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So it goes here in the northwest, dramatic weather changes day by day. One day 104 the next barely in the 70’s. Last weekend we did whatever it took to stay cool whether it was redneckin’ in Milk Creek out at Justin and Martha’s or slip and sliding at grandma’s house celebrating her 60th birthday. I have often surmised that the heat makes a man mad and if true then this weekend Harper and company were loony. Kathleen couldn’t answer my “deep” question. Maybe it was too early in the morning or too early in her 60th year but my question still stands: “What has happened in the last 60 years that you feel is the most significant change or difference in the world?” you know that one things you thing about and say “man i never thought i would live to see the day” Well the question still stands. Strangely enough I know 4 people that have turned 60 in the last year(and a half) so what say ye. More importantly we finished off the volcano cake and proceeded to answer the question at hand. How the hell do we stay cool without air conditioning.

These are all just grand memories. Rain, cooler temperatures, and several bowls of soup have slowly let sanity creep back into place. Sane are the Eskimos.

Tim posted a slide show from his point of view.

http://timlabargephotography.com/gallery/fossil/

This one deserved it’s own post.

Hey y’all

Harper and I got a chance to spend some quality time together last weekend. Jodessa had to work but I believe was looking forward to spending some time at the house alone (first time since H was born).

I love spontaneous trips. Most of the time anything I plan falls through so last minute trips leave no second guessing or over planning. It began with a quick call from Tim and family to let us know they were heading over to the the Wheeler County Bluegrass festival. Without hesitation we were in. We loaded up Big red and crammed 5 adults (loosely speaking and by age only) and 5 little ones (ages 4.5, 4, 2.87, 1 and 1.ish) all of our gear some tunes and supplies for weekend and headed out for our 3 hour ride to Central Oregon.

Fossil is a small town named after, you guessed it, fossils. Now when i mention music festival most folks will think BIG. I would guess that at it biggest the crowd was about 300 including vendors and passerbys.

A my memory’s are grand from the weekend mix with regret that Jodessa was unable to join us and unfortunately had a crazy weekend at work.

Hey all!

Just got back from an incredible weekend with H-man and posse. More on that later. Just wanted to point you to a great post that Miss Ingu posted about Harper’s first half of his summer break. I will fill you in about our trip to Eastern OR (Fossil) to catch a bluegrass festival.

cheers!!

Yesterday we had some folks over for Jodessa’s birthday. It was a blast! Kids, sprinklers, beer can chicken and 100 degrees! I also just realized that my picture taking has sunk to the most bottomless pit photography. This is all we have to show for it. Sorry i will try and do better.

Last weekend we went camping at Indian Henry Campground on the Clackamas river. Harper had a blast and I got poison oak really bad. I am still suffering.

Jodessa and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary yesterday. So all you naysayers that laughed at our Vegas wedding, in your face

Seriously though what an amazing journey. Harper couldn’t remember the word anniversary so he just called it “wedding day”. A couple a few tables away were celebrating their 41 anniversary the same day. Kathleen recently posted a wonder story about her “brother bear and sweet sis” who just celebrated their 40. Congratulations.

Summer is starting to feel like it is fully upon us, well almost. Harper has taken to any and all things bike related like white on rice. He has three rides.

1) Bike trailer 2) trail-a-bike (or as harper likes to call it “my bike that connects to your bike” 3)wheel bike w/ training wheels

So the other day I randomly scored a perfectly good, actually in great shape, bike from a coworker of mine. It was pretty ironic actually he was getting ready to take it to goodwill so i scored or Harper did at least. I brought it home put the training wheels on and Harper took off. I had to run into the garage to get my bike because i could run fast enough to catch up with him.

So this weekend we hit the trifecta. Saturday went to a bike race in the trailer since it was a far ride. Sunday we woke up. I thanked Harper for coming into my life and giving me the joy of celebrating father’s day everyday with him. We quickly jumped on the trailer bike and went for a long ride to follow it up with a run to the school yard for some two wheeled bike with training wheel riding.