It's Monday morning and Scott and Lucy are back at work so we're at home with the boys. We have to take Braeden to the Orthodontist this afternoon - Lucy will meet us there - just an adjustment to his braces - nothing to worry about.
It's Cade's birthday this coming Friday so we've got his present to buy - possibly today.
What else has happened since my last post? I can barely remember - it's all a bit of a blur, but thank goodness I do at least remember to take photos of most places we go - the digital date and time records are very helpful.
Thursday evening late, Scott lit the pit fire and we had lovely 'smores and toasted marshmallows as darkness fell. On Friday morning, some of my hearing at last returned and, with Lucy off work, Jo and I took the chance to take a stroll down to the river in the morning before it got too hot. We spied some lovely properties and picked out the ones we would buy!
Lucy then took us for a treat to http://yogurthut.net/ where we gorged ourselves. You get to choose which flavours, toppings, sauces etc and can mix and match as much as you want. Jo was in heaven. This was Braeden's choice:
Scott, Cade and I played 9 holes at Applegate River GC on Friday night - and, because we left it late and it had cooled down a bit, we were able to walk the course - that was good fun.
On Saturday morning, we took the truck downtown and visited the weekly market there, then walked down to the park to see the classic cars - it was Back to the 50's weekend in Grants Pass. It brought back memories of watching American movies when we were young and we could only dream about the apparently magical land that was America that seemed so glamorous and different to post war baby boomers like us. There were a lot of replicas as well as originals there - plus some quirky ones too. Here's a couple of examples that we stopped at:
We had lunch at Tap Rock, overlooking the river and the departure point for the Hellgate river cruises.
Sunday was a busy day - Scott. Cade and I were heading for an early morning, beat the heat, tee time at lovely Quail Point - but not before we devoured Lucy's Egg Bake for breakfast - that set us up well for the day ahead.
After lunch we headed down Applegate Valley and sampled a couple of the many vineyards there. Schmidt Family Wineries was first - and what a beautiful spot it was:
Scott was driving and Lucy was getting a bit tipsy on the samples, so we only did one more - Troon Winery - the wines were better here, but it wasn't quite as pretty as Schmidt was - although it did have lovely views of the valley beyond the vines:
Burgers on the BBQ last night - lovely.
That's all for now, folks.
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