It’s at least 2 full days’ work on the weekend for Justin and Tom. By Sunday night, 44 sprinkler heads were installed. The yellow flags are sprinklers for shrubs, orange for grass.

Justin has been working on sprinkler systems and landscaping projects since he was 7 years old and helping his dad. It’s his 33 years of experience that makes this project big and complicated, but not hard to figure out or execute.

Calvary Lutheran is a happy church. This was the one-year anniversary of Pastor Kirsten Moore’s arrival.

Driving home, Mt Shasta from the north:

Time for a bike ride:

We started in Camp Sherman and rode along Metolius River to Lower Bridge for lunch and back, about 16 miles.
The source of the Metiolius is two springs about 300 yards apart

which quickly became this:

Be still my heart – a quilt/fabric store in Sisters. I think I could spend a whole day in Sisters poking into all the shops.

We drove to Sparks Lake to hike the




A canyon path:


Oh my! Alan made pizza with basil pesto, pears, walnuts, and bleu cheese – sigh.

I’m at Caroline and Alan’s – friends first met in Guaymas Mexico, they owned catamaran Magic … and we’ve stayed in touch. This morning, mutual friends Doug and Linda of our Guaymas days and sailboat Que Linda (I love how we are always better known to each other by our first names and our boats’ names and almost never by our last names).  Doug and Linda have lived in Bend for about 30 years, Caroline and Alan about 2 months.

L-R: Doug, Linda, Caroline, Alan

Coffee and scones from a local bakery! Thanks Que Linda
Alan’s hay bale garden:

Berry bushes newly planted:

The south side of Mt Shasta:

A 7-hour day of driving to Bend Oregon – I like to drive so this was actually fun. The first 2 hours = orchards, farms stands, Dairyville, Chico, a Starbucks in Red Bluff just before getting on I-5 and a speed limit of 70! The next 2 hours = Redding, Weed, cross state border and SLOW DOWN to 55 (ugh!), Klamath Falls and a long drive along the lake, 2-lane Hwy 97 … Bend!