Grandson's Wedding-July 2012

 
June 2012:This month was a laid back, rest month.  We did, however, do some letterboxing and went to a casino near Centrailia, WA with sister Jodene to see Randy Travis in concert. We also went to our Sauvie Island Yacht Club picnic at Blue Lake Park.  It was a month of see friends, and family.  Molly wanted to be close to daughter Jeanette this summer because grandson Travis was getting married and she wanted to help if needed.

July 2012:

BBQ with Hanson's & Berry's

Tom and Sue Stose brought their RV over to our park for the Fourth of July and we had a great BBQ on our lawn.  Sister Jodene then arranged a visit with our Uncle Harold (we always call him Uncle Book…long story) in Coquille.  It was really great seeing him as he is in his late 90’s, and cousins Roy and Ruby.  We had another surprise BBQ with a fellow letterboxers (Howard and Linda) that we met in Mesa but lives in Hillsboro.  He is a good friend with Rich and Kathy Berry, who I used to work with and hadn’t seen for many years.  Howard arranged the BBQ without informing telling Rich and Kathy who the surprise guests were.  We had a great time reminiscing.



Meghan,  Travis, and Tika

The big event this month, however, was our grandson’s wedding.  It was a beautiful sunny day in the mountains around Sandy where they live, with Mt. Hood in the background.  Meaghan and Travis were just a perfect couple and made the rounds of all the guests.  The only thing that was of concern was that WE AREN’T OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE A 25 YEAR OLD GRANDSON GETTING MARRIED!!!

Letterboxers, South Jetty

We ended the month by taking a little mini-vacation to the Long Beach peninsula to visit friends Pat and Susan Caniff and Nancy and Herman Ford who were also visiting and Tom and Sue Stose also came down for a night.  With all these letterboxers present, most of the weekend was spent finding letterboxes.  One group of 8 letterboxes was on a 1.5-mile hike and was carved by one of our favorite carvers, Stormrider.  The whole theme was of pirates and the carved stamps were in such detail they should be considered a work of art.  While letterboxing on the South Jetty of the Columbia River, we surprised a group of four lady letterboxers that we had corresponded with several times.  It was nice putting a face to the correspondents, and we had a good time comparing notes.