August with Friends & Family:

August Mornings:

August Sunsets & Moonsets:

08/16 Fun

Paccar Reunion at Gene & Dixie's 08/23/08:

10 on 10 August 2008

I was fortunate to spend 9 days at Hood Canal, but couldn't upload my August 10th photos until now:

Nature All Beauty...

Leavenworth Joe & I enjoyed a long weekend in Leavenworth. We stayed at the Blackbird Lodge which is downtown and above the Wenatchee River.
The mountain shot is of Sleeping Lady.
We golfed at the Leavenworth golf course, the 14th hole looks onto the Worldmark condos.
The family is doing the Chicken Dance.
Floaters on the Wenatchee River.
and the deer was on the golf course.

Whistler, B.C.

Joe & I spent 3 nights at the Clock Tower in Whistler B.C. It rained on the trip up and back, but on Friday and Saturday we drove 30 miles north to Pemberton and enjoyed 2 days of really nice golfing. Here are some pictures of where we stayed and the golf course. We also saw 2 black bears on our way out of Whistler, one crossed the highway in front of us and the other was grazing on a hill on the side of the road; sadly, no photos of either one.

Whistler Village

Clock Tower living room

Windows and shutters on ceiling - nice to see the rain coming down...

The coffee cup says Cowboy Coffee..

bought the Wii Fit on Friday - what fun and what a nice assortment of exercises. On Sunday Jeff and Jenny had dinner with us. It was Jeff's first time playing and he beat all of Joe and my records in the Balance Games area; now we really have a challenge to smash his first place records! I played for about an hour total yesterday and woke up feeling my ab, hip, and thigh muscles. I think that's a good thing... Plan is to workout on it every morning for at least 30 minutes. Wish me luck in achieving this goal.

Falling Crows

Today I witnessed something that felt like it was out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. About noon I was mopping the kitchen floor when I heard a racket outside. I slid open the sliding glass door to hear a racket of crows - about 100 of them up in our trees. I immediately thought that they were having a grand time mating; as the prior Saturday evening, my son-in-law Jeff educated me that the crows were indeed mating in the trees. What a surprise when I began to hear loud thuds, as 4 birds fell to their backs on the ground. At first I thought "What kind of mating is this?" Then a large brown bird flew out of the trees with crows flying after it, trying to attack it. The brown bird was either a hawk or an eagle. I ran to get my camera, set it on video, and of course failed to turn it on.

I was very fortunate to celebrate my 53rd birthday on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. We were blessed with beautiful weather. We enjoyed golfing, walking, riding bikes, snorkeling, reading, relaxing, and eating! I'd heard that there were lots of chickens on the island, but the roosters are quite beautiful. We saw two different types of dolphin, spinner and bottlenose; and mama whales with their baby. Listen to this rooster:

Rooster video

Wish I could capture the lovely scent of this plumeria...

On the interior houses are built on stilts/pilings to protect them from flash floods from the mountains.

Lighthouse

map of the Island

Cute bird couple

Shave Ice - like a snow cone to me, but the real treat was the macadamia ice cream on the bottom and the Azuki beans in the middle.

Pono Kai condo kitchen and Joe, the chef! We bought lots of fish from Costco.

Beautiful Waimea Canyon

Golf at the luxurious PRINCE north shore golf course (Jane, did you notice PRINCE?)

All things come to an end; dinner at the Cafe Portofino, next to the Marriott, prior to our 10:30 pm flight home.

New hair style for me.