SUMMER IN WESTPORT

 

THE CALENDAR SAYS SUMMER, BUT IT HAS CONTINUED TO RAIN AND BE COOL. FOLKS AROUND HERE SAY IT'S BEEN A COOL SPRING AND SUMMER, SO FAR. MOST DAYS ARE IN THE LOW 60'S. ONE DAY WE DECIDED TO CHANGE THE LIVING ROOM AROUND......AND LOVE IT!!! IT MAKES THE LIVING ROOM LOOK SO MUCH LARGER AND IS VERY CONVENIENT.

LATE ONE AFTERNOON, THERE WAS A KNOCK AT THE DOOR, PAM, ONE OF THE WORKAMPERS SAID EVERYONE WAS GETTING TOGETHER......DID WE WANT TO JOIN THEM?

 

 

IT WAS ONE OF THE NICER DAYS....SUN SHINING.....

 

 

IT WAS A FUN TIME!!

 

THE WASHINGTON CHEERIES HAD RIPENED....THEY WERE SO GOOD!!

 

 

ALOT OF THE CHEERIES CAME OUT OF YAKIMA, WASHINGTON. THE ONES WE HAD WERE LARGER AND SWEETIER THAN ANY I HAVE HAD IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

 

THE LAST WEEKEND IN JUNE, ELMA, WASHINGTON, A SMALL TOWN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ABERDEEN, HELD A CITY WIDE GARAGE SALE. WE WENT OVER EARLY FRIDAY MORNING.

 

 

WE BOUGHT A FEW THINGS, SOME BOOKS.

 

 

THE WHOLE TOWN TURNED OUT FOR THIS!! ONE OF THE CHURCHES HAD ITEMS  FOR SALE AND FOOD.  I ORDERED A CUP OF COFFEE AND GOT THE COFFEE AND A MUG FREE!!!! THIS COMMUNITY HALL ALSO HAD FOOD AND ITEMS FOR SALE.

 

 

ON THE WAY HOME, I GOT A FEW SHOTS OF ABERDEEN.

 

 

 

 

LOTS OF WATER AROUND ABERDEEN.

 

 

 

IT'S A PRETTY SMALL TOWN, BUT THE CLOSEST ONE TO WESTPORT THAT HAS ANY KIND OF SHOPPING AND PLACES TO EAT. WE HAVE DECIDED THAT WE ARE BIG CITY FOLKS, WE MISS OUR SUPER WALMART.

DEE SMITH CALLED AFTER WE GOT HOME AND ASKED IF I WANTED TO GO WITH HER,  AS HER GUEST, TO A MASTER GARDENER SUMMER GARDENING WORKSHOP IN ABERDEEN THE NEXT DAY. I SAID, "YES!". SHE IS ONE OF THE LADIES I MET IN CHURCH, THAT IS ALSO A MASTER GARDENER.

 

 

EVERYONE WAS SO NICE AND WELCOMING!! ONE OF THE PRESENTATIONS WAS ON WASHINGTON WEEDS, I GOUND THAT VERY HELPFUL!!

FOR YEARS I HAD WANTED TO TRY GEOCACHING, AND ONE DAY I WENT ONLINE TO  FIND OUT MORE ABOUT IT. I SAW THAT WESTPORT HAS QUITE A FEW HIDDEN, SO I DOWNLOADED THE $9.99 GEOCACHE AP TO MY IPHONE.

 

 

ONE AFTERNOON WE WENT GEOCACHE HUNTING. WE DIDN'T HAVE FAR TO GO....AND WE FOUND OUR FIRST ONE RIGHT AWAY!!

 

 

DARRELL FOUND IT......IT WAS IN PLAIN SIGHT....BUT, IT'S PRETTY SMALL.

 

 

I WAS EXCITED!!! IT WAS FUN!!!

 

SO, ON TO THE NEXT ONE......

 

DARRELL FOUND THAT ONE TOO, IT WAS PRETTY EASY TO FIND....BUT YOU HAD TO BE TALL TO SEE IT AND REACH IT.

 

 

WHILE WE WERE LOOKING FOR THIS ONE,  THERE WAS A MAN TAKING PICTURES...HE WAS SO EXCITED....HE POINTED OUT A SHIP  THAT WAS COMING INTO THE HARBOR. HE TOLD US THIS WAS THE LADY WASHINGTON, THE SHIP USED IN THE MAKING OF THE PIRATES OF CARRIBBEAN.

 

 

AND THAT IT HAD NOT BEEN IN WESTPORT FOR A YEAR.

 

 

I FOUND THIS POSTCARD DOWNTOWN, WHICH TELLS THE HISTORY OF THIS SHIP.

LADY WASHINGTON IS A REPLICA OF THE SQUARE-RIGGED VESSEL THAT BROUGHT CAPTAIN GRAY ON HIS HISTORIC VISIT TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEARLY TWO CENTURIES AGO. THIS IS ACLOSER UP  PICTURE THAN MINE.

 

 

THE LAST GEOCACHE TREASURE WAS IN WESTHAVEN STATE PARK.

 

 

JUST ANOTHER SHORT DRIVE. WE PARKED AND WALKED QUITE A WAYS. DARRELL STARTED SHOWING ALLERGY SYMPTONS....RUNNY NOSE, SNEEZING, HE WAS PRETTY MISERABLE. WE THINK THIS IS THE CULPRIT.

 

THIS IS SCOTCH BROOM AND IT IS EVERYWHERE......THIS LINED THE WALKWAY  TO THE GEOCACHE.

WE LOOKED AND LOOKED FOR THIS ONE.

 

ONCE, WE THOUGHT WE HAD FOUND IT.....

 

 

THE HINT WAS: "DON'T FORGET TO LOG IT IN."

 

 

THERE WERE ALOT OF LOGS!! THE I PHONE SHOWED THAT WE WERE WITHIN 5 FEET OF IT, WE KNEW IT HAD TO BE UNDER ONE OF THESE LOGS....BUT NO LUCK!!! SADLY WE NEVER FOUND IT!!

BUT, WE ENJOYED WATCHING THE SURFERS.

 

 

 

HOPEFULLY WE CAN COME BACK SOON AND TRY AGAIN!

 

ANOTHER THING WE DID THIS SUMMER WAS REDISCOVER THE JESSE STONE MOVIES. WE FOUND THEM AT BIMART IN ABERDEEN AND ENJOYED WATCHING EVERY ONE OF THEM.