We Made the Most of Summer!

We packed a lot in to finish off summer!

Canyon Lake on an early summer morning is beautiful!  We sure enjoyed touring the lake and throwing a line in occasionally.

See that Evinrude back there? Yeah, the black thing with white lettering.  Caused a ruckus that morning.  Seems as though a snake was somehow on that thing and came crawling out!  Yes, it was a little snake.  Yes, I screamed like a girl.  But guess what?  After we get home and researched the darn thing, it WAS poisonous!  So there – I was RIGHT to be afraid and scream!


Jack had a birthday!  He's such a squid lover.  And not just any squid - has to be a colossal squid.  He loved his cake!

At the end of August, we took out on an adventure.  Terry, Cathi, Dave and I headed to Oregon!  Everyone was anxious to go see brother Gail and we were really going to enjoy time out of the heat.  So much so that on a vote of 3 to 1 it was decided we would drive all night long and spend our first night in a hotel in northern California!!  (Yup, I voted no – who can really sleep in a car?!)  But we did make it to Redding, CA, shorting after noon the day after we left.  It was a nice little town.  It had this cool sundial bridge and we went there shortly before sunset.

We headed out the next day to Grants Pass, OR, to see our nephew, Ryan, and his family.  We toured the Fire Mountain Bead factory while we were there.  Sorry we didn't get a picture of Ryan – but we did of the rest of his family!  Loved spending some time with Cheryl, Luke, Asha and Chloe!

Coquille, OR, or more specifically, the road that Gail lives on is so green! You’ll have to believe me because I didn’t take one picture of the yard this time!  But I did take pictures of Gail’s grandkids and the fish the guys caught!

We had such a wonderful trip, but it’s so much more than you can put in one post!  Check out the next post – it will be all pictures, no words!!