Before I instruct on , I require to tell you lot the most of import news. There was only plenty fourth dimension earlier completing my packing yesterday to destination the hand-quilting on Mumm's the Word. Excuse me for only a 2nd piece a boundary for joy.
It was fast on its way to becoming "The Thing that Wouldn't Leave" inwards my sewing room. Now , all that's left is the binding. I tin hardly hold off to instruct habitation in addition to destination this 1 off 1 time in addition to for all.
We had an uneventful trip upwardly to Lake Mayfield...always a practiced thing. It's nigh an hr from our household to the Oregon-Washington edge where 1 crosses the drawbridge known equally the "Interstate Bridge" (that's I-5) over the Columbia River.
About three-fourths of the way across the span , you lot run into the sign telling you lot you're entering the State of Washington.
Another 66 miles upwardly the route , nosotros plough E on USA Hwy 12 in addition to caput for Lake Mayfield. I took this adjacent moving-picture exhibit to tell you lot that Spiffy's eating theater has variety of a exceptional identify inwards our hearts. Because we've been coming to this lake for decades , nosotros yell back when Spiffy's was zero to a greater extent than than a road-side stand. They are also a bakery in addition to they receive got the most amazing cinnamon rolls. They've been a large Denny's-style eating theater for a long fourth dimension , but nosotros e'er instruct a yen for their delicious cinnamon rolls every fourth dimension nosotros overstep by. And this time...we did overstep by.
Of course of written report , I took pictures of barns all along the way. If you're novel to this weblog , you lot should know that when you lot go amongst me , you lot run into a lot of barns.
Also , at diverse spots along the way , 1 tin instruct a glimpse of Mt. Rainier. Mt. Rainier is a huge mount in addition to it's also designated a national park. It is , yet , surprisingly hard to run into it practically until 1 drives correct upwardly to the gates of the national park. Nevertheless , I caught this paradigm of it. It's then large , nosotros tin run into it from our household , roughly 200 miles away.
When nosotros arrived , nosotros permit the kitties out of their kennels correct away. They were fine , but they were inwards full-on escape mode. Smitty genuinely escaped out the door 1 time , but when he got exterior , he looked completely confused realizing he wasn't at home. Then , he turned tail in addition to ran for the door of the camper. I dubiousness he'll hold upwardly running out again.
Little Sadie has poorer judgment , yet , in addition to then we're watching her similar hawks , getting a practiced travelling steal on her whenever nosotros opened upwardly the door. As extra insurance , nosotros receive got a squirt bottle stationed exterior then nosotros tin squirt her dorsum if we're trying to instruct within in addition to she's at that spot trying to instruct out. Think of it equally a mini-fire-hose treatment. We haven't had to role it yet , but nosotros will. Oh yes. We will.
As an aside , I receive got an twenty-four hr menses of the month to receive got her microchipped when nosotros instruct home. Smitty already has a chip , in addition to I've re-registered him in addition to paid for a year-long maintenance contract amongst 24PetWatch.com. Unfortunately , Sadie volition hold upwardly amongst a unlike companionship , but it volition go only the same. We'll also hold upwardly putting collars on them amongst tags indicating their microchip numbers in addition to a telephone expose to telephone telephone the associated companies. It seems extra insurance for when nosotros brand our multi-state trip this fall.
Eventually , the kitties settled into nap manner , in addition to immediately all is mostly well. They'd soundless similar to escape , I think , but they are to a greater extent than relaxed. They've eaten , had a imbibe , used their potty box , scratched at their scratching pad , in addition to explored all the nooks in addition to crannies , in addition to to a greater extent than frequently than non given the identify a 1 time over. I know they receive got some things they desire to tell you lot , in addition to then I'll give them a adventure to write a weblog ship service a fiddling later.
We had a fiddling problem amongst the covert on the catio window. In the 5th cycle , the window in addition to covert slide to the side , in addition to then it works only fine. With this novel window inwards the camper sliding upwardly , yet , the covert doesn't desire to remain inwards place. The Resident Engineer is going to fashion a claw for it from a wire coat hanger when nosotros instruct home. For immediately , a prophylactic spatula is working good to prop it up. This solution brought to you lot past times the Kitchen Engineer.
Here's a satellite paradigm of the surface area where nosotros are. We're inwards the fiddling town of Harmony , Washington. You tin run into Lake Mayfield correct inwards the middle of the image.
We're inwards a beautiful lakeside spot. This is the persuasion through the window from our tabular array this morning.
There is a steep embankment in addition to a fence. Just on the other side of the ground , at that spot are wild currants growing. These genuinely grow all over this surface area , in addition to then fifty-fifty though these are out of achieve , at that spot are plenty all about the campground.
Overhead...tall trees. Being a armed forces brat , nosotros traveled dorsum in addition to forth across the terra firma many times inwards a fiddling tiny camper trailer. I never experience to a greater extent than at habitation than when I expect upwardly in addition to run into this sight.
Only immediately , I'm amongst my sweety of many years. He was eighteen in addition to I was xvi when nosotros met , which way we've known 1 some other for 47 years. He wasted no fourth dimension planting his butt inwards his lawn chair , cool imbibe inwards hand.
This is his view.
Smitty was none equally good happy nigh beingness excluded from cocktail hr , a fourth dimension he to a greater extent than frequently than non spends amongst us when we're at home.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fiddling subsequently on , nosotros walked to where our boat trailer is parked. Mike needed to instruct a quick-release claw off the trailer , which I'll explicate inwards a minute. Along the way , nosotros noticed the lovely gardens inwards this commons , including this hibiscus. I wouldn't think these would grow inwards our cool climate , but at that spot you lot go.
Also , this blooming yucca found putting on its most spectacular exhibit of the season.
Upon check-in , nosotros were told that the homo who lived her in addition to tended these gardens for 35 years passed away recently. Now at that spot is a novel gardener who's exclusively been hither a twain of months. Apparently the gardens aren't equally pretty equally they commonly are , but they seemed beautiful to us.
Our 21-foot boat (the 1 inwards the middle on the left) has exclusively a 14-foot skid where it's docked. Mike did a fiddling flake of rope engineering to protect it from banging against the dock. Now , nosotros tin only throw off the ropes in addition to drive away , but he wanted a quick-release claw from the trailer for the bow. He was attaching it when I took this adjacent picture.
Looking left , this is what you lot run into from where I'm standing.
Looking correct , this is what you lot see.
On the way dorsum to the camper , nosotros saw this fiddling cottontail.
We slept good final nighttime , fifty-fifty though the kitties were a fiddling restless. Someone's auto warning went off inwards the middle of the nighttime , in addition to it took them a infinitesimal to instruct it nigh off. How embarrassing. Glad it wasn't us. Smitty got nether the covers in addition to slept correct beside me , only similar at home.
Today's agenda is thus:
6. Go boating.
7. Have lunch.
8. Take after-lunch nap.
9. Go boating.
10. Have dinner.
11. Be lazy.
12. Go to bed.
As you lot tin run into , at that spot is soundless much left on today's to-do list. Time to instruct going if we're to jibe it all in.
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