And the weather is… the same

S’mores

For the benefit of you who live in parts of the world far removed from the Pacific Northwest, here is the latest weather report for our area: more of the same. “The same” meaning rain or showers or, at best, clouds with temps below normal. In other words we don’t know if this is a bummer summer or if summer hasn’t started yet. Still we note with glee that our heat index is not 129* nor are we in danger of floods or tornados or hurricanes or drought. We are, however, in danger of rusting.

That being said, we decided to have s’mores tonight. I fired up the barbecue (sitting on a board on a garbage can – remember we are temporary here) in the garage door opening (door is up!). Jana got HUGE marshmallows which squished out on all sides, got all over our fingers, lips, etc. None  of us looked very dainty but Lilly won the prize for “most messy.”

I got the prize for biggest mouth!

The Rally

Those of you who carefully follow the GeneandJoyce blog (now who wouldn’t? I can’t imagine!) you remember me telling about the RV Rally in Albuquerque two years ago. I think it was in April that year and it rained, snowed, sleeted, hailed, and all other things nasty. The Rally last year was in Louisville and we didn’t go. This year it was in Redmond, Oregon. We went. Part time. Last weekend. Because the kids were here and because we had a senior adult trip on Friday, Joyce and I got up real early Saturday morning, drove to Redmond, met Mike and Joanne, had fun Saturday and Sunday at the rally and drove home Sunday evening. Yes, we went to an RV Rally and stayed in a motel! It wasn’t cost effective to pull the fifth wheel over there. The rally was fun; the weather was okay.

This was our church Sunday morning.

Let me tell you about a fun aspect of our visit. Background first… Next Sunday Joyce, Jana, Ginger and I are teaching  Children’s Church. The theme for the summer is how our leisure time can be used for Jesus. We are going to teach about RVing and using some of our experiences as examples.  Okay, they always give away lots little freebies at these rallies so we got the idea to collect enough to give each of the kids something. Joyce wanted some of the Good Sam stickers to decorate the kid’s bags so she asked the lady if she could have a dozen or so and told her why. The lady gave her a bunch… plus some little repair kits, plus a tool kit. Joyce had her arms full; she found me and dumped the stuff in my bag. I went over the the display, talked to the lady and renewed my membership for three years (they were pushing a life time membership but I didn’t want to part with that much money right now). As a result she gave us a neat travel bag and then filled it with hats, visors, lanyards, and I don’t know what all. With the other pens, lanyards, fans, and what-not we collected, each child is going to get 5 or 6 things!

Seniors to Camp 18

Twenty-six senior adults left the church Friday morning for Camp 18 Restaurant and Logging Museum. It is an rustic-looking building made of logs with a lot old logging equipment on the grounds around the place. We had to car pool because the bus isn’t back yet from it’s overhaul but we still had fun.

I caught Jackie, Joyce and Margaret vying for the attention of this old man.

Our people are at the big table and the small one at the left rear.

Joyce and Don located Sasquatch and Don thinks there is a bullet hole in him.

Clark and Jack look over some of the old equipment.

Look at the size of  Eunice’s taco salad!

It was a good week. The end.

The Kids Are Here. Yea!

My goodness, how she has grown! From that little baby 6 months ago to chunky little gal, she certainly has her own personality. I took this picture last night so I could post a recent picture – otherwise you would be mad at me (huh, Suzie?)

They got here about 8:00 Saturday evening. Basically it was a good trip except that Jeyanthi developed a little diarrhea which made the last 3 hours about 4 very trying hours. She is doing better now. Next time I’ll post some pictures of the other kids doing something fun. So far we haven’t  done very much that is exciting.

Today Korak and I cleaned up all the suspicious (i.e. might leak) looking places on the RV roof and sealed all the seams with roof patch. (Remember last fall I posted that the roof leaked? I just covered it with a tarp and it has simply sat in the driveway looking rather neglected ever since). Anyway, I hope we got the leaky spot. Then we washed the Taylor car, the Mumau pickup, and the Mumau car. We’ll wash the RV tomorrow and rub on a coat of Gel-Gloss. Then it will be off to Ginger’s house to make some repairs to get it ready for sale.

You are just trembling to know about the house, aren’t you? Well…. we found out we will not close until August 1 OR LATER. Very disappointing but typical government. Since it is a foreclosure and since Bank of America cheated on a whole batch of foreclosures, every single one of them have to be reviewed and re-reviewed and re-re-reviewed. So Joyce and I are learning patience. It will happen. Eventually.

I worked today. I even barbecued hamburgers for dinner. I’m tired. I’m signing  off. Good  night.