This Crazy Life

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

It has definitely been a few days since I posted.  This morning I started going through the photos I had taken on my phone over those last few days.  My phone was full of photos.  Looking at them just made me realize how busy we had really been.  We’ve been busy, busy, busy but not too much different than what I had blogged about previously.

This buck is going to have a good sized rack this fall.  He's not aware of what a beauty he will be.  Deer are all out now and we've even seen a few of this year's babies.

I figured I had blogged enough about kayaking, dieting, DNA and genealogy.  However, those topics have been pretty much consuming our days.    So, I guess that’s what this will just have to be about too ….. sorry about that. 

These are my food shots.  Everyone does food shots so even though mine aren’t exciting, they are photos of recent dinner meals.

Salad and a little meat -- pretty good meal for me.

Another night and another dinner salad.  This time with egg, salmon and zero calorie dressing

The week started out with some pretty gorgeous weather.  By the time mid-week rolled around we were getting buckets of rain again.  However, it looks like the weatherman might be our friend again as the week should end with more gorgeous weather  -- not too hot, not too cold but with plenty of sunshine.  That’s one thing we like about this part of the country – the beautiful summer days rarely needing to turn on that air conditioner.  When others are complaining about the heat in July and August, we're enjoying the perfect days.

Nasty weather crossing the I205 into Portland.

Dumping water off of Tammi's awning.

Some of the back roads around here are just that – back roads. You never know what you will come across or what you will be behind.

A wet one lane bridge

Lots of logging trucks around

Our Jeep rack is almost finished.  We have two more side racks that will be ready next week.  Now we’re just trying to figure out how to make sure two kayaks can stay securely on top of it while going down the highway.  We have a little more work with the planning to do in that area.

And, YES, we did do some more kayaking. On Saturday we were back at the lake with Tammi, Robert, Sandi and Mike.  They also introduced their two dogs to kayaking as you can see from the pictures.  Did the dogs like the kayaking??  Well, I’m not so sure about that.

 Mike with his dog -- life jackets for both!









Sandi with her dog and again both have their own life jackets.  No sharing here.















There’s no way that I’d attempt to take Duchess in a kayak with me.  We’d both be swimming for sure.

We had an early Father’s Day celebration last Sunday with Lee, Sabrina, Jordie and Brendan.  Off the barbecue came ribs for the meat eaters and halibut for the seafood eaters.  However, no pictures of those food items.  Next it was off to the lake so they could test the waters kayaking for the first time.  Since no one turned over a boat and no one got dunked, I’m guessing it turned out to be a pretty successful day.

 

 

Check out the neat little “cabin” below.  It is right at the water’s edge.  Someone put a little effort into putting it together.  It’s not water proof though.  It depends on the level of the water in the lake.  Sometimes it’s dry and sometimes you have to wade to get to it.

I’ve been asked a couple times how long we’ll be around this area.  Well, as long as the kids have time for us, we’ll be here.  When they get bored with our company … it’s on the road again.  I’m sure most of you know how it goes.  My father always used to say when the food stops, it’s time to leave.  It’s the same thing with entertainment and we’re pretty busy now so I’m thinking we’ll be around here a while. However, I can also say that we are thinking through our winter plans and every time we think about them, they get changed.  It’s a Jell-O thing  --  wiggle, wiggle.

Tonight is graduation night.  Jordie is graduating from high school and has one year of college under her belt to boot.  That’s three grandkids out of high school and only one left.  Sandi is the baby.  She graduates in two more years but she’s also starting college along with her high school this fall.  Our babies are growing up for sure!

‘Tis on the road again…. well, it will be sometime soon.