Cape Meares

In all our trips to the coast, we always went straight over from Salem to Lincoln City, then south. With 4 very loud hyper kids in tow, you go with what you know, know what I mean? Just as we got about 6 miles outside Lincoln City today, traffic slowed to a stop, maxing out at 5mph – it took us 30 minutes to go a little over a mile. We saw the turn off to go North and went for it.

Much whining from the kids “are we there yet?” and we found ourselves at Cape Meares, surrounded by gorgeous trees and thick fog.

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We went and saw the lighthouse (already closed, so just the outside)….

and the “Octopus Tree”…

Then came back and ate a quick dinner (already packed in the cooler) while watching the fog roll over the trees

Then drove down to Lincoln City, but it had gotten cloudy, windy and very cool (completely opposite what the weather report said of course) so we headed back and visited the park in Van Duzen area that the kids love and came home.

This was our welcome home, just outside Monmouth

I do love Oregon.

And I have more cherry tomatoes and cucumbers ripe!

Excuse me while I move to Antarctica

This is what I get for picking on Double Danger and their weather in Texas.

I’m sorry, I’ll be good from now on! Just give us back our PNW weather please, pretty please??

It’s 75 outside, 84 inside. 4 fans running. I cannot sleep. Yes, I think we’ll dust off that a/c window unit tomorrow.

I hope everyone else is faring better then I am LOL!

The one where I complain about the weather again

Makes me wonder if the weather dudes don’t read my blog and decide to crank it up a notch cause the previous highs weren’t high enough!

Right now, I’d much prefer freezing cold.

Yes, I’m fighting a migraine from it! Fun, fun.

I’m watering at night so the plants get a chance to use the water, watering in this kind of heat will evaporate faster. All we have left are some russets, green beans, onions, cucumbers and tomatoes, but they’re doing pretty well considering the abusive mistreatment this weather (*cough*me*cough*) is putting them through.

Deviating from normal

I don’t get out nearly as much as I should, but we bought a 1 year state parks pass a couple months ago and haven’t used it once. Considering I only need to use it once a month to get my money out of it, I’m trying to do that (trying for every 2 weeks or better actually). One of our closest ones is Silver Falls State Park, we’ve been there many times and the kids love it (3 year old has been asking for a week to go). We went and saw the falls and started on a hike. Not very far into it, my 5 year old got his first ever blister (he insisted on wearing his Iron Man shoes instead of his good walking ones, hopefully lesson learned) and we managed to forget the first aid kit (first time ever and we needed it) so we had to head home instead of going to the swimming hole and playground, but it wasn’t a bad couple hours away from work. I got good enough photos that I could mess around with them in Photoshop anyway!

It’s cloudy…

…and cool. Now if only I could wake up and get motivated.

Nah.

My poor garden.

In case you live under a rock

…or are just too busy, the International Space Station will be visible for the next few nights to the naked eye.

Visit this site and find out where and when to look!