Typically it's a weekly event from May to October, sometimes bi-weekly in Sept. Last cut this year was mid July... Yeah, Legs has it right about the popcorn - and his side is worse than here. At least this side we've been spared most of the fires.
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Typically it's a weekly event from May to October, sometimes bi-weekly in Sept. Last cut this year was mid July... Yeah, Legs has it right about the popcorn - and his side is worse than here. At least this side we've been spared most of the fires.
Good morning Fran .... need coffee, yes I do. 
Well Willie did you enjoy your concert last night? Did you get to meet up with Mr.Messina after? Or possibly still partaking, course I don't know if you old rockers still have the stamina for that. Maybe tear up the hotel room in an after party.
I don't figure he was ever that type, now Ozzie possibly. I wish I had listened to my dad when I had the chance. He always told me that the drugs and the booze would catch up with me someday but since I knew everything and was bulletproof figured it would never happen. WRONG!! Didn't really think I'd make it this long and would go out not knowing I was. Also wrong. Ahhh Hindsight. Well it was fun while it lasted I think.
You know @yiddleboge6 we used to have a clubhouse also, but where we were living was the boonies in those days. A guy had started builiding this huge 2 story place and must've run out of money, partially burned out but we made ramps to get to the 2nd story. Used to go up there with friends and tell stories, smoke cigarettes. Now it is Alderwood Mall a sprawling, huge commercial area. Wouldn't even be able to find the location now. Me and a good friend used to have campouts in an older mans little barn, lots of fun, in there with the hay and the horses making occasional visits all night. We'd pretend we were explorers in a hidden place and talk about all the stuff we would do when we got licenses and cars and girlfriends, pet the horses and give them some extra stuff to eat like the apples from the tree outside. Fun times, now the deadend we lived on is Alderwood Mall blvd, a 6 lane highway going to the mall. We'd ride horses on the I-5 roadbed that they were building the next day and go to a place we called the campground, probably about 50 acres with little 2 wheel roads and play hide and seek on horseback. Great way to spend a Sunday.
Ah the childhood memories...the summer my Dad and step-mother picked my sister and I up in Seattle when school had let out for the summer....headed to Winnipeg, to fulfill a promise to my Grandmother. We went north into Canada and were going to travel east by that route, but roads were so bad we dropped back down into the Dakotas and stopped to spend a few days with step-mother's relatives on their huge farm. Set out to wander and have fun with one of the other children. They had a big apple orchard and up we went climbing... A sudden cloud burst....pouring down hard, and afraid to come down because the cows were stampeding through the orchard to get out of it and back to the barn...water rising and flooding the orchard....not terribly deep, but we weren't coming down. Finally being rescued....scolded...dried off...and then treated to REAL homemade ice cream. I've never had ice cream that good again. Cream that had come from their cows and fresh fruit....
ETA: If I remember correctly...Calgary was when we decided to drop back down to the USA....Ultimate destination was Winnipeg
A sudden cloud burst....pouring down hard, and afraid to come down because the cows were stampeding through the orchard to get out of it and back to the barn...water rising and flooding the orchard....not terribly deep, but we weren't coming down. Finally being rescued....scolded...dried off...and then treated to REAL homemade ice cream. I've never had ice cream that good again. Cream that had come from their cows and fresh fruit....ETA: If I remember correctly...Calgary was when we decided to drop back down to the USA....Ultimate destination was Winnipeg
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Yep we made 3 trips up the Alcan highway, me and parents, that was when the Alcan was 1500 miles of dirt road. Wouldn't see a car for hours. Had to get gas everytime we hit a gas station. Some were 200 miles between, my dad had 2 5 gallon Gerry cans that were full also. Pretty wild trips. Here we are on the Alcan after a rainstorm and the mud.
Bug Screen on the front for the 1000s of mosquitoes also why we were dressed like that. Thats me and my mom trying to prop it so we wouldn't slide the rest of the way off the road.
Bug Screen on the front for the 1000s of mosquitoes also why we were dressed like that. Thats me and my mom trying to prop it so we wouldn't slide the rest of the way off the road.
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We saw 2 people up off the road wearing cooley hats so we stopped. It was 2 old sisters working this gold rocker. They wouldn't let us take pictures of them but they let us get this shot of me trying it, (actually swatting mosquitoes)
Ahh Legs..what glorious memories!
It's making me nostalgic!...
Churning homemade ice cream at Grandma's, riding horses bare-back, milking the cows ( stinky!!) chamber pots...outhouses...hand pumping water in the kitchen...BEST water!
Running all over the countryside from early morning till supper time... Most of us were so fortunate to be young people in those days...
It's making me nostalgic!...
Churning homemade ice cream at Grandma's, riding horses bare-back, milking the cows ( stinky!!) chamber pots...outhouses...hand pumping water in the kitchen...BEST water!
Running all over the countryside from early morning till supper time... Most of us were so fortunate to be young people in those days...
Last pic I promise. This was an old guy we met just out of Dawson City, Yukon Territory. He was 90 and still worked a claim under his cabin.
Notice the barrels to catch rain water. Back when it was clean.
Notice the barrels to catch rain water. Back when it was clean.
Took my first long stroll with hubby at European Village this morning after Church. Didn't do too badly but was glad to be home to cater to my sore tootsie!
Sheesh the Seattle game they didn't even bring the teams out till after the National Anthem.
Avoiding problems, hey?
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