Fall is in the air....actually, all that I smell this morning is that nasty grass fire that is burning outside of town, but it's coming and I can tell. Tuesday we drove to Cascade to stay with Matt. All of the logging crew and family are staying at Clear Creek, which is about 7 miles outside of Cascade. It was a fairly nice place, good for the kids so we did a lot of "exploring", treasure hunting, and playing in a nicely located sand pile. I finished a book and a half while they played in the sand, so it was a good time. Yesterday they got up at 6. I don't know what the excitement is about waking up in the trailer, but they were ready to get up and get outside. It was freezing. I made them wait while I drank two cups of tea to get warmer outside, but to no prevail. We bundled up and headed out. By 10:00 am we were bored with that space, so we drove to McCall to look for some beaches, but in reality, there's a great craft/quilt shop up there that I love to go to. Unfortunately, Tucker hates shops that involved crafts, decor, clothing, or anything other than toys or food. We didn't last very long because I didn't want to have to pay McCalls's prices on something if he chose to throw up on it.
We ate lunch at Lardo's, which is delicious, but spendy. Tucker had a $5.00 hot dog. I swear, I can understand on other foods, but a hot dog is a hot dog. Oh well. Then we drove around looking for a beach, but there were so many people and my dog is out of hand so we decided we were more "Cascade" type beach people and drove back with the kids saying "How much longer to the beach?" the whole 30 minutes. We went down by the main dock in Cascade and again, the kids were fascinated with exploring, the water was shallow so they could wade around, and I read my book. Wonderful until Cameron brought me a dead fish head and wanted to know where his eyes were.
We left about 3:30 to drive home and it was 82 degrees in Cascade, it was 98 when we got back to Emmett. It was an absolutely beautiful drive home. Love late summer drives in the mountains. I always have to put on the Fleetwood Mac CD The Dance while I drive windy roads. And of course that makes me turn off the A/C and put the windows down and just appreciate nature and good music. I bought that CD when I was driving back and forth between Montana and Idaho during college, it just says "Road Trip" to me. So do that Dixie Chicks CD's but they were at my house. It's amazing how reminiscent I'm getting with music and I'm only 28! Imagine what I"ll be like when I'm old.
And speaking of being reminiscent, I have a new project that I'm working on. My life story. I've decided that I have reached a point where I have some stories to tell (and some that I will still keep quiet) and some advice and wisdom to give. I think for the most part people wait until they're too old to record their stories and of course perpspectives change, advice will change, and we will ultimately grow wiser. I want my unwise, younger day perspective to be heard and recorded. I think it will be amazing to go back and read it when I am old and wise. So, I've found a life story kind of fill in the blank book and I'm working on my own version. I'm sure CAmeron will love it when she turns 28 and wants to see what I was doing then. I can just hear the sighs now. It's bad enough her entire life is documented in scrapbooks, but now, she can read what I have to say about life. Poor girl. I can't help it, I love to document life. I think that everybody has a story to tell and sometimes I think we're all missing a huge opportunity by not telling those stories. It's so easy to forget the little things.
And, because I ramble a lot when I'm not posting pics of the kids, my goal tonight is to get my photos of July and August downloaded and post some new pics. ENOUGH of this philosophy bullshit, we all just want to see some pics of cute kids!
Have a great day! We're off to Music and Movement class and then home for laundry and cleaning.
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