A Birthday Trip to the BEACH!

Although a bit cool and breezy, it was still a wonderful day to walk along the beach!

This was yesterday. Mom, Dad, Annie, Haley and Lori all joined me in celebrating my 52nd birthday by going to Lincoln City. Our first stop? The Buffet at the Chinook Winds Casino! Yumm. They always have the best salmon. It was an excellent lunch.

Next, while everyone else did their gambling thing (Annie came home a winner!), Haley and I traipsed over to the Arcade and dropped some quarters on the games. Haley took me on in air hockey and it ended up a tie. She "rode" a motorcycle and spent a good amount of time at the pinball machines. (used to be machines were a quarter a game, now fifty-cents and up! Yikes).

After that, we went down onto the beach and walked a while. We saw some fishermen (isn't it weird, fishermen seem to be happy in any kind of weather!) and sat for a bit on some rocks. We got this picture and then moved to the folk's van where we waited for everyone else.

All in all, a very nice day to celebrate a birthday and to have some fun!

Time for Walnuts!

Dad says walnuts need to be dried for 12-17 hours in the fruit dryer. Luckily, there is still enough good weather left here in Oregon right now to get those walnuts gathered up!

Let's Party! Filipino Style!

Filipino parties are always so much fun! Wife Annie made new friends with Perlie, another filipina, and we got invited to their house warming party. No pictures of Haley because she spent last night and today at friend, Holly's house...

The Generosity of Apple Trees (and parents!)

Wowie! Mom and Dad have an extra food dryer (imagine, this dryer is made out of an old dishwashing machine!) and several highly productive apple trees. The tree-fall apples alone filled two big boxes and would go to waste so we volunteered to put the diswasher to the test.... Gotta say, so far they look delicioso!!! Thanks, Mom and Dad!

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com/

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso

A Personal Message from "The Keeper of the Blog"