We have Peony's!

First Peony's we have had in 5 years and they are well worth the wait! And I put one of them in the hand blown glass vase I bought at Jamestown, VA.

Flowers always put a smile on my face.

What do you do when the Garden is over grown?

Get Sheep!

With everything I have to do, is all but impossible for me to do a Veggie garden this year. So I decided to toss two sheep in and let them have at it. At least it will get eaten down and not look so scruffy.

Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls

DH and DS at the first waterfall we visited. And yes, DS, if you make faces when I want to take photos, I am going to post them any way.

I don't know why we waited so long to visit the Gorge, it is a truly stunning place.

Multnomah Falls, really impressive but nearly impossible to get a good photo of it with my dying camera but I tried any way. If I remember correctly, it is 620ft.

This one is the Wahkeena Falls.

And the bottom of Multnomha Falls. We really enjoyed the drive, visited the Falls, enjoyed the beautiful landscape and saw the Bridge of the Gods, which was a lot smaller than we were expecting but still fun to see.

Edda in the evening ~

Decided to take some photos of Edda in the last rays of the sun yesterday. Love how the sun looks in her mane.

Is hard getting good photos of Edda, either she wants to be really close or is making a funny face. LOL

But I tried anyway. She is growing up to be such a beauty. She turned two years old on May 30th. Is hard to believe she is two already, time sure flies.

A Beautiful Silver bay 2 year old Icelandic filly.

Bonneville Dam

We decided to go visit the Columbia River Gorge and visit the Bonneville Dam. And was able to drive on top of the Dam/Locks in one area, rather wild.

The shear amount of water coming out of the gates was impressive.

Impressive white water at the Dam. Enjoyed watching it as we ate lunch at a picnic bench.

Am saying the word impressive a lot, well,, because it was. ;O)

The fish hatchery at the Bonneville Dam. Pretty neat place.

Cute little cottage. Looks like both the Dam and the hatchery was built in the 1930's and had a wonderful feel to it.

Really cool weather vane.

The 450lb sturgeon, really big fish.

New Car

With DH and I driving on the HWY a lot the last couple of weeks in the Element, I firmly come to the conclusion that car just won't work for me. I didn't feel safe, and it was tiring to drive. Was squirrely at HWY speeds and add any wind or weather into the equation and lets just say it was really hard too keep it on the road.

So we went car shopping one day. We tried a number of vehicles from cars to trucks.

I loved the Tundra truck but sadly they could not find any used 08's any where in the Northwest. And that same problem followed us at every lot we looked at.

There is a serious shortage of good used cars, or used cars period around here.

We were shown this Honda Pilot, high miles on it but pretty clean and neat inside and out. And goodness, does it ever drive 100% better than the Element.

Not getting knocked around in the wind or anything else is nothing short of wonderful.

So here is our new to us, used 2008 Honda Pilot.

Plus to this one, is the gas mileage is the same as the Element and it has a much higher cargo weight capacity than the E, something we really need. Plus it will tow 4,500lbs. Which will great in the future.

Evergreen Air Museum

The Spruce Goose and family. The thing is so big, is impossible to get it all in one shot. ;O)

Enjoying the Air and Space Museum, both DH and DS really enjoyed themselves.

Like this Plane enough, will be made into a painting at some point.

Inside of the Spruce Goose.

They had to try out the F111 Trainer... which didn't work sadly. For what one pays to go to this museum, stuff should work.

Remember seeing these fighters taking off at NAS Alameda. And is another plane that will end up being painted.

Trying to land the Rover, DS did a great job and they said that is he the type of person they would hire.

DH.... well lets say........... I love him anyway. ;O)

Those old plane seats were pretty comfy.

The Last week we were Stationed at NAS Miramar, the then" Top Gun " base, I saw one of these landing. Was incredibly impressive.

Last but not least, a piece of the Berlin Wall.

It wonderful do go on a mini Vacation with DH and DS, we had a great time.