Winchester Bay

The view from outside our door

The first trap that I pulled this morning...nothing but babies and mommas

A momma...unfortunately she had to go back to make more babies

I took this picture on our last full day at Camp Cascadia...Mittens last
day of hunting in the jungle...at least for a while. She's not all
that happy right now!

We made it to Winchester Bay, even though it is only for three days. We came for the crab and were not disappointed. Since we had to be here early this year, and my water taxi has yet to arrive, I am forced to crab off of the docks. The first day turned out to be pretty good as I got six crab off the docks. I have to admit, they aren't big and huge and full of meat but, after Cecile and Pat picked the meat, we ended up with over a pound of pure crab meat. It was enough to have crab and cheese on triscuit tonight and tomorrow we will have some crab on english muffins. Hopefully tomorrow will bring me as good luck as today. It made it worth while to drive over here.

Ain't life grand!!

Family Visit to Camp Cascadia

WR and Dad...he loves the clapping

WR and Mom

WR and Grandma Cecile

WR and Janice...OK where's my shirt?

Three generations...WR, Dad & Grandma

WR brought his mom & dad to see us at Camp Cascadia on Friday, and did he ever get a lot of attention. Cecile & Janice took turns holding, hugging and squeezing this adorable little baby while Gary & Ken just made stupid faces at him to make him smile. Making him smile is not hard as he is a very happy, good-natured baby. Even while he is teething he can still manage a lot of smiles.

It was a beautiful day so we sat outside most of the time and visited. We did manage to go inside so that the ladies could trounce on us in a few games of Pegs & Jokers. When evening came, Ken & Janice treated us to a dutch oven cooked meal of lasagna, sourdough bread and fresh berry cobbler. Nobody went away hungry. We were sad to see them have to go back home but we had a great visit!

Ain't life grand?

We are sad to say that we are leaving here on Monday. It was a fun seven weeks. We will stop in Cottage Grove (about 75 miles to the south) to visit with some good friends and then head on over to the coast for a few days of crabbing and visiting with our friend Pat. Then we head south, back into California. We have to be in Burlingame on Sep 26 to start working on opening the pumpkin and tree lots. We might try to make it to Park Sierra for a few days to change versions of our stuff but that's still up in the air.

Quilt Top Finished

The ladies worked very hard on this top, plus, Cecile even got the iron out and used it!!

They did it. Cecile and Janice were a little concerned that they would not finish the quilt top before it was time to leave but, working as a well-oiled machine they are, they finished it yesterday afternoon. Now it's on to Coarsegold for some more work. It is amazing how much work is involved in making a quilt.

The quilt is being made out of all the funky, colorful shorts that David's mother made him over the years, and were his trademark while he was going to school. David's mother would be proud that they are still going to some good use.

Ain't life grand?

The Latest at Camp Cascadia

Janice working on the quilt for David

Part of their quilting work

Cecile actually ironing!
Joni, you can be proud!

We're starting to change our focus here at Camp Cascadia. Ken & Janice will be leaving on Monday to visit family and we will also head out on Monday to either go crabbing at Winchester Bay or head on down to Coarsegold and do our fall transfer of stuff. Either way, this means a little packing, a little last minute stuff to do for pegs & jokers and some work on a quilt that Cecile & Janice are working on.

I have spent the last couple of days working on the pegs & jokers website...even getting up at 4:00am this morning to upload the majority of the files to the site. It's easier to do at that time because there are far fewer people online to slow down the upload progress. The website address is www.pegs-and-jokers.com

We're sad to have our summer at an end and to be leaving Camp Cascadia but we go away with more good memories...lots of hard work, lots of good meals and lots of pegs & jokers games.

Ain't life grand?