past few weeks Deanne has been in the process of start­ing her own pri­vate practice!

Find­ing job oppor­tu­ni­ties that fit her cur­rent needs has been prov­ing dif­fi­cult, if not impos­si­ble. Some­thing not in Port­land, and not full-​time… So, feel­ing like she needed to DO SOME­THING, she began to do some dream­ing and inves­ti­gat­ing. The two of us began look­ing into the require­ments of start­ing a small busi­ness: incor­po­ra­tion, insur­ance, pro­mo­tion, web site, print­ing, sig­nage, etc.

Then a really good oppor­tu­nity came about when our friend Tim Hyatt offered to sub-​lease an office in his North­west Inte­gra­tive Health Center, a Natur­o­pathic med­ical prac­tice here in New­berg. So she decided to go for it!

We real­ize it is going to take some time to get going, but the start-​up things are grad­u­ally coming together. This week the sign should be up on the corner of Han­cock and Merid­ian Streets and the word will be out!

Here’s a screen shot from Deanne’s Home­page. I couldn’t be more proud of her efforts!