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Wiener Roast on the Beach
Something we’ve always wanted to do is build a campfire on the beach. The weather was really nice in the middle of the week, so I suggested we take an armful of firewood down to the beach one evening to have a wiener roast and watch the sunset. The wind was pretty brisk, so the kids dug a hole in…
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Let’s Go Fly a Kite
The weather has cleared off here on the coast. We are privileged to enjoy clear blue skies and sunshine yesterday and today… and for the rest of our time here, if the weather predictions are accurate. Yesterday we bought a kite to take to the beach. The wind was perfect. No trees around to get tangled in. As long as…
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Redwood Forests
It’s rainy and damp today here on the coast. It’s supposed to clear off tomorrow, I think. Rather than spending the day cooped up in the trailer, we decided to drive south about 50 miles to see the redwoods of northern California. As always, the trees are majestic and beautiful. I loved driving through the misty forests in the off-season.…
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Multnomah Falls
In the summer when we came to Oregon we weren’t able to stop at Multnomah Falls because the parking lot was full. That was disappointing, but probably just as well, because no doubt the observation deck and trail was as crowded as the parking lot. Yesterday when we stopped we practically had the whole place to ourselves. It was a…
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Fall Vacation
We had several business trips back in the spring, and quite a few day trips and weekend get-aways in the last couple of months. It seems like we’ve been on the go a lot, but we haven’t had a real vacation. Today we’re headed to the Oregon coast for a week. This time we’re taking the trailer, the kids, and…
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The Eldorado Courier
My grandparents and their children moved away from Eldorado, Oklahoma in 1958. Many of our relatives still lived there, so my grandparents had a subscription to The Eldorado Courier (pronounced “Elda-ray-duh Coo-yer”) to keep up with the happenings in their hometown. Sometimes Grandmother would include a clipping from the Courier in a letter to Mother when I was growing up. When I…
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The Home Demonstration Club Quilt
As far as I could tell, downtown Eldorado, Oklahoma only has two or three “inhabited” buildings. There is the community building, where we met for our family reunion Labor Day weekend… an apparently current insurance office… and across the street, the historical museum. All the other buildings are vacant. For such a tiny, dying town, the museum is quite impressive…
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Tater Mountain
When we came to the turn-off for the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma last Friday, Mother asked, “Do we want to take a detour and drive through there? We have plenty of time.” Uncle Carlton and I responded, “Yes!” in unison. Mother wasn’t quite sure it was the right road. “Yes, it is,” Uncle Carlton assured her. “See those…
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Labor Day Weekend
I had intended to micro-blog all weekend so my family (at least) could follow along with my adventures. But “the best-laid plans of mice and men…” and all that. I hadn’t realized there wouldn’t be a very good cell signal in the remote little corner of south-western Oklahoma where i spent the better part of the weekend. I did have…
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