Okay, what do I want to write about? The green house is doing well. I have been getting strawberries all along and the little plants are multiplying. Nice. These are good tasting berries. Ugh there I go again with the berry theme.

Took a walk tonite over to the gravel pit. I have been walking in that pit for over 25 years (that is how long I have lived here in this house) and we won't mention the fact that I used to come down here to hunt bull frogs when I was a kid. Tonite I trespassed. Yup. I ignored the little sign they had posted and walked down to see if I could find some black berries to pick. There is that thread again. No berries to speak of. I think it has been too dry and too hot for a good crop of blackberries around here.

I may or may not go to the Willamette Valley Music festival. MY SON IS GOING TO BE PERFORMING WITH AMY CLAWSON ON SUNDAY. Was that subtle or what!! Hah! He is a bass guitar player and plays in her band. I am so proud! The other son from Redmond is coming over to take pictures at a wedding. I keep telling him that HE SHOULD TAKE PICTURES PROFESSIONALLY BECAUSE I THINK HE IS REALLY GOOD AT IT but he would rather earn a living. Okay. Got that out of my system. I have good kids.

We had a train wreck in Halsey. I heard that the trucker go stuck on the same crossing last year. The difference is in the timing. Last year they were able to contact the train in time so they could move the truck off the tracks. This year. Nope.

In other news we went over to Vale to visit my in-laws. When I tell people this their eyes light up and they say "Oh wow, really!?" It is at this point that I realize we are talking about two different Vale's. There is the Wow Vail, Colorado and then there is Vale, Oregon on the other side of Burns and Juntura and Harper and Little Valley and clear over next to the big city of Ontario on the Oregon Idaho border. Still a very nice place but not quite the wow factor of Vail. I will probably never get to Vail. I don't think I want to go to Vail. I am a simple creature. I have never been on a pair of snow skis. Water skis yes in my younger (and lighter) days. Now I do deep water aerobics. I am cutting down the monstrous laurel hedge in front of our property. It is the second time I have cut it down. It is a prolific producer of foliage. Nice hedge but it does tend to take up quite a bit of room if you don't keep it under control. Okay. I think it is icecream time. I guess we won't be having fresh blackberries on the vanilla ice cream. May have to go out and raid the raspberries. Happy Trails to you, Until we meet again. Hi Ho Silver Away!!!!