Off to Mt. Shasta

My son and I leave in the morning for ArrowCorp5, a Boy ScoutOrder of the Arrow service project in Shasta-Trinity.  We are packed and ready for a great adventure!  I am still using my honeymoon backpack and tent ~~ 22 years later and it shows what taking care of gear means!   My pack is weighing in at 35 lbs without food and tools. 

The duffel stays at our base camp while we are out in the back country doing trail maintenance and my yellow bag holds my hand piecing for the drive to and from.  Yes, there is a little pack of hand quilting for the trail.  We return in a week!

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30 inches in three years

In 2005, several of us backpacked 50 miles in the Olympic National Park.  I don’t know what I was thinking, but I brought along some hand piecing.  There wasn’t nearly as much time as I had thought there would be to relax.  Today, nearly three years later the last stitch was sewn.  This piece is 30″ square.  It was hand pieced and machine quilted.

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Here is a picture of a glacial fed river, the Elwha.  It was absolutely gorgeous there.

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Saturday, my son and I leave on Arrowcorp 5, with Boy Scout’s Order of the Arrow.  It is a service project in Shasta-Trinity.  We are packed and, yes, I do have a piecing project to stuff into my backpack as well as handwork to do on the drive down and back.  Later in the summer, we have a short 20 mile pack and then will do the Timberline Loop around Mt. Hood.  Since part of the trail is washed out from a few  years ago, we’ll enter at Tilly Jane in the northeast corner and travel clockwise.  Hopefully, the snow will melt by then.

Fourth of July

Here are a few scenes from our town’s 4th of July parade.  There were 140 entrants and it lasted about two hours.  My daughter and her husband’s family joined us for a great morning!

 

Back in June, we scored four tickets to the Olympic Trials in Eugene on the 4th!  We had a great night.  Our older son’s friend who is a U of Oregon student joined us.

And here is another journal art quilt that I made for our friends whose cabin we visited a few weekends ago.

Wildwood Trail in Forest Park

Yesterday, we did a 9.5 mile hike in Forest Park.  It is great because it is a short 40 minute drive to get there.  Plus, there are some nice hills to make us feel like we really did something!  My husband, son and our Scouting friend (and boxer) braved the heat.

800 meters as a Senior

My husband ran his first meet of the season today.  He is now a “senior” in the 50 - 54 age group.  It’s a hot day here in the 90’s and he ran a 2:26 800 meters.  Pretty good I’d say!  He has timeto get his time down before the UST&F Master’s Meet in Spokane mid August.  Here he is in third place on the back stretch.  They ran all 40 - 59 year olds together.

Here he is finishing the first lap.

Eagle Project cont.

This week, my husband and son went out to the lake to get the last plank on the tables for the Eagle Project.  This was the plank that vandals threw into the lake.   

As a thank you to the ranger, I made up this small journal art quilt.  It is about 12″ square.  My husband said he was very touched.  The picture was taken by a fellow Scout dad.

Weekend near Mt. Hood

We joined two other couples at a cabin near Mt. Hood.  It belongs to one of the couples and is a great get away.  Throughout the weekend, we played games, hot tubbed, hiked (sometimes in a little snow), went to church and just had a great time together!

   

Journal Quilt

I purchased the book, CREATIVE QUILTING The Journal Quilt Project by Karey Bresenhan, and immediately created a journal page.  Here are two 8.5″ x 11″ pieces I had fun creating on my sewing machine with a little help from Corel Paint Shop and a weekend picture of my son.

 

 

Eagle Creek Hike

Friday morning we drove to Eagle Creek in the Columbia Gorge, hiked and spent the night.  Today, we hiked to Tunnel Falls which is 12 miles round trip.  Since we are preparing for a long hike on Mt. Hood late summer, we took our backpacks filled.

 

Eagle Project coming to a close…

Saturday was another long day working on my son’s Eagle Scout project.  We were at the lake from 9 - 6 and 130 hours were put in by our friends and fellow scouts.  Four tables were reassembled.  To do this, many of the posts needed to be dug out and replaced.  Three tables were at the end of one trail and another around the lake.  Two of the planks for that table were thrown in the lake by vandals ~~ one was retrieved and one remains somewhere in Hagg Lake.  We left Saturday with the tables primed where paint needs to be touched up.  Sunday he and my husband went out to paint, but two of the tables were in use, so I’ll go out later this week with my daycare children on a “painting” field trip.

 

Below is one of the Scouts using the router.