Nice view.
Nice trails.
Nice flowers.
Nice trails. Nice flowers. Merry Christmas
If you’ve spent any time wondering where your Christmas tree comes from, we’ve found the place.
Field after field, mile after mile, entire mountainsides, of Christmas trees!
Field after field, mile after mile, entire mountainsides, of Christmas trees! Silver Falls State Park
A walk along a quiet stream.
Serene. An American Dipper poking about in the water.
We come to an edge.
The water goes over.SouthFalls more South Falls 
Serene. An American Dipper poking about in the water. We come to an edge. The water goes over.SouthFalls more South Falls Jeff and Carol
We hung out with them a lot when we were all at Gulf Waters. Then they moved to Bandera. That wasn’t so far away so we still hung out with them some. Two years ago they moved to Salem, and we haven’t seen them since. Until yesterday. We went to their house for dinner. The house is nice and normal.
Truck and travel-trailer in the driveway.
But the yard; the yard is anything but normal.
…a little bit of yard-art, and a whole lot of plants.
Cameron was just put the finishing touches on the mural.
A little deck in the back with a wading pool for the granddaughter Francis.
I suppose that garden is always in bloom.
For dinner, a nice fajita spread. Under Francis’ watchful eye, Myet prepared the custom decorated, strawberry, lemonade, seltzer special drinks.
With umbrellas!
Amanda, who works at a research facility, brought a few flats of just-picked organic blackberries and blueberries. I think Robin and Judy didn’t move from the kitchen counter for about an hour.
It’s all Eddie’s house and yard.
Truck and travel-trailer in the driveway. But the yard; the yard is anything but normal. …a little bit of yard-art, and a whole lot of plants. Cameron was just put the finishing touches on the mural. A little deck in the back with a wading pool for the granddaughter Francis. I suppose that garden is always in bloom. For dinner, a nice fajita spread. Under Francis’ watchful eye, Myet prepared the custom decorated, strawberry, lemonade, seltzer special drinks. With umbrellas! Amanda, who works at a research facility, brought a few flats of just-picked organic blackberries and blueberries. I think Robin and Judy didn’t move from the kitchen counter for about an hour. It’s all Eddie’s house and yard. We’ll be here for a while
The part we need has been located; that’s not a problem. The repair shop can’t get the engine completely fixed before the long 4th of July weekend though. That would put us out of the coach for days. No point in starting work now and putting us in a hotel for all that time. Instead, we’ll stay in the nice RV Park we’re in and wait until Monday to start on the engine. They should be able to fix it in a day or two, so we shouldn’t have to hotel it for very long. As we are wont to say, plans change. We’ll figure out another time to visit with Rick and Sherrie at their place north of Bend. To make up for missing our camping trip with Jeff and Carol at La Pine State Park, we just spent the afternoon and evening with them at their house in Salem. Next after that is a visit to our coach’s ancestral home in Bend to take care of that mystery rattle/clunk we’ve been puzzling over for the last couple years. They built the coach, they should be able to find the rattle/clunk. The Bend shop is still on the calendar… so far. Plans change and so do we. Happy July everyone. 