Enjoying Our Flowers

These are the days to enjoy the flowers and sit on the front porch and take a nap!

Staying at Home, Sort Of

It feels good not to feel like we better start packing for another trip. Both of our good friends, the Griswolds and the Eggers are leaving the county this weekend for vacations but we are the ones staying home. That's a switch!
We did have a great weekend though. Saturday morning Jim and I and grandson Isaak drove out to our local airport for the annual Father's Day fly-in. I brought my lawn chair and Pop and Isaak walked around to their heart's content while I sat in the shade of a CHP plane. Then we attended the wedding of Maria Egger, one the the kids we've known forever! It was a lovely, outdoor wedding, a little nontraditional but interesting and sweet!
Monday, we drove up to the cabin and were pleased to be there while the FS came by to do their final inspection for our 20 year lease. We passed but were told to make a few additional changes. Twenty years from now it will be someone else's job to get the place ready for inspection! It was beautiful up there, again! Cool enough to have a small fire in the fireplace in the morning and enjoy a campfire in the evening. We cleaned and raked and dusted and tried to get things tidy for Jacob and Tania and kids. Can't wait to see them!

Home in the Foothills

We pulled in last Saturday, driving for more hours that we had on any other day of our trip. I guess we just really wanted to get home!
Jim totalled our mileage and we drove 5079 miles all together. It was a great trip and we are thankful that we had no mechanical failures, no close calls on the highways and we were healthy the whole time! Our last day on the road, when we crossed into California, of course, we payed $5.09 for diesel. That was the most we paid. I guess we'll park the truck and drive the old Subaru when we need to.
We feel blessed to have been able to see more of this great country!

Pizza before heading home

We all went out to Pizza on Thursday night to celebrate. Jacob passed his oral exam at work with 95 percent!! Tomorrow we are heading towards home and plan to be there in a couple of days. We will check out Valley of the Rogue State Park tonight, then on to somewhere around Redding tomorrow.

Diesel $4.75

Grandkids!

We are having some good days of loving on three of the cutest grand kids! Hannah and I went to a couple of stores this morning and colored in her coloring books. Kaleb and Jim and I went to a nearby state park and walked along the Willamette river. this afternoon. We saw the largest black oak in the US, and saw a ferry at work on the river. The skies threatened to rain on us but we managed to dodge the rain drops. Yesterday, we somehow managed to all fit in the trailer for dinner. Tomorrow, we celebrate Jacob's completion to a major test for his job, and we will got out to eat! He has an oral exam tomorrow AM. Diego has taken a liking to Papa, reaching his little arms out to him all the time. I'm a little jealous.

Almost Home

We made it to Oregon yesterday, to a wonderful little county park on the mighty Columbia river. Here at Boardman Marina and RV Park the river is huge. Because the wind is blowing, there are white caps bouncing across the water. Unfortunately, the wind is from the west and will push against us this morning, lowering out mileage. Nevertheless, we are enjoying this spot and would like to return some day when we can spend a little more time. Right now, we are like horses bound for the barn, and except for a visit with the kids in Salem, we want to get HOME!