Family Gathering on Fripp Island
This year for the first time in several years we had a chance to get all the family together again at one time in one place. We had 17 adults (or near adults) and...
Category: Life with Ronnie
Some Soaring Photos from the 2017 Seniors Contest
Ronnie and I spent several weeks at Seminole-Lake Gliderport in central Florida in January, February and March. I was preparing for and then managing an event that has been going on for the last...
Annual Boat Parade on Fripp Island
Friday evening just after sunset ….about 5:30 PM…a beautiful evening With temperature in the low 50’s, not too bad for a walk around the Marina Captain Ralph was dressed as Santa and took a...
Hurricane Matthew – The damage is stunning
Out on a bike ride yesterday morning and I saw that all the houses on Porpoise Circle were hit with major flood damage. These homes are only a few hundred yards from ours…. This house is...
Matthew Cleanup
I called a local tree man Thursday evening right after we were allowed back on the island….so we were first on his list ….Friday afternoon he and his crew with a Bobcat and chainsaws cleared...
Hurricane Matthew
We just got back to our house yesterday, after a week, and were able to breathe a sigh of relief….no house damage and no water in the house. Our next door neighbor has a...
Cape Perpetua
The best beach of all…a little south of the town of Yachats….around Cape Perpetua…the color of the water was brilliant ..the waves were crashing in this cove ….temperature about 62 degrees… The...
Tillamook
The Air Museum is amazing. This building is the largest wooden building in the world. This was one of 10 locations around the perimeter of the US, build in 1942 to house blimps. The blimps purpose was...
The Oregon Coast (so far)
It is jaw dropping to say the least…..Cannon Beach below….. Here, at Cannon Beach, is one of the “sea stacks” as they call them…..really huge rocks…I think this one is about 250 feet high…...
Astoria
We really enjoyed Astoria but have not been able to post anything because no wi-fi at Ft. Stevens State Park Campground. The first day in the area we started by driving to the Astoria Column....
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