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Jul 4, 2011 - Independence Day at the beach.
Up early to go check the beach for flotsam with low tide at 9am. Nothing found though. Uncle Carl cooked up a big breakfast and we headed to the couches for a nap or two.... Then back to the beach with the kites. Gina and Jimmie had two kites from Uncle Jim and I had my Trilby's and my new Prism foil. Great wind for kites. All the kites made it into the air although Jimmie's looked like a Charlie Brown kite when he was done. Karen ended up cutting the string to retie it. My foil is extremely quick so I am happy. We took the kids to...
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Jul 3, 2011 - To the beach
Heading NW we are on the way to Uncle Carl's beach cabin on the Washington penninsula. On the way we took the ferry across the Columbia River to get to Astoria. Once in Astoria we went to the Astoria Column to climb to the top to see the entire harbor where the Columbia meets the Pacific Ocean. Karen, Jimmie, Gina and I all climbed to the top of the 125 foot tower and managed to shuffle to the edge to look over for Uncle Carl to take a picture of us on top. 176 steps up. Again, I am sure I was quicker last time up a few years ago. Karen...
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Feb 26, 2010 - Clam Digging, again
Today, we headed over to Mom & Dad’s this morning, Debi was going to hang out with Mom and Scott went with Dad to accompany him on one of his runs. Debi went through a box of old pictures, that she is going to start scanning into the computer so that Mom & Dad can have them digitally for their digital picture frame and their computer. So many pictures that have been haven’t been seen in many years, some of when Mom was a young girl, and then others of Debi, her brother C. Paul and sister Jo, as they were growing up. Talk about a trip down...
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