Alaska Trip

Our trip to Alaska is over, we are back in Washington as of yesterday. We had a nice flight back and an easy bus ride from airport to Stanwood.

OK to digress a bit, Vicki flew up to Alaska to be there for our friends 40th Anniversary, Mike and Pat have been lifelong friends of mine, we have been through many many wonderful experiences throughout our lifetimes. Fishing trips, sightseeing, picnics, haunted houses, jigsaw puzzles, and the list could go on and on.
Mike and Pat I congratulate you on your 40 years of marriage, your raising of two outstanding children, and for all you have done for me, other family and friends.



Back to other highlights of our trip, we visited with many old friends and family, It is always fun to see and visit family and friends. We got caught up on all the news and gossip of the last couple of years. The sad part of the trip was not being able to see all our friends and having to say goodbye to them again.

Guess I better call this enough for now. You all take care and God Bless.

Bear valley and Prince William Sound pics

Bear Valley is the the valley next to Portage glacier, from here it is a 2 1/2 mile trip through a tunnel to Whittier. From Whittier we took the boat out fishing, the second picture is from the boat about 30 miles out of Whittier.
As a side note: I grew up as a kid in Portage, Alaska, so this country was my play ground as a kid. some of my best memories of growing up came from this area.

Pictures of Prince William Sound fishing

Catching a fish

Way past due update

Picture of the boat we went out on.


above pic is Mike

OK I know I am way past due doing an update.
Charlie is doing good, Chemo makes him sick for a few days every time he gets a treatment.
He is not ready to have someone take care of him yet. We have moved back to our trailer in Mount Vernon for a while. We are close enough that if he needs help we can be there soon.
Since I am not working right now we decided it was time to for me to make trip home to Alaska and visit my parents and friends. I arrived in Alaska last Sunday and our friends Mike and Pat picked me up at the airport. I spent until friday with them and had a great visit. Tuesday Mike and I went to Whittier and went out fishing with his son in law. we had a really nice trip. the weather cooperated and was nice. water was good most of the day. Amazingly I even caught a couple of nice silver salmon.
Friday Mike and Pat brought me out to the Valley and my parents house, where we surprised them with my presence. They did not know I was coming up so it was a really good surprise.
Here is a couple of pics of the fishing trip. Owen I wish you could have been there, you would have enjoyed battling a silver salmon.

Trip to Bremerton

Last Sunday Vicki and I went to Bremerton to visit my brother Gene and his wife Cindy.
We had a good time visiting and catching up on what has been going on each others lives.
The weather cooperated and it was a nice day. We did drive through some rain going to and coming back from Bremerton.
Vicki and I went to Red Lobster in Silverdale on the way home for dinner. We had a really great meal. Nice treat for us. We sat next to a couple from Belfair. We had a really nice visit with them.
Weather Monday was nice, woke up this morning to rain. Looks like it will be a wet day.
Charlie is doing fairly good. The Chemo makes him pretty sick. He has one more treatment on Thursday, then the Doctor will see how is doing and maybe start radiation soon.
Thats all the news for now, take care till next time.

Short update

We had a good trip from Beaver to Washington. Spent a couple of days visiting along the way. We arrived in Mount Vernon last weekend, and spent a couple of days there, left our trailer at my cousins house and packed a bag and took the ferry across to Sequim.
Charlie is doing fairly good so far on his Chemo. We will know more next week after seeing his doctor. His next treatment is next thursday.
Weather has been really nice here. Today we have a few scattered clouds but nice out, highs in the low 70's.
The cats have adapted well to charlies house, Mikie has taken over just like he owns the place.
Thanks everyone for your prayers, I will do another update after next week. Till then take care.

Movin On

For those of you that have not heard yet, Vicki's step dad, Charlie has cancer and is starting treatment today. We are leaving Beaver Saturday the 5th and going up to be with him. Please keep him in your prayers.
The campground owners here in Beaver have been very understanding and have no problem with us leaving early to take care of Charlie. We have enjoyed our stay in Beaver. Met some really nice workampers that we will stay in touch with.
I will do another update after we get to Washington, and we know more about what is going on. Until then take care.

Scooter ride

I went for a short ride on the scooter out to Milford, Utah. It is about 35 miles from the campground. It was a beautiful day for a ride, seen some deer and lots of farmers busy in the fields. I stopped at Minersville on the return trip bought a couple of waters and checked out the town, after the 5 minute tour headed back to the campground.

Birds Love Thistle Seed

June 5th Snow

Well finally got a couple of pictures uploaded. The snow is all melted off now and weather appears to be getting better.

Snow in June

June 5th, 2008
Woke up to 6 inches of snow this morning. What is wrong with this picture? We are in Beaver, Utah, we are not supposed to have snow here this time of year! Lots of trees down and branches broken off the trees this morning. The park just planted like 200 Marigolds and some other flowers, guess we will have to wait and see how they survive this. Our water is frozen, furnace is running, nose is running, guess that is enough of that description.

We have been busy in the park, several projects done and some more to finish yet. Now if summer will ever get here for more than a couple of days at a time, we could enjoy the rest of the summer.

Later all, hope you all have a great summer. God Bless

I tried to upload a picture but it will not go through now. I will try later.

May 7th

Beaver has been cold and windy so far, but watching weather elsewhere it does not look any better. We are getting some rain showers this evening.
Work has been going real good. We finished all the fencing (that is for now) today. We ran out of fence boards the other day so started on the next project, putting up a building for the pool to house the pump and filters. We are making it large enough so they can store all the pool furniture inside for the winter. I will take a couple ofr pictures when the weather improves.
Vicki is working 4 days on and 4 days off, I am working 5 days on and 3 days off.
We are extremely happy that we are working with some other great workampers, and the owners are really nice to work for.
Until later you all take care.

Beaver, Utah

Here we are at the Beaver KOA, made it here just after noon. Got the trailer set up, the tv dish set up everything unloaded and set for the summer.
I have to start work tomorrow and Vicki starts Sunday.
The first project is 500 foot of fence across the front of the park. The old fence was rotten and part of it blew down in the spring winds.
Anybody coming by here is welcome to stop and say hello.
Take care everyone and God Bless.

April 20th to23rd

Left Arizona City and traveled to Lake Havasu City. We spent 2 nights at DJ's Rv park. Nice park and reasonable for Lake Havasu.

After setting up trailer we went to visit some friends that we met in Las Vegas several years ago. We had not seen them for about 3 years. We spent the rest of Sunday and Monday visiting with Jack & Shirley. Got caught up on what everyone had been doing for the last three years.

We left Lake Havasu on Tuesday, arrived in Las Vegas mid afternoon. Checked into Cowboy RV Park got trailer set up then relaxed for a couple of hours. Went to Costco to do some shopping before we headed to Beaver, Utah for the summer. After Shopping we treated ourselves to an absolutely wonderful dinner at the Red Lobster.

Left Las Vegas Wednesday morning for our destination for the day at Cedar City. Shortly after going back into Arizona on I-15 heard a loud POP. Sure enough blew a tire on the trailer. Got the spare tire on the trailer and continued to Cedar City. Checked into the Cedar City KOA. Nice park but a little pricey.

We will spend 2 nights here, do some more shopping, see if I can find a tire, etc before the last leg of our trip to Beaver for the summer. We will be there friday. Looking forward to spending the summer there.
I might add I am about to freeze here , we have been in 90 degree weather for the last month, low lst night of 37 high today supposed to be upper 50's, freeze tonight (ouch). Oh well summer is on its way.
God bless all and take care.

April 14th to 20th

We left Willcox Monday the 14th and arrived in Arizona City early afternoon. Hooked trailer up at a friends place. Jean has been a very good friend and we try and stop and visit every year if we can. Thanks Jean for your hospitality.

Below is a picture of our trailer set up in her front yard and a picture of Jean.

We spent until the next Sunday there and really enjoyed our visit.