Lake Oswego visit

Here's Grandma with WR

Daddy & his happy baby

The happy baby hamming it up for the camera

On Sunday, Cecile & I headed north to the Portland area for a visit with our son Bob, his wife Kati and their beautiful son WR. He has got to be one of the happiest, best-looking babies in the world. WR is getting close to the age where he will start crawling all over the place. Mom & Dad look out! We had a very nice, although too short, visit with them.

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Wooden Boat Show

Jim Cooper's very elaborate boat

A beautifully restored 1950's Chris-Craft

Another nice boat built from scratch

The Puddle Duck Racer-an inexpensive, surprisingly stable sailboat

On Saturday, Ken & I took a day off from work to go down to the Eugene area and attend a wooden boat show. Ken has always been interested in boats and is very interested in building his own boat so he was there to get some ideas. It was held at the Eugene Yacht Club on Fern Ridge Reservoir about ten miles northwest of Eugene. There were some beautiful boats on display there...some which were just displayed on the lawn and many others tied up on the water. It was put on by the COOTS which is a loosely knit group of f0lks interested in building boats from scratch. I was amazed at the work on some of these boats. One of the more elaborate boats was built by a fellow who doesn't even like the water...but he has a strong passion for building beautiful craft. Ken was in heaven surrounded by all these boats and has future plans to build one of his own. It was an interesting morning.

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Welcome to Camp Cascadia

Our Rig and campsite at Camp Cascadia

Camp Cascadia

Looking down the road...now this is really rural!

Laundry central...hope they still let us do our clothes after the building sells!

Since Cecile and I have been here for ten days, it's probably about time we made a post on the blog. I have been very bad about updating this.

This is our second year staying up here with our friends Ken & Janice and we still love coming back. The night's are quiet and dark, great for sleeping...Ken & Janice are great people to just hang out with...and they have a great shop & art studio for working on projects. Last year we decided that we would make sets of pegs & jokers games to sell and give to friends as presents. We spent half of our time here last year coming up with designs and production methods and ended up making close to fifty sets. This year our goal was going to be 150 sets and we are now well on our way. We had some wood left over from last year and together with wood that Gary bought in California, we have the materials here to make around 80-90 sets. We already have about fifty sets in various stages of production...and we still are having fun!

Lou and Judy Stoetzer came by to visit us this week. They have had a lot in Park Sierra for a long time but just recently bought a place in Salem Oregon. It was great to see them and Janice even convinced them to learn how to play pegs & jokers.

Today was our day off...the one day of the week when we go to town and shop, do laundry, eat a couple of meals out, go to Wal-Mart, etc. We absolutely need one of these every so often.

This coming Saturday, Ken and Gary are going to the Eugene area for a wooden boat show and to do a little supply shopping. I will post photos of that trip when we return. More later!

Ain't life grand?