Driving home, Mt Shasta from the north:
Bend OR – Friday
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.
Bend OR – Thursday afternoon
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.
Bend Or – Thursday morning
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:
North to Bend
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!
Auburn Elementary Bike Club
First of all, thank you to the Sacramento River Cats for their support of this year’s Auburn Elementary Bike Club and thank you to Katie Smith of Safe Kids California for administering this program. This year’s club members with 4th grade teacher Luke Brownell:
I am simply “Coach.”
Ed’s grandson
Over the past few weekends when Tom has come out to E Nicolaus to help Justin with the landscaping project, I’ve heard Tom say to Justin, “You’re just like your grandfather.” Meaning MY dad, Ed. And then I got my own example.
One evening, Justin told me he was going to Anders’ house down the road to look at some irrigation pipe. He came home with this
and a good story. “Mom, I got such a good deal. New pipe like this sells for $3.50/foot, used it’s $1.25/foot. At first Anders said $8/pipe, but at the end said $5/pipe was good enough. That’s only 25 cents/foot!” My dad knew the prices of everything and recognized a good deal when he saw one. Although that attribute may have skipped a generation, it’s alive and thriving in Ed’s grandson.
This weekend in E Nicolaus
Party at Val’s
Clarence Otis was in town for a couple of weeks and Val invited a few of his long-time friends to come over for a visit.
This was a mini-Rio Linda High School reunion. I think only 2 people at the party didn’t graduate from RLHS. Glenn Clark with two of his girlfriends from high school: Val Sills (left) and Linda Krueger.
Mike Renneker, visiting from Arkansas, and Glenn Clark:
Glenn Cunningham, Linda McCrackin, and Linda Frankini Cunningham:
Otis, Mike Rudy, and Mike James:
Linda and Kathy Gray McConiga:
Joann Questa, Laquita Johnson James, Sharon Rudy:
Joann Questa, Mike James, Val:
Mike Rudy, Mike James, Tim McConiga, Mike Renneker:
Linda Krueger, Sharon Rudy, Rick (Linda’s husband, not RLHS grad):
Mike Renneker, Mike Rudy – I think their smiles reflect the good time everyone had.
View from the backyard:
Thank you Val for bringing all of us together one more time. You do this tirelessly and generously and probably don’t get thanked enough. THANK YOU!
Gymnastics
Every Saturday morning, Sophia and Avery go to a gymnastics class at Tricks.
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