June 30 ~ Leaving on a jet plane

Nancy and I are packing for the next adventure starting July 2. We were offered a house sitting gig for most of July, so we will be out of town. We planned to stay home this summer and harvest the garden, but even the best laid plans need to revised when opportunity knocks. I must say it did not take us long to call back after the phone rang about 3 weeks ago. Sharon and Bill will be vacationing in Hawaii and we will be relaxing in La Paz BCS.
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No se deje engañar. Puedo pedir una cerveza y encontrar el baño.
Do not be fooled. I can order a beer and find the bathroom.

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Bueno adiós mis Amigos. Puede a dios está con usted. Copy the sentence and translate here.

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More from La Paz

June 28

Life is returning to normal for the next couple of days, then we start our next adventure on Thursday. More on that later.
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The garden is starting to produce. We have pulled radishes, dug and drying our garlic and Nancy is picking peas. The first tomato is starting to turn red, the beets are flourishing, the carrots thriving, the onions languishing under the peas, the spinach stubbornly pushing up with their first leaves, the broccoli in its puerile stage, the peppers profuse and the second crop of radishes in the first stages of germination.


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On our trip to Coquille last week, we stopped at the local "What do I do with this old boat?" Starbucks and ordered the catch of the day. It was cute, but the coffee was anemic and torpid.

June 27 ~ Home

Doug, Pam, Nancy and I really enjoyed our little visit to paradise on the Oregon coast. Nancy and I traveled up 101 to Lincoln City to drop off the boat and headed for the barn. The washer is finishing the last load of bedding and I will be on folding duty soon.

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I visited David and the dogs last night in Canby. He is part of a "Relay For Life" team and was walking some of the late night shifts. This weekend, Sherry is supervising moving her companies computers and offices to a new location. Busy, Busy, Busy

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I borrowed this picture from last year.

June 24 Low Tide

You can see the difference in the water levels. The first picture is today's -2.2 and the second is a today's high tide. A minus tide like this will not happen in Bandon until 2013. It was a lot fun wandering around the tide pools and going out to rocks that you have to swim through surf to touch. .






Coquille (co-key-eel) River Lighthouse just across the from downtown Bandon. We were dropping crab pots just to the right of the lighthouse.




Dog Rock - You can see the size of these rock formations comparing them to the lady walking on the beach. You can see Dog Rock from a different angle in one of the sunset pictures on June 19th.

June 23

The tides are very low today and tomorrow. You can walk out serveral hundred yards to see critters that are usually under 3 to 6 feet of water.









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We also made a trip to Coquille to visit the graves of Don and Ann Smith (Nancy and Pam's parents) and see the old Smith homestead.

June 22

Nora helppppinnnng pAppAAA wiiith ththe blooogg.

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Pam's birthday. More cake and ice cream, yummmmm. Doug and I went crabbing and caught four nice ones and everyone else shopped in downtown Bandon.

Cleaning more crabs.

June 22 Father's Day

. . . . . . . . . . . . Left to Right . . . . . . . . Katie, Matt, Ginger, Bud, Nancy, Nora, Pam, Beth, Doug and Emily

Matt, Katie, Nora and Ginger explore the tide pools just north of the cabin.


It was a great day.

June 21

38 years ago today, Nancy let me cut in line behind her at registration for summer school in college.

Matt, Doug and I went crabbing and caught 5 legal dungeness crabs. The fun part is out on the water and cracking the crab is a bit messy.

June 20

Uncle Doug and Nora admiring the sunset.

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Auntie Pam, Beth, Emily and Nora through the window

June 19 Bandon

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Face Rock (top)


We have been going to Bandon for 21 years. Now that the children are older and have other obligations, they may be here for the full week, a couple of days or try to make it next year.

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This year David and Sherry could not make it. We did have Doug, Pam ( Nancy's sister), Beth, Emily, Matt, Katie, Nora, Nancy and yours truly. This place is beautiful.



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Dog Rock (below)

June 18

Nancy and I were getting ready to head down to Bandon, Oregon Friday.

David and Sherry invited us up to Scappoose for an early Father's Day dinner and to share their pictures from their trip to Mexico.

June 16

The day to day activities have been pretty mundane. Adjusting the irrigation system, mowing the lawn, weeding the garden ......






Today my friend Mark and I went back to the Columbia Gorge to take some pictures.

Mark's web site

We had a great field trip! I tried some new settings on my camera. A couple were even successful.

June 5

It has been an interesting week for weather. Monday and Tuesday we were on slow roast in the low 90's. The dogs spent most of the day laying in the shade and getting up to bark at the squirrels. I enjoyed the mornings for coffee on the Casa de Patio and for outside work. Nancy and I did errands or something inside the remainder of the day. Wednesday, the rain started. Thursday afternoon a weather alert was issued for high winds (60mph) and possible large hail. The main storm front moved just north of Milwaukie, but we received a good dose of weather. Winds about 30 to 40 mph, thunder and lighting (rare in these parts) and rain by the buckets. It was a very lively show from inside the house.

Nancy and I went to see the new Star Trek movie today. 5 stars

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"White Tulip Close-up"