May 9th

First of I would like to wish all the MOM's out there a very Happy Mothers Day!!!
Today we took our time getting moving this morning, retirement is a rough life.  After having breakfast and walking the dog's we headed out for Ilwaco to see what is going on at the Farmers Market.  There was not much fresh food but we did find some asparagus that was a good price, it was good with dinner tonight.

 There was a lot of artist showing there wears, and some food vendors also.  What I couldn't help noticing was how empty the boat basin was.

  In another month this place should be hopping with more fishing boats.  We priced the crabs and they are up to over $10.00 a pound now.  I still have shrimp in the freezer, so I will skip the crab for now.  After walking around the water front here we headed out for our favorite place to get sea food, Oysterville. It is on the Willabay Bay side of Long Beach.  One of the things that make this place so interesting is the old homes that are here.

 This is the oldest chruch on the peninsula.  Here are some of the homes you can see here.

 They keep these homes looking so good.

While we are here we might as well get a couple of pounds of butter clams, they are so good.  They will go good with the asparagus we bought earlier today. They have Oysters also but today we are just getting the butter clams.  I want to let you know they were good for dinner tonight.

On our way back Spike is getting along with us real good.

Spike and Turbo each like looking out the window while we are heading down the road.

After a rough day the pup's are dog tired, and take advantage of Cyndy.  Well time to finish this so I can finish watching the rain delayed race tonight, GO KANE!!!!

May 8th

What a beautiful day we had today, woke up to clear sky's and warm weather.  The only problem here at the Longbeach TTN is when it is warm and no wind, the mosquitoes seem to find you very quickly.  But before you knew it the wind starts to blow a little and those little devils disappeared.
Spike and Turbo are getting along real good, Turbo knows he is the boss and Spike just follows him around peeing on everything that Turbo pees on.  We were wondering if Spikes barker was removed because he had not barked yet.  Well today while over at Brian & Rita's he was outside and started barking at the neighbors dogs.  It was funny watching him, every time he barked his hole body jumped.
While over at Brian & Rita's today she wanted me to try and get the pictures off her old computer, because it is about to die. So after about an hour of fighting with it I finally got all the pictures copied to a CD for her.  Now it is time to see if I can save it.  Now this laptop is almost 10 years old.  First I tried to hook up to the wireless router. For some reason I could find the router but still not able to get out to the internet.  Brian's computer hooks up with no problem and I even got our phones to hook up to it also.  They had taken it to a computer geek (which I am not or even try to be) and he said the hard drive is about to die.  He then tried to get them to buy a new laptop.  My though is (and this is what I said) Buy a new laptop and use this one for a boat anchor, Rita wasn't to happy with my thoughts, even when I called it a stupid computer.  She said, am I calling her stupid and I said no, just the computer.
While at Brian & Rita's today Brian asked if we would like to go out for prime rib dinner tonight.  He also said it was a good price, $11.00 per pound.  Lets do it, were are we going to eat at, he said we will eat here, but we have to go up to Thriftway's Deli. He said it is good and we have to be their before 4:30 or it will all be gone by 5:00.  So at 4:00 we headed up to the store here in Ocean Park.  We were the first in line and by 4:30 there was at least 15 people waiting in line.  They have specials everyday.  So for $15.00 I got a nice big piece of prime rib and a nice big order of baby red potato's.  This fed both Cyndy and I with nothing left over, what a great meal.
We got back to the coach and both of the dogs are sleeping,  They played hard with Brian & Rita's dogs.  It looks like Spike is going to work out real good in this family.  Tomorrow we are going down to Ilwaco for there farmers market.

May 7th

Every once in a while we all have something happen to us that just fry's my patience and today it happened again.  How offend do we go to professionals and expect them to do the job we pay for.  Well today, was one of those times. We took the truck to the Ford Dealership in Astoria, OR to have the truck serviced.  Now when I take the truck in for servicing I expect to get the oil changed number one.  Then there is checking the rest of the fluids and topping them off if any of them are low.  In my day servicing also meet getting a grease gun and greasing all the fitting that are on the vehicle.  Well today after they so called serviced  my truck, I do my regular check, oil OK, fluids look OK, what do you mean no greasing done on grease fitting.  Now I am a little up set, no really up set.  This is the second time in a row that this has happened in the last two services that I have had done by Ford Dealerships.  Why can't people do there job!!!
OK on to better things, I have burned that bridge to long all ready.  Today we went to pick up Spike!!!  He is something else.  Him and Turbo are getting along pretty good.  When we take them out for a walk one pees then the other one is right behind peeing in the same spot.  He is still a little skittish but getting better.  as you can see.

We picked up a bed for him from the shelter and Spike has taken it over as his bed. We got some pain med's for him so he doesn't hurt you know where.  He seems to be getting along with us.

 They are both just laying around and getting some well deserved rest.

May 6th

Yesterday we went out for a ride and ended up at a Animal Control & Shelter.  Now you ask why would we do something like that?  Lately when ever we go to our friends Brian & Rita's Turbo and there new dog just play and play.  So we though maybe Turbo needs a brother of sister to have as a companion.  The first dog that we picked, I should say we are looking for another Chihuahua. Anyway the first dog was not very social with Turbo.  We were about to leave when they brought this little guy out.

He is just 9 months older than Turbo and a little bit smaller and they got along pretty good.  So after holding him for a while we went what the hell one more can't be that hard.  So we filled out the papers and paid a small fee and he is ours as soon as he gets NURTURED, yep lose his manly hood!!!   We will pick him up tomorrow and bring him home with us.

Turbo is being Turbo laying around and sleeping and taking us up on our laps anytime he can.  All I have to say is Turbo you need to go out and he beats me to the door.
We did our final cabinet or should I say pantry going through today.  Everything is some what organized the best we can for now.  We are both real happy with the way this coach is turning out.
Went down and got my clam digging licence today.  It has been over 7 years but I am going to give it a try tomorrow.  The next 4 days there is clam digging tides here at Longbeach and I might as well try and get a few.

May 4th

We would like to say Happy Anniversary to US!!!!
It has been 41 years together through thick and thin, rough and smooth times, along with ups and downs.  We have been blessed with two wonderful kids, a great son in-law and a great daughter in-law, and 5 super grandchildren.   It has been fun this last 7 plus years traveling all over this great land that we call the United States.  I think the best part is Cyndy & I are really loving the life style we have chosen to see this country of ours.
Anyway I wanted to take Cyndy out to our favorite place to eat while out here on the coast.

 This picture was taken out the window that we are sitting in front of.  Let me show you one more picture and I bet you can guess where we are at.

If you look behind us that is the Hay Stack Rocks in Cannon Beach, and yes we are at Mo's!!!!  We both enjoy the food from here.

Our favorite is clam chowder, but I think I make a little bit better clam chowder though.  Yes, and we had shrimp cocktail too.  We had a great dinner and really enjoyed ourselves.  Now time to head back across the bridge to Seaview, but fist we might as well stop and pick up a few things we need from Fred's as long as we are in Oregon (no TAX's).  We got back home just before the storm that is coming in started to dump some rain.  I hope it is just a light rain.  Tomorrow I don't know what we will do, but we will find something to do even if it is wrong.

May 2nd

Today was a busy day of working on our new coach.  First off I need to eat breakfast before a hard day of work.  At least that is my reason for eating a big breakfast.  Now that breakfast is over, it is time to get busy on the surge protector installation.
First I have to empty the storage bay so I can get to the compartment where I will be installing the surge protector.  After looking at what tools I would need I went in to start taking it a part.  Wait a minute got to disconnect the power first, so crawl out and do that now.  OK that is one trip in and out, do I have everything before heading under their one more time.  After about 30 minutes of taking things apart and putting them back together I crawled out and went and turn the power on.  The breaker didn't pop, so must of did something right.  Yep, another good job if I say so myself.  Now all I have to do is cut down some wood to make the storage area a little bit bigger in the storage compartment.  I don't know why they didn't use that space but we will.  I figure the Christmas stuff can be but in there.
Now on to the next project, as you may remember we had just got a new mattress that both of us just love.  So when we got this rig it had a king size bed in it, they took that mattress out and put ours in.  The only problem is the plywood frame is a little bigger than our mattress.  So time to cut it down, with Cyndy's help we got that project done with know problems.  Cyndy cleaned up all the dust and I took the tools back out.
Two down and one to go, we ordered a new cabinet to put the printer in.  With Cyndy's help we put it together in just over and hour.  Looks pretty good and the printer even fits in it.

The color matches the rig really good, this will work real good for our printer and computer stuff.

As you can see the printer fits real good.  The both of us are beat and just looking forward to sitting back and relaxing tonight.  Tomorrow we might go out Geocaching for something different to do.

May 1st

We have been having some great weather here in Longbeach.  Cyndy and I have been very busy getting use to the new coach.  She has been busy going through cabinets and looking at what we have and more stuff is going out.  She is doing a great job.  I have been busy putting up a couple of towel hangers in the bathroom.  I have also been staying out of Cyndy;s hair when she is emptying cabinets and reloading them.  A lot safer for me, but there when she needs me.
Yesterday with the sun out Turbo even wanted to be out of the rig when Cyndy was busy.

I got this picture of him soaking up the sun shine.

I got that look from him, what are you doing?  I was busy out side getting some things done, don't know what but it must of been importance.
About 3:00 PM yesterday I asked Cyndy with the sun out so nice you want to go for a ride in the RZR.  We can head down the beach and kind of enjoy the sun shine and sights.

 As you can see the sun was out but it was still a little cool.  Cyndy is all bundled up!!!!

Oh you want a picture of me, how is this, I am looking at you now.  The beach was great and not to many cars out on it.  We are hoping to make a few more trips out in the weeks to come.

We seen a few eagles as we drove up and back on the beach.

Turbo likes sitting up on the couch and enjoying the sun that comes through the windows.  This is our sun dog.
Tomorrow I will install the surge protector that I took out of the other coach.  I took a good look at it the other day and it should be about an hour or two job.  Depending on how many trips in and out of the compartment I make.  Cyndy will be busy working on her kitchen.  Turbo will be enjoy the sun if he can find a place to lay and stay out of every ones way.