July 23

We were really busy these last few days at work; they had drag races here in the sand all weekend.  I was surprised there were not more people here, but with the strong wind we have been having the sand is really soft.  They worked on the track all day Friday so that they could use it Saturday & Sunday.  Late Sunday afternoon I went up to the people that are running the track and asked if they were going to have anymore race weekends and the old guy said NO the sand is to dry for us to even use.   The guy seems to have a chip on his shoulder so I left that alone.  Oh well not everybody can be happy all the time, I hear he is this way all the time.

Today I decided to do some maintenance that I have been forgetting about for a long time.  It is the 5^th-wheel hitch in the back of the truck.  With all the sand that has been blowing around here the grease was collecting a lot of sand.  So I pulled it out of the truck and went through a full can of brake cleaner, which seems to cut the old grease pretty easy.  After about an hour of cleaning it was looking pretty good.  So I wrapped it up and put it under the work bench here in the shop until we get ready to leave here in September.

Cyndy and I even had time to go and watch a movie today.  It was the Lone Ranger; we thought it was pretty good.  Acting great, stunts out of this world, and it was downright funny.  Johnny Depp was great in this movie, but then I am not a movie critic, so I may not know what I am talking about.   

Tomorrow we are going to do a little Geocaching and learn some more back roads around here.

July 18th

The last three days have been just a blur, we decided on Sunday to go up to Washington and see the grand kids for our days off.   So Monday at noon we took off for Washington, which is only a 6 hour drive home.  That does sound like a lot, but it goes by fast when you know you are getting closer to the grand kids.  We stopped by both kids house Monday night and got our hug's from the kids then it was off to our temp housing at Dennis and Rose's.  They are the greatest and we Love them both a lot.  We have a lot of good times together.
Anyway we spent Tuesday with Jared for a while did a few doctors stuff and then went to Jared's house for dinner that night.  It was great to see then all again.  On Wed. Cyndy and Rose did there shopping trip in the morning.  I am glad I get tired of just looking at stuff and they both like doing that kind of thing.  Me I am more the type to just go and get what I need and get out of the store before they get any more of our money!!!!  Then in the afternoon we headed over to MJ's & Morgan's house to spend time with them.  Those two little ones really keep you on your toes.

 MJ is talking a mile a minute and PAPA has problems understanding her, but with a little help from mom I do pretty good, and Morgan is crawling all over the place and starting to walk just a little.  Mom & Dad can't wait for her to start walking, but I tell them enjoy it now because you can keep up with her.
Cyndy got all of her hug's and cuddles from the three grand kids we got to see, the other two stay with there mom and maybe when we are home in September they may come by, we hope.
Today we drove back here to Coos Bay and we had a great weekend visiting with our children and grand kids.  We tell our kids we didn't come to see them just the grand kids.  There the ones that need to be spoiled now, and we really like doing that.  Well back to work for 3 plus day then we don't know what we are doing on our next long weekend, maybe just lay around and rest!!!!!

July 10th

Today we thought we would go out and do a little Geocaching in the dunes.  When we left it was pretty good weather, but by the time we got to what they call Bull Run, it was starting to get a little windy.

This was an easy find, we dropped a bug at this one and we will keep an eye on this one to make sure it keeps moving.

I think we can make it over this one.

We found another cach just to the right of these trees, this lake seems to be growing every year.

The wind was really starting to pick-up so we did some motoring around and found these people out in the middle of the dunes.  We headed to the beach from here with a stop at the restrooms.

 Yep, Cyndy even drives the old sports car once in a while, as long as it is flat and no hills.

I don't know if you can tell, but this little drop is about 5 feet straight down, then it runs down hill.

These lakes that are in the middle of the dunes are drying up pretty fast now.

You know the wind is blowing hard when you see white caps on a little pond like this,  the wind was up over 25 MPH today .

We even seen this little guy wondering which way we were going to go, he finally went up the hill to the right.

We made it back in one peace with a lot of wind.  It has been blowing hard all day, and they say it will keep up for about another week or more.  Tomorrow we are going on a road trip Geocaching up to Florence, OR.  I think it must be time for a bowl of clam chowder.  Should have some good picture from this trip, never know what we might see.

July 9th

For last week we have been having some pretty good winds, up to 25 miles per hour from 1:00 Pm to about 10:00 PM at night.  One thing with the wind is that it keeps the sand nice and smooth for riding on, it also keeps the nits & mosquitos away.  Its funny when people come into the store and ask how much longer the wind is going to blow and we tell then enjoy it while it is blowing, because when it is not blowing the sand is rough and the bugs are eating you up!!!!
Today it was Cyndy and Turbo day at the spa, Cyndy got her nails done and she is happy again.  Remember if mom isn't happy no one is, and Turbo had his spa treat meet, nails, bath and all that other tings they do to dogs.  Me I just waited for them and picked them up when they were done.
After everyone was done we took a little road trip to Bandon for something to do.  Yes we left the camera at home again, one of these days I will just put it in the truck and leave it their.   We did find a great Mexican Restaurant to eat at, I think we were both looking for the same thing when we seen the restaurant.  It is kind of funny, here we are in a sea port town with all kinds of sea food around and we go to a Mexican Restaurant.  We then walked around the sea port of Bandon to wear of the lunch we just ate.

We did have our camera on our phones so we got a couple of pictures.  There are a lot of carvings all over the board walk.  Got Cyndy by this Sea Lion.

There must be about 30 of them all over the place.

Cyndy got one of Turbo & I .

We seen this Lighthouse Coquille River Lighthouse, we want to explore this area a little bit more so next time we come up this way we are bring our good camera.  There is also a place that we want to explore called Face Rock State Park.  Can't wait to see what that is all about.  It was getting late so we head back home and look forward to the next two days off and relaxing a little bit.

July 4th

HAPPY 4th of July to all of our friends, may we remember why we are celebrating this day of independents and thank a person today that is wearing that uniform for keeping us free!!!!
Today was another day to just take it easy.  I think I will back up a little to yesterday and tell you what we did.  Cyndy & I went to the movies.  It has been a while but well worth it, we seen "The Heat"  yes it is rated "R" and yes they us that word that I hate to hear my children us.  But it was done is some what of a comedy way about it.  I recommend see the movie it was great.  We kind of hung around the coach the rest of the day and watched the fireworks from our front door that the Mill Casino put on last night.  It lasted almost 20 minutes. 
Today we decided to head out and do a little geocaching.  We had a good day and seen some neat things traveling the back roads.

   Our first find was by this old boat left to rot away to nothing.  I would like to hear some of the stories this boat could tell.

We found another beached boat that has also been left to lay.  The stories they could tell, I would really like to find out what happened to this one.

This old barn was near another cach.  I think it may still be used, but I think the black berry's will take it over real soon!!!!

These flowers were really pretty by one of the caches that we found today.  In its log it say to bring a camera for some great pictures.  Well the cach was a camera hanging from a tree.  We did pretty good today, we started out looking for 12 caches and only found 8 of them.  Some have not been logged since March or April.  So I feel we did pretty good.
After a short lunch break we headed out to see if the Elk were at Dean Creek Elk viewing area.   About a month ago we got some fair pictures of elk.

 As you can see they are just starting to grow there antlers, and the grass is high.

As you can see in just a month they have grow a lot.  They were laying around and giving everyone a great show today.

As you can see all of them are growing pretty darn good, we will be back in couple of weeks to see what they look like then.  Tonight the town of Coos Bay is putting on a Fireworks display and we are hoping to be able to see it also from our front door.  Hope all of you have a safe fourth!!!!!

July 1st

Where did June go, it is hard to believe that it is already behind us.  Look out July we are going to make you last a day longer then June.  Cyndy and I have been trying to stay out of trouble the last couple of weeks.  We made a fast trip last week to Pismo, Ca to deliver a side by side and pick up 5 ATV’s and head back the next day.  If it wasn’t for getting paid for the trip I don’t think I would do it again.  It was really wet all the way down and back.  But when we got back to Oregon the weather started to change and now we have some nice warm weather.

We are hoping to get home this month for one of our weekends, but don’t know which one yet.  We have the next 3 days off and want to do a little Geocaching.  We did get out last Thursday and found 4 more caches so will try to build on that.  We have a bug that we forgot we had picked up in Salton City, so we are going to find it a new home this week.

Hope everyone is doing good, wish we could be at the Escapees Rally in Gillette, WY with all of our RV friends.  Next year we will plan on going.

June 20th

This weekend we went on a little journey.  We got off work on Monday about 1:00 PM, and off we went.  Our first stop was Florence, Oregon at the Fred Meyers for fuel.  Then it was off to I-5 and heading north.  We need to head back up to Spanaway for some Doctor Appointments that Cyndy had. 

We were hoping to miss some of the Portland traffic jam, but we ended up right in the middle of it.

The traffic is getting a little better, but it was stop and go untell we got to the Washington side of the Columbia River.  Then it opened up and we were back up to speed and getting closer to home.

The kids did not know we were coming home so we got to surprise them.  It was really funny; Cyndy called our daughter and asked to talk to Jared.  He got on the phone and Cyndy asked him how he liked his surprise in the mail, he really liked it.  SO Cyndy asked him if he would like another surprise and he said YAH!!!  Cyndy said why don’t you go to the front window and look outside.  He looked out through the window and had a big ear to ear grin, and started talking real quietly to Cyndy, asking if she was coming in.  Now Janice & Jeff couldn’t figure out what was going on when he was standing by the window and laughing.    They were all surprised and we had a good visit. 

Then we called our Jason and Lisa and asked them how things were going and we went through the same thing with them.  It was good to see all the grandkids and get our hugs in.

We got up early Tuesday morning and headed out to all of the doctor appointments, we only had 3 but it took almost all day.  We also got Cyndy drivers license renewed while home.  So by 3:00 PM we were heading back to see all of the kids one more time before we head out on Wednesday morning bright and early.

We spent the nights at Denny & Rose and had a good visit with them.

Turbo enjoyed Denny’s lap the most.  I don't know who was sleeping sounder!!!

We really wanted to thank Denny and Rose for putting us up for two night while we were there.  Yes, we did play and game of hand and foot and the girls won.

We got back down here late in the afternoon on Wednesday; it was nice to be back in our own bed.  Today all we did was nothing but get a few things at the store and just relaxed a little bit.  Tomorrow it is back to work for 4 days, then off for another 3 days.