What to do on a rainy Sunday?

Build a 8'x2' raised bed garden! Why not right? That’s what we decided to do yesterday. 

Nothing major, but a fun little Sunday project. Here are some pics from the day.

Bend or bust...

Last week we took advantage of a couple of vacation days and headed about 3 hours southeast of Portland to Bend. Bend is a really cool high desert town on the eastern cascades right at the base of Mt Bachelor and a number of other peaks. The great thing about Bend in the winter is that you can mountain bike on dry trails east of town or head west into the mountains and play in the snow. There aren’t a whole lot of places that you can mountain bike, climb and or ski in the same day.

We took 3 pups with us – Maddie, Seppie and Cody – packed the camper on the truck and took off. The first two days were full of mountain biking. Another great thing about the area is that it is mostly surrounded by national forest or BLM land. We were able to find great places to camp both nights pretty far off the beaten path.

Enjoy the pics. There is also one video below… though we have not edited it at all but it is just a fun clip of what mountain biking with the dogs is like.

Mountain biking Horse Ridge

Lunch/nap time before riding another loop

We scored an amazing site to set up camp

Hangin' out

Dinner time

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Intently watching Wendy make breakfast

Looking out at the 3 Sisters

Morning coffee/hike

Lots of smells out here

Snowshoeing near Mt Bachelor

We capped it all off with a cupcake from Ida's Cupcakes

Here's the video. Not the best but...

Hope you enjoyed.

Peace,
All of us!

Beach Trip

Wow… we have been pretty bad about updating this blog! Life is keeping all of us very busy and once we get home, we tend to try to keep the computers off… except for playing music on Pandora.

We had a pretty special beach trip with the horses and dogs a few weeks back. Bobbie, Vince’s boss, came with us to ride Reno and happened to bring a really nice camera and her amazing photography skills. She got some great pictures. It was an amazing day – sunny and in the 50’s. Who would have thought for February in Oregon?

The pictures are much better than our creative writing so let’s get straight to the good stuff…

Maddie

 Sam

Empty pristine Oregon beaches are hard to beat.

Cody wore himself out chasing birds

Jumping drift wood

One of the best pics of the day

Sep man

Almost looking like I know what I'm doing

Bobbie and Reno

Beach + Horse = Happy Wendy

Vince might be pointing to the surf saying "I need a new wetsuit!"

Thanks for reading. We will once again try to keep this blog updated a little more frequently.

Peace,

All 14 of us.