Rosy came down and we celebrated her birthday a week or so late. Had some candles on a “cake” and mostly played scrabble. Karen, Rosy and I were the regulars with each of the kids coming and going for a game thoughout the day! One rather hilarious game with Stephanie… Rosy said she’d forgotten how much fun teenagers could be! :laugh: But they are all fun and it was a wonderful visit. We females are planning a trip to Rogue River for a ladies day. I think we’ll probably see the bears and hit the bead & yarn shops in Grants Pass. We’re sending the boys camping with Grumpa. 🙄
Oh yes, I’m spreading on a little bug repelent… there were a few misquito’s in the evenings, but not bad enough to run us indoors!

Karen’s happy moment! The shawl is done and coming off the loom! It’s very pretty. She combined those leftovers very well! I’ll get a pciture of her wearing it tomorrow. Grandmother sat wrapped in it this evening while she watched us playing scrabble on the patio and it seemed to be doing it’s job.

She thought she’d try the smaller looms as the family was really happy to have the big loom out of the room! 😛 Stephanie thinks a hood for the shawl would be a great idea. Hummm…. Well, it’s worth a try. Isn’t that pretty much what Little Red Riding Hood wore? Should be safe… we have no wolves in these woods. At least not the 4 legged kind! :laugh:

Stephanie thought she might like to try. But after some struggles, she decided she just wasn’t up to weaving at this point in her career. That’s okay, too. We need someone to admire our work! lol And model it!

The boys wanted to go fishing so they spent the morning digging worms and we went to the dredge pond this evening. They didn’t catch anything but Karen has promised to take Chris in the morning, when they might be biting. We could see the trout swimming around but they weren’t hungry. Even the Osprey wasn’t having any luck. But we enjoyed watching him scanning the pond from on high. Karen took this shot of me encouraging Chris in his endeavors. We roasted hotdogs over the BBQ grill tonight and they are “camping” on the lawn.

In spite of the snow melting into the lake on the north bank Stephanie say it wasn’t “that cold”! she spent quite a bit of time swimming and managed to stand on this log and even, after pitching off backward once, to dive off properly. Elevation here is probably about 5000′. A pretty lake that has been made handicap accessible. That means paved paths and a nice cement “dock”. There were 30-40 people there but I saw none that seemed handicapped. The dogs did okay, Jack being better behaved than Cori. Well, since he slept most of the time it would be hard to beat him! lol

Don’t ask me how it got it’s name! But it’s a popular place. The boys found lost tackle and rigged up fishing poles in order to feed the minnows. Stephanie was warming up by napping with Jack on the warm cement. Karen and I dandled our feet in the water and watched.

We’re all pitching in to get the looms ready for Black Sheep Gathering in Eugene this month. We are not going to be able to go, but Carolina Homespun will have our looms there. Chris is putting nails into his own loom. Grumpa helped him build this one himself. We have a big stack of 14″ square looms to sand and oil today! 😀

We loaded up in the pickup and went for a picnic up to Mountain Meadow today. This is the Salmon River. Randy and Cori (the small dog) are on the rock, Chris is hunting skipping rocks in the background and that’s Jack (big dog) in front. The rest of us were tagging along playing in the snow melted icy water or hunting pretty rocks! lol We spend most of the afternoon sporting in the river. They found some snow to play in and had a dandy snowball fight. Grumpa, who can throw the furtherest, won, of course! 😛
It was a fun day but we’re all pretty tired. We had dinner and most of us are ready for bed. Those of us over 10 years old, anyway! :laugh:

Here is Chris, testing the waters. Instead of cartoons they went to help Grumpa fix the dam that feeds the flume, part of the the creek that run though the yard. After they got through playing in that one, they came back to build a dam in Treasure Creek. Hope they don’t flood the yard! lol