It's Friday night - we've been boating at Galesville Reservoir and we got back and had an Asian takeaway for tea. I've not been at my brightest - a bit too much sun yesterday was followed by some strong beer, so today has been a day of abstinence for me.
The temperature at Galesville was "only" in the high 80's, but here in Grants Pass, we've just had our 5th consecutive triple digit temperature day. We haven't seen any sign of any lightning strikes or fires anywhere near here, despite news warnings about them the last few days. On Wednesday, it was reported that there were 2,500 separate lightning strikes in Southern Oregon - can you believe it?
Tomorrow morning (Saturday) we're planning to get up fairly early and head for Table Rock before the heat gets up too much. Photos of that - and today's at Galesville - will be posted next time around.
Oh - and we got Scott's bike back - all gears working now.
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Saturday, 2 August 2014
Friday, 1 August 2014
The weekend starts here
Scott and Lucy are both off work today so we're planning to go boating. We've got Cade's birthday on Sunday as well, so plenty to look forward to.
I took Scott's bike to the bike shop yesterday to get them to fix the gears, so hopefully on my next ride, it'll make things a little easier.
Last evening, Jo and I went to the Oregon Pour Authority - a new pub - who had a promotion on with the Southern Oregon Brewery, whose tap room in Medford we've been to a few times on previous holidays. We walked in the door, bought a couple of pints and put our names in the raffle and a few seconds later, my name was first out of the hat - I won the t-shirt you see me modelling here:
'Scuse the untidy trailer!
The beers were, as usual, nice, but a bit too strong for our liking, so we're not quite on top of the world this morning.
Bye for now
I took Scott's bike to the bike shop yesterday to get them to fix the gears, so hopefully on my next ride, it'll make things a little easier.
Last evening, Jo and I went to the Oregon Pour Authority - a new pub - who had a promotion on with the Southern Oregon Brewery, whose tap room in Medford we've been to a few times on previous holidays. We walked in the door, bought a couple of pints and put our names in the raffle and a few seconds later, my name was first out of the hat - I won the t-shirt you see me modelling here:
'Scuse the untidy trailer!
The beers were, as usual, nice, but a bit too strong for our liking, so we're not quite on top of the world this morning.
Bye for now
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Still no storms
Despite all the fears, we still haven't had any storms, but we're sitting outside just now after dinner and we've noticed a couple of helicopters with water buckets flying past so there must be some fires breaking out nearby.
It's been hot again however - three triple digit temperature days in a row. I went out for a cycle again this morning (check http://www.strava.com/activities/173102175 and my cycling blog) but otherwise nobody has done much around Delsie Drive today - at least not until Lucy and Scott came home from work and provided Tequila Sunrise and BBQ'd chicken respectively for Jo and I.
We had lunch at Cartwright's Deli (http://cartwrightsmarket.com/) - nice place and a great selection of beers to refill my growler.
Yesterday, I accidentally "busted" Cade & Braeden. Cade's pal Jacob was staying over and they spent some time in the pool - mostly jumping off the roof of the shed. This was something that was strictly taboo last year, but the brazen way they did it this year - even posing for the camera - suggested to me that it was now an approved practice. I was wrong - but here they are in action anyway:
Braeden's a bit more subdued than Cade.
I forgot to show you the welcome we receive every year:
That's all for now.
It's been hot again however - three triple digit temperature days in a row. I went out for a cycle again this morning (check http://www.strava.com/activities/173102175 and my cycling blog) but otherwise nobody has done much around Delsie Drive today - at least not until Lucy and Scott came home from work and provided Tequila Sunrise and BBQ'd chicken respectively for Jo and I.
We had lunch at Cartwright's Deli (http://cartwrightsmarket.com/) - nice place and a great selection of beers to refill my growler.
Yesterday, I accidentally "busted" Cade & Braeden. Cade's pal Jacob was staying over and they spent some time in the pool - mostly jumping off the roof of the shed. This was something that was strictly taboo last year, but the brazen way they did it this year - even posing for the camera - suggested to me that it was now an approved practice. I was wrong - but here they are in action anyway:
Braeden's a bit more subdued than Cade.
I forgot to show you the welcome we receive every year:
That's all for now.
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Tuesday - lightning forecast
It was 106F yesterday and we're going to be in triple digits again today - and they're forecasting dry lightning storms this afternoon - the very type that usually starts off the wildfires on the mountains.
No cycling for me today - day of rest. I'm hoping to go a hike up Table Rock (http://southernoregon.com/tablerock/) some time, however - not today, but sometime soon.
Yesterday (Monday) we took the boys down to Medford and we all bought new books in Barnes & Noble, followed by lunch at Kaleidoscope. Here's the boys waiting for their meals:
We went to the Rogue Valley Mall afterwards, at Cade's request. We were not allowed to join them, but were told to go and look at other shops, or wait for them, which we did:
Had to pop in to the Pharmacy on the way back to get some antihistamine pills for Jo - her bites are spreading alarmingly and the cream isn't making them retreat at all.
The last pit stop was at Frank n Stene's Monster Growlers to fill mine up again - and that was the day just about done. Tea was leftover ribs from the previous night - and last night's Lucy cocktail was Sangria. I was also given a taste of "Moonshine" to try. Thanks, but no thanks.
No cycling for me today - day of rest. I'm hoping to go a hike up Table Rock (http://southernoregon.com/tablerock/) some time, however - not today, but sometime soon.
Yesterday (Monday) we took the boys down to Medford and we all bought new books in Barnes & Noble, followed by lunch at Kaleidoscope. Here's the boys waiting for their meals:
We went to the Rogue Valley Mall afterwards, at Cade's request. We were not allowed to join them, but were told to go and look at other shops, or wait for them, which we did:
Had to pop in to the Pharmacy on the way back to get some antihistamine pills for Jo - her bites are spreading alarmingly and the cream isn't making them retreat at all.
The last pit stop was at Frank n Stene's Monster Growlers to fill mine up again - and that was the day just about done. Tea was leftover ribs from the previous night - and last night's Lucy cocktail was Sangria. I was also given a taste of "Moonshine" to try. Thanks, but no thanks.
Monday, 28 July 2014
Lucy's cocktails - the story so far
It was Rum Punch on Saturday and Margaritas tonight - two of each - very nice. Here's the creator, enjoying hers:
Cade got the chance of a ride in one of the Classic cars in the Back to the 50's parade last night so we went along to watch - and, in some cases, embarrass him in front of his pals:
Braeden had gone to the cinema with one of his pals and was staying overnight with him. Cade had a pre-birthday celebration with some of his pals today (Sunday), including a meal at one of the local Mexicans.
Scott was back at work but the rest of us had a fairly easy day at Delsie Drive, although I managed a quick cycle this morning (details on that blog).
The ribs tonight were excellent and we had Creme Brulee and a Pavlova to follow!
The Lesinas vegetable garden is coming along great as well - check out these zucchinis picked tonight:
Cade got the chance of a ride in one of the Classic cars in the Back to the 50's parade last night so we went along to watch - and, in some cases, embarrass him in front of his pals:
Braeden had gone to the cinema with one of his pals and was staying overnight with him. Cade had a pre-birthday celebration with some of his pals today (Sunday), including a meal at one of the local Mexicans.
Scott was back at work but the rest of us had a fairly easy day at Delsie Drive, although I managed a quick cycle this morning (details on that blog).
The ribs tonight were excellent and we had Creme Brulee and a Pavlova to follow!
The Lesinas vegetable garden is coming along great as well - check out these zucchinis picked tonight:
Sunday, 27 July 2014
Oregon
Our drive from NJ to JFK in Friday morning's rush hour traffic went remarkably well, with no mistakes. We were flying across the continent with United, business class, but weren't seated together - we both had window seats - mine was next to a man with legs that went on forever, and when he went to sleep as soon as the flight took off, I felt a bit stranded. Eventually, I had to visit the loo, which meant stepping over his outstretched legs. As I did so, I knocked his laptop off the shelf and it fell on him, waking him up. He was not best pleased.
No decent films to watch, but a large Bombay Sapphire and a couple of glasses - three in Jo's case - of Pinot Noir helped to send me to sleep. The flight is over 6 hours - nearly as long as it took to get from Heathrow to JFK last week - but it went very smoothly and soon we were waiting in SFO for our connection up to Medford.
It's a little prop plane up from there and there seemed to be some problems with the AC, but they didn't affect us too much. The Lesinas were all there at the airport to meet us, having only just seen off Lorna and her family that very morning.
Kaleidoscope, our favourite pizza bar, was queued out the door so we went to Wild River in Medford for our Friday tea-time meal.
Although Jo and I had by now been travelling for about 16 hours, we'd "gained" 3 hours by travelling west, so we felt semi-obliged to stay up until a respectable bedtime. Lucy poured us large G & T's and that did the trick.
Slow start to Saturday, but Lucy made waffles for breakfast and that was nice. Scott and Cade had some hardware shopping to do, but the rest of us drove in to town and checked out the Saturday market and a few of the shops - including the new bike store, where Jo was smitten by this model:
I also got a chance to fill up my Growler at the new Oregon Pour Authority, using the voucher Lucy got me for Father's Day.
We've had lunch, a quick snooze and a dip in the pool, but I'm still too hot, so blogging in the comfort of the air conditioning in the trailer is a bit of an escape.
No decent films to watch, but a large Bombay Sapphire and a couple of glasses - three in Jo's case - of Pinot Noir helped to send me to sleep. The flight is over 6 hours - nearly as long as it took to get from Heathrow to JFK last week - but it went very smoothly and soon we were waiting in SFO for our connection up to Medford.
It's a little prop plane up from there and there seemed to be some problems with the AC, but they didn't affect us too much. The Lesinas were all there at the airport to meet us, having only just seen off Lorna and her family that very morning.
Kaleidoscope, our favourite pizza bar, was queued out the door so we went to Wild River in Medford for our Friday tea-time meal.
Although Jo and I had by now been travelling for about 16 hours, we'd "gained" 3 hours by travelling west, so we felt semi-obliged to stay up until a respectable bedtime. Lucy poured us large G & T's and that did the trick.
Slow start to Saturday, but Lucy made waffles for breakfast and that was nice. Scott and Cade had some hardware shopping to do, but the rest of us drove in to town and checked out the Saturday market and a few of the shops - including the new bike store, where Jo was smitten by this model:
I also got a chance to fill up my Growler at the new Oregon Pour Authority, using the voucher Lucy got me for Father's Day.
We've had lunch, a quick snooze and a dip in the pool, but I'm still too hot, so blogging in the comfort of the air conditioning in the trailer is a bit of an escape.
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