Pictures from our Tuesday beach trip
Videos from the beach
Baxter throws sand in the water, and Amelia jumps waves.
Great fun with the PDX Broadsides at Ardenwald Park
We had a blast tonight at the last Thursday night event in the Ardenwald Summer Concert Series, listening to the geek-filk band called PDX Broadsides. Here’s part of their first number, “Aim to Misbehave,” which references Firefly and Capt. Mal Reynolds. Usually the kids and I pay some small attention to the band at theseContinue reading “Great fun with the PDX Broadsides at Ardenwald Park”
“Do I look like Obi-Wan Kenobe?”
Pizza with summer sausage, mushrooms, and oil-cured olives
Wondering what to do with leftover summer sausage? It’s great on pizza!
Fun at Oaks Park
Chicken sausage, green beans with brown butter, plus leftover rice and kale
Leftovers for me; mac and cheese for the kids. Green beans with brown butter, where have you been all my life??
Happy happy beach time
We found a stretch of beach we liked, actually in the mouth of the Columbia River, with a nice amount of wet and dry sand, plenty of wind, and not many people. The sun kept the wind from freezing us the death, and the great volume of wind made kite flying a serious occupation. OfContinue reading “Happy happy beach time “
Fort Clatsop is teh amaze.
The historical reinactment and lectures at the replica of Fort Clatsop, where Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery spent the winter of 1805-1806, are FANTASTIC! You should definitely go.
Baxter and Mimi drive into WWI
Enjoying the vehicles at historic Fort Stevens.
What’s a family trip without a car nap?
I conned Baxter into catching 40 winks by driving him around the 3,800 acres of Fort Stevens this afternoon. It’s less guilt-inducing in the Prius. The rest of the family was enjoying more of Fort Clatsop. More about that later.
The Thing With The Stuff 