Memorial Day Weekend Adventures!

The weather today in Maupin, Oregon was just so perfect...sunny with a light breeze. What a great day for a holiday. I woke up thinking about Memorial Day or as it used to be called, Decoration Day.
A day when we should remember all those who served in our military and especially all who gave their lives for freedom. We tend to forget that when we get to have a fun holiday weekend! I've been watching several PSB shows about WWI recently. It's hard to watch them but it makes you realize the sacrifices that were made in that war and all the others that have followed. Sobering.... It's also a day to remember our loved ones who are no longer with us. So many good memories.
Jim and I began this journey last Thursday when we left home for central Oregon. We like to stop at the Pastime Saloon in Dufur...yes, Dufur! Love their hamburgers.

We arrived in Maupin about 3:30 PM and I was delighted to visit with my dear friend Marni and her boys...Zane and Eli. I got to see Sam the new bunny, the garden, the club house and just had fun catching up on everything. Oh, so good to spend time with friends.  This is what greeted us when we walked into our cabin #5...

Don't you love the flower beds? Actually, I guess they would be called veggie beds! A cute idea.

 

It was fun to watch the boys playing outside in their club house and just being kids, running around, playing games and just having a great time outside.

I love this one of Eli....pretty good life! Here he is hanging upside down inside the club house.

And then there's Zane....5th grade, all boy and funnier than all heck!

Jim and I are honorary Aunt and Uncle to these kids and we love them! We've been around them from their beginnings and they have been so much fun to for us! We love ya guys!

Friday was spent with Peggy and Al up in Pine Hollow. I forgot to take pictures, but I can share the fun. Peggy and Al took us for a little tour of the area, which is beautiful, and we had lunch at the Anglers. We had time to sit and talk and get caught up too. Peggy had hip surgery in April and she's doing really well with her recovery. Jim's been through that and it's a long recovery.We were happy to see her progress and wish her a very speedy recovery. We got to go to some garage sales and had a blast. The day went by so quickly!

It was up early on Saturday morning to meet my niece Desi and her husband Don and their two darling kids Isabelle and Peyton for breakfast at the Pine Hollow Grange Hall. We used to meet them
there before they had kids on Memorial Day. It's a fund raiser breakfast and it's always yummy and lots of fun. It was also Don birthday! Here's a great bunch of pictures that capture the fun we all had!

Here's Uncle Jim being funny and Aunt Linda loving having a little one to cuddle up to!

The city of Maupin was having their annual River Rest festival, so we wanted to take the kids.
I'm sorry that I missed getting a photo of Peyton hanging from a rope at the top of the rock climb! No fear at all! I was busy shopping with Isabelle. Here's the kids with a giant snow cone-oh, to be a kid!

 After a fun time at the festable (as Peyton called it) we headed back to Pine Hollow to visit with Desi's grandparents Leon and Peggy.  My other niece Anna and her husband Matt were there too so we really enjoyed a short visit with them.

This is the lake on Leon and Peggy's property! Their place is just beautiful. This is Desi's picture that I "borrowed" off of Facebook.

Later that evening, Jim and I went back to River Fest for dinner. It just poured rain and we had to take shelter under the tents to eat our meal. The rains finally let up and we had such a great evening chatting with Mike and Gloria McLucas. They will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on June 9th. Congrats to you both! You are the cutest couple we know...keep it up you two love birds!
We met their granddaughter Emi and what fun we had with her! She is Zane and Eli's cousin. We certainly had our kid fix this weekend. JOY JOY JOY!
PS...Gloria posted a picture of her granddaughter and her with their face painting on Facebook, so I'm "borrowing" another picture again. Hope you don't mind Gloria, it's just so cute and I want to share!

Comment frustration!

I've had some extra time to read and enjoy lots of my blog friend's lovely posts! I am so frustrated as I can't leave comments on several of them! I'm not sure if it's the hook up where we are staying or what, but it makes me sad! I hope when I get back home I can solve this problem.
Oh a happier note, Jim and I are having so much fun visiting our friends~it's so nice to be retired and have fun to learn how to actually visit and enjoy spending time with people. Thanks Peggy and Al for sharing the day with us and for lunch!
Have a safe and happy Memorial Day weekend.

Teacup Thursday # 59 and Off to the Deschutes!

Yes, another busy week! Jim and I are going over to the Deschutes River for a few days and we are so excited. We haven't been over to the Oasis for quite awhile. We get to stay in our favorite cabin...cabin #5. I've been thinking of our friends that we are going to get to see and spend time with this weekend.
Our friends Mark and Marni own and run the resort. We're excited to see their boys, Zane and Eli and their new bunny.

I had to work really hard on my Etsy so that I could slip away for awhile. Later this year I hope to have my cottage all set up as my studio and a good place to run my Etsy business but for now, I just have to organize my items so I can easily find my merchandise when it sells.

And once again it's time for Teacup Thursday! As I'm short on time, I thought I'd show off a little demitasse cup and saucer that a friend from the past gave me. It's so sweet and floral and I have always loved it.

I recently picked up this little tea book, just the right size for this sweet little cup and saucer. It's so cute.

I love this section and it's title..."My friends are my estates"....says a lot, right? I have a special rose that is blooming right now from another friend-Colette. She sent me a tiny slip of this rose and I babied it for two years in a coffee can. She rustles roses and collects them. It has been quite rainy today, so I had to snap this picture quicky! It's such a pretty color.

My roses are trying to bloom and the garden is filling it, despite the wet and chilly weather. I'm not sure where the sun has gone!

I found this sweet little cup earlier this spring at an estate sale. It's so delicate. Jim gifted me with this little bird a few years ago. He moves it all around and I never know when I'm going to find the sweet thing! Isn't this little "strawberry" pin keep darling too? It's made from an old linen.

Well, I need to get packing...the suitcases are waiting! Off for some fishing, friends and lots of fun. Have a great holiday weekend. Don't forget to remember your loved ones this Memorial Day weekend.

A Simple Life

My summer copy of A SIMPLE LIFE magazine arrived recently. It's such a delightful and well done magazine that I so enjoy. I really am torn between the primitive style and the Victorian era...I appreciate and love so many things from each time period. I'm glad I have my tearoom so I can just go crazy with Victorian treasures! This issue has a great article by one of my Tasha Tudor friends, Amy Lesser, done with Tasha Tudor's daughter Bethany Tudor. Interesting story about starling birds. I
have to admit that even after reading the article, I still don't like starlings!

Fun and yummy recipes are included~

Another Tasha Tudor friend from our group is Christine Crocker. She is a wonderful writer who adds great stories to the magazine too. Christine is an amazing doll maker. She is making me one of her little ladyes thanks to my husband! She sent sent me a pictures of my new doll, my I don't want to share her yet. I will say that that I am thrilled with her creation for me and can't wait to get my hands on the new doll! Christine is so sweet and so talented!

I was looking for some rustic looking candles and found some on Etsy. I ordered them from Kentucky Prims and when I got my wonderful candles, Angela had added a darling little prim fabric sunflower! It will make a great pinkeep.

It rained here today and spoiled our chance to break a record for the longest sequence of dry days in May! I was hoping to do some planting, instead we went to a few sales. I found the most wonderful
primitive doll hutch! It's adorable! My dear husband dickered and bought it for me....thanks Jim! After we bought it, the seller told us he had gotten it from Herself's. Jim and I just looked at each other and couldn't believe it. We had just had a conversation about Herself's the other morning. It was a wonderful antique shoppe at Lincoln City OR that we always went to when we made a trip to the coast. She was so sweet and gave the girls something every time we went it. It's odd to think that maybe I looked at this years ago. She's been out of business for years and the seller told us he had had it for sometime.
Here it is before I added a few kitchen treasures.

Last January, I found some very cute tin kitchen items and I couldn't wait to add them to my little hutch! I had a little ironstone teapot and I just had to add it to the goodies.

Another fun Sunday and the beginning of another busy week. We'll be off to Maupin later this week.