As expected, it rained most of the fourth dimension during our getaway to Cape Disappointment this past times week. We arrived domicile yesterday. Most everything is unpacked, but at that topographic point are nonetheless a few things to pose away. We left inwards fog, although it was belike a depression flight cloud hovering at the top of our hill. When nosotros crossed over the coastal mount range, the Sun was waiting on the other side.
We nonetheless had quite a distance to go, but eventually nosotros crossed what Mike calls the "tall, scary bridge" across the oral fissure of the Columbia River into Washington.
On the Oregon side, the duet is tall too high higher upwardly the H2O to allow ocean-going vessels to top under.
To our correct was the Columbia River too several ships awaiting river guides to direct maintain them upwardly the Columbia too into the ports at Longview too Portland.
To our left...the Pacific Ocean.
Straight ahead, the duet flattens out, unopen to the water, across this huge expanse of river.
On the far side, i enters the nation of Washington.
From there, it's only close one-half an hr through the coastal communities of Chinook, Washington, too Ilwaco, Washington, to Cape Disappointment State Park. It's amid our favorite of the nation parks available to us inwards Oregon too Washington.
Here, I direct maintain to exhibit you lot Mike's ingenious solution for the catio window. The occupation is that when the conditions is cold, mutual depression temperature air passes inwards where the kitties become out. Mike taped upwardly some heavy plastic alongside slits cutting thus the kitties could top inwards too out, but it prevented most of the mutual depression temperature air current (and rain) from blowing into the trailer. It worked perfectly.
He has a invention to role a canvas of plexiglass alongside a regular kitty door mounted inwards the middle equally a permanent solution to this problem, but that volition direct maintain a piddling longer. For this trip, the combination of plastic too duct record worked similar a charm.
By the fourth dimension nosotros were fix inwards our site, the fog had rolled inwards again. We walked out on the beach, but it wasn't terribly inviting. To the north, nosotros could encounter the North Head Lighthouse.
We didn't rest long, too ended upwardly walking around the campground a piddling bit. The moisture conditions has produced a woods of large mushrooms.
Some are to a greater extent than photogenic than others.
We'd seen too heard Coast Guard helicopters out practicing maneuvers, too when nosotros heard this i come upwardly thus unopen to where nosotros were, nosotros headed dorsum out to the beach to direct maintain a look. Cool!
It took us a piece to figure out what they were doing, exactly. The airplane pilot could concur this helicopter thus steady despite the driving wind, you lot mightiness intend he was parked on some kind of unseen surface at that topographic point inwards the sky. In the paradigm below, you lot tin encounter somebody sitting inwards the doorway.
Below were some people staked out on this cliff side. We're told this is a pop house for them to exercise because of the petroleum surf too the cliffs.
And nosotros watched them plough this means too that too hover dangerously unopen to the the world (not to lift the lighthouse).
And too thus nosotros watched them lowering too raising somebody from the helicopter.
That's non scary...right?
Down below, they appeared to live rescuing a dummy.
After a while, they came really unopen to where nosotros were standing too turned the helicopter to the correct too the left.
If you lot intend I took a lot of pictures of the helicopter, you lot would live right.
Occasionally, I pose downwards the photographic television set camera too waved my arm wildly. Eventually, the airplane pilot waved back, which thrilled me to no end.
We stood watching them for close an hr earlier nosotros got mutual depression temperature too headed dorsum to the trailer.
While nosotros were out there, I noticed this bully lean-to somebody had built alongside driftwood.
Here's how it looked from the other side. There was a large surface area toward the dorsum where somebody to a greater extent than intrepid than I could campsite overnight if they wanted to.
Back at the trailer, Smitty too I enjoyed a loving cup of espresso, too and thus I said, "Hey...I intend I'll only charge these cups into the dishwasher!"
And wow...that was a gas.
Only, nosotros had to express joy at ourselves when nosotros wanted to run it through its commencement existent launder bike because we'd completely forgotten to instruct whatsoever dishwasher soap. Doh!
Here's a written report inwards contrasts: Smitty relaxed on the couch.
Sadie looking surprised, equally usual.
It rained almost all twenty-four hours our instant day, but nosotros drove to a parking surface area where nosotros could encounter the Cape Disappointment Lighthouse. You mightiness recall I showed some pictures from the other side of the river on our trip to Fort Stevens concluding month.
Here, I've zoomed inwards on it a little. It looks equally if it could role a betoken job.
Later inwards the afternoon, I baked a Dutch Apple Pie for Two. We had our "First Friday" dessert on Wednesday. You won't say anyone, volition you?
We didn't heed the rain. I spent the twenty-four hours finishing upwardly the commencement Appalachian Memories barn.
And I sewed the binding on The More the Marinarier. That makes a finish.
And I got quite a fight done on the tenth Snow Globes block.
This was my sentiment for most of the day.
Or else this:
The Sun came out the adjacent twenty-four hours too Smitty got out for his i too solely walk of the trip.
We were able to move out for a walk, too the lighthouse looked much prettier inwards the sunshine.
There's some other edifice to its right.
I've written close this construction when nosotros visited previously. It tin live rented out for overnight stays, parties, weddings, etc.
Here's a zoomed inwards sentiment of the lighthouse.
In the other direction, the Coast Guard was at it again, hovering perilously unopen to the H2O too practicing who knows what. In the paradigm below, you lot tin encounter the spray beingness produced past times the helicopter blades.
There was some other helicopter circling around too.
On our walk, I took pictures of a few piddling things. This was some kind of gelatinous blob of something. It was close equally large equally a dime.
Sea gull feather.
Here's a large tree to a greater extent than oft than non submerged inwards the sand.
This was the commencement appearance of our shadow selves on the trip.
On the means dorsum the trailer, this piddling aeroplane was taking wages of the puddles for a squeamish bath.
Soon it was fourth dimension to caput for domicile again. You tin encounter the "tall, scary bridge" off inwards the distance there. It isn't equally tall too scary on the Washington side.
And at that topographic point nosotros are again...back inwards our domicile nation of Oregon.
And that was our trip.
It's fourth dimension to laid a goal for November's OMG. You mightiness yell back this quilt top called Wind inwards the Whiskers, finished eons ago. I sandwiched it for quilting to a greater extent than than a yr ago, too I've been dreading it ever since. It nonetheless needs all those fiddly appliques stitched down, too and thus a piddling fight of quilting inwards some of the larger background areas.
It's a large quilt, too also much to destination inwards a unmarried calendar month I'm afraid. For November, I'm committing to doing the sections I've outlined inwards pinkish inwards the paradigm below.
If I instruct further than that, all the better, but for my Nov goal...just the pinked-in section. I'll salvage the destination for the Dec party.
So that brings you lot too me upwardly to date. Today I'll destination unpacking, too and thus do something inwards the sewing room. There's belike something on the housework calendar too, but I haven't taken the fourth dimension to aspect yet. I missed you lot guys! The trip was a wonderful diversion, but it's ever practiced to live dorsum domicile again.