Another busy week...

We joined almost two dozen neighbors...geo trackers, pickups & quads...on a ride north to the Big Eye mine. It was a great time, except those of us on quads didn't know where we were going. We rode behind the vehicles at a reeeeallly slow pace. Coming back we led at a much faster pace.














It was a heck of a good time except for the flat tire we got going into the parking area. What a bummer! And to top it off, we had to buy a brand new tire to replace it paying the dang sales tax, and it didn't match the other three tires.

The four of us in the picture are the only ones who managed the 1/2 mile hike uphill to the mine. We used our little maglights and our nifty baseball hats with LEDs in the bill and did a peak inside. But it's pretty old and the roof (?) is not real well supported, therefore we only ventured a hundred feet or so inside. Bonus: it felt really refreshing to go inside the cool air after our hot walk up to it.

Saturday was the annual Hank's Day parade. Hank and his wife are both dead now. Their pictures are at the beginning of the parade sitting in a big ol' front loader. The parade isn't a big one, but lots of fun. It has the usual rodeo queen and attendants...old cars...Shriners and their funny vehicles...Red Hat ladies looking pretty silly...and we filled our pockets with all the candy thrown. We're darn good senior citizen beggars...lol

Also on Saturday Norman and I joined a couple hundred geocachers in the Old Town Square and blew bubbles for about 10 minutes. We FILLED the air with shiny bubbles. And we got to count this little event as a cache "found". Great fun....

Then on Sunday we joined over 350 geocachers for a poker run along the Colorado River...the a bbq tri-tip dinner. We were among the first to finish the poker run, so sat and played a couple games of cribbage in the sunshine while waiting for our noon dinner. Nope...didn't win good hands. And we didn't win any of the raffles, but our non-cachers, who attended with us, won a nice ammo can. They gave it to us, so we'll be thinking about hiding another cache one day soon.

Here we are...Buckshot & Foxy and Duck1 & Duck 2...before all the big crowd finally arrived. I gave Bob and Jan their geocache names. We had to register that way, and, of course, they had never done it before...Appropriate names for a couple of Eugene residents.