Oregon Summer Fun

On the Road Again

Wow! I did not realize until we began prepping for our summer working vacation that it has been one year since I was traveling in our motor home. We have been prepping for our upcoming trip for 4 day and it has been bone tiring. As our house distanced in the rear view mirror I asked "OK, what have we forgotten?" Paul, contemplating our intense preparation was certain there could have been nothing. Eight hours later some of the answers becomes clear: the down comforter (where we are going the low is in the 30's at night), the spices (including the salt) and some work out equipment (yoga mat and resistant bands).

Earlier I had awoke at 3:00 am and thought "you can't forget last night's homemade ice cream, basil from the garden and olive oil." I really thought that was all we were missing and there was no way we could not be on the road by 7 am. We woke at 5:00 am and left the house at 8:05 am.

As I finished loading the RV, I was blessing the home and missing it at the same time. I remembered a conversation I had with Tara a few months before when she was in the process of selling most everything she owned and walking away from her home to live a life of "full timing". I couldn't convince her at the time, but I relayed that it would all be far away and most forgotten by the first night of camping.

The sun is slowly fading on our campsite in the orange grove and I wonder "Where is home?"

The Greatest Show on Earth!

If you have not read "Water for Elephants" do!

Yea, I never thought it would happen again either...

But here it is: My first post in months. So many topics have flood my mind. I've wanted to talk on racial relationships, (after being told by an African American that I would not do well at the Capitol Jazz, because I was not black and after reading THE Help) to my beautiful garden which is giving us a bountiful of goods these days including artichoke, asparagus and yummy tomatoes. I've wanted to blog on my intense work schedule and my great reunion with old St. Thomas friends. But this is what I got for you. Pictures of yesterday's park day! And even this isn't complete because there are no pictures of the boys and their water gun fights.


Photo credit to Irena Whalen

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Where Do Yo Sit When you Have a Builder in the Family?

I wish I could say these are all the projects that are laying around my house at the moment, but what you don't see is the 3 ejector projects on the fireplace hearth or the Magnetix covering our TV room or the numerous (too many to count) Lego accomplishments in his room or the many art works .

I would like to know. Do you have a builder in your house? Where do you keep all their projects? I truly get a bit overwhelmed by the clutter.

I unschool so therefore life is a project and our house is his classroom but where will I sit in four years?