For Anita B

Anita, how do you like these cows contently chewing their cuds?

(Footnote: For Becky Z. : this is where milk comes from!)

Deer

These visitors distracted us (me?) the first day I was helping Sarah paint. We had just started our first wall. I'm sure Sarah wondered what she would get out of me that day! Wonder how it will go with their landscape and gardening efforts?!

Becky Z's secret

I know Becky's secret!

More from the reunion

This is an up date -I forgot this one last night while working on the post!
Great-Aunt Karen aka Grandma with Linzee & Kaylee waiting for waves!

Here are some more from our reunion - hopefully you find them interesting and to you who couldn't make it maybe gives you a little more of a picture of what went on!

Auntie with all the youngest generation
Nolan, Dylan, Reagan, Izzak
Kaylee, Linzee, HannaH, Anna

These pictures got in here in the reverse order I had intended - again my techie skills at work!
Our family
(Sorry Helen I know this isn't the best of you)

Mabel's family

Karen's family

Carl's family

Dining out with the Gleason family in Portland
(Sorry I didn't get every one on here.)

In Portland with friends from years past - Myrna, Laurie & Linda

Shaun struggling to hold one of his catch!

Beauty and Sleeping BeautyIzzak and the ocean! Dylan and the sand!

This and that

Just a note to point out that I added a guestbook if any 'stopping by' would rather make a comment there than about a particular post. Thanks for all who have made comments - those who I've known from years past as well as more recent acquaintences and yes, Diane T. it is ok if you have a link to mine! I'll probably do the same with yours!

Family Reunion 2008

I wanted to add more pictures but my techie skills being what they are maybe this will be all for now!

As I'm working on this blog and trying to select pictures to include it came to me that we have just one remaining sibbling of both our parents and we saw them both at this time --
The four of us with AuntJessieUs four with Auntie Agnes

View from our balcony

This was at Yaquina Head where we 'land lubbers' 'stood in awe' but not for long as it was cold! It was inspirational - the light house, rocky coast and ocean and thousands of sea birds!

We are an equal opportunity family ...
Shaun cooking ....

Brian washing dishes!

Wheat Harvest continued

This will be just a couple comments about harvesting the wheat. We weren't here for most of the harvest - we just had one small field as it was - but we did get a couple pictures and it was good to take a few grains and eat them like we did as children at Uncle Harold's ..... guess we could go on with memories but will leave it at this for now.

Wheat Harvest

I'm going to try and show a couple pictures and video clips from the wheat harvest. These were taken the day before we left for the family reunion.

Family Reunion

This post won't have pictures as haven't gotten any of them on to my computer yet. We are back from the family reunion at Lincoln City, OR and now enjoying the memories. We had the weekend in Madison. We stayed with William and helped Theo and Sarah a little Saturday. Glad they are in their new house even if it isn't finished yet! Hopefully before long I can have some pictures up. Others who were there do have some up so if interested check out Becky Z or Shaun & Helen's blog.