Post Cards from the Desert

This post card reminds me of the time we were in Portland on New Years Eve 1999, we were on the Max riding down town to ring in the new year with the kids. The train was packed and we were all dressed for a fun evening in the city! Just like this post card. Read on to find out more.

I have lived here in Central Oregon since the early 80's, I really didn't appreciate the desert until Glenn came into my life. He showed me another side of dirt and sage brush, I have since travelled through and around more of the Central Oregon desert then I could ever imagined. I have camped, explored, hiked, watched jets fly under the radar, and even got into a June Bug hatch. Glenn goes to the desert more then I do and when he goes without me he usually brings me home some treasure that he has found. I have received presents that he has restored or just gave me with the desert dirt still attached. There has been times when I was given bones or some hairy dead thing that I didn't except. I don't think I hurt his feelings it makes him laugh more then anything. But there also has been times when he brought me home a really good find. Take this box that was just laying in the dirt out in the middle of nowhere. I just love the postcards, I have not used them I just keep them in a drawer, so I can take them out every now and then just to look at them. I wonder if Glenn even remembers finding them? So the next time you are driving down the road and all you see is Central Oregon Desert, take a really good look around because you never know what you will find.

This is the box with all the cards.

These cards look like where someone has been. These cards are the "women" in the person that owned the box before me.

Faith and beyond!

Above left must be favorite actors, to the right is what I can see as their "rights".

To the left is the kid in all of us.

This card is one on my favorites on the back of the card it says, "THE MARRIAGE 1989", it looks like to me they are on a hill by the ocean and Dracula is performing a wedding?? So weird, I really like this one. I have added some cards to the box and who knows maybe some day I will have Glenn take me to where he found them in the desert and I will put the box back for someone else to enjoy like I have. In the mean time if you are ever over to my house and you want to see my box of desert cards please ask I just love to show them to people and listen to their responses to the cards.

2008 Family Reunion

Every year Glenn's Dad has a family reunion at his home. Every one in the family comes to enjoy a Sunday afternoon in August together. Over the few years I have been going I have watched the kids grow up to be fine young adults, I have had the privilege of getting to know Glenn's brothers and sister and their spouses they like to tell me about the situations Glenn has got them into. The Aunts like to talk about the past and what it was like growing up, the food is wonderful, there is always a variety to eat. Since we travel from Central Oregon to West Salem we usually stop at Costco and get a pie, everyone seems to like it in the late afternoon. This year we went to the berry patch and I found out for the 1st time that Glenn's favorite berry is boysenberry's until then I thought his favorite was blackberry's oh well you find out something new every once in a while about your spouse. That's what keeps life interesting. What a nice time we had!

Morning Thunder and Lightning

Thursday 5/07/08 at 10am




Wow I have not seen lightning and heard thunder like I just did here in Redmond before. I could hear the thunder coming but I could not see any lightening until it got right over our house. My camera went dead right when I went out side, so I used Glenn's camera and I was only able to get one shot of the lightning I was to slow the rest of the time. I really need a tri-pod, I got soaking wet (don't worry Glenn your camera is OK I put it under my shirt) and I was really scared because the thunder was so loud it shook the windows in the house. Our Dog Juniper Berry is under our bed and she won't come out, she has never done this before, I guess I will just leave her there until she is good and ready to not be such a scardy cat, ha ha. It is funny I hear the thunder in the distance and the sirens are continuous around our house, very weird feeling, this is! Well here is the photo I was able to get taken right from the front door at the corner of the house.

Brooks & Dunn Concert

Hot Air Balloon going over the Old Mill before the concert.

I have always been a fan of Brooks & Dunn, I have gone to 3 of their concerts one in Seattle then when I lived in the Portland area and last night I got to enjoy them right here where I live. I was so excited when I found out they were coming to Bend, I think I have had the tickets for about 3 months. I really appreciate Glenn going with me, he probably only listens to their music because I like it, I think that is real nice of him. The weather was HOT, and with the sun going down over the mountains it made it even HOTTER but as soon as the concert started I seemed to forget about the heat. I hope they enjoyed playing in Central Oregon as much as I liked going to their concert. I will let the photos show you how much fun I had.

Both Brooks and Dunn to the left performing one of my favorite songs. The back drops made it very easy to see no matter where you sat.

I took these photos with micro zoom on , I am glad they turned out as well as they did. During this song, they brought out Soldiers from the different armed forces, very well done I thought. I can't wait until the next time, Thanks for coming to Bend.

Game of Scrabble

My Husband set up a chess board in his office at work some time ago. The people he works with have started chess games and Glenn has had fun and a challenge playing through the game. I heard him once even talk to his son Micah about a game he had going in his office. The other day the CEO's of the business he works for was visiting, when they came into Glenn's office one of them showed an interest in the chess board.The Guy challenged Glenn to a game the next time he was in town. Glenn said sure, I don't know if that was a good move or not. Especially those of us that know Glenn's past with corporate executives I would call it a pretty colorful past, but I guess he did not learn or should I say he sometimes has to learn the hard way. I have had fun listening to Glenn talk about his chess board and it seems to bring some sort of spark in his voice when he talks about it. Since I don't know how to play chess I am going try something else at home. I have set up a scrabble board, with 2 players playing, each day you have to add a word to the board that fits but to make it interesting it has to be a word you heard that day. That's the house rules! How about it Glenn are you up for a good old game of scrabble? BJ

Happy Birthday Lucille Ball

You know how you have someone you have admired as a little girl. I have always admired Lucille Ball, she is one special Lady. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Ball, Her early movies are just as good as her weekly TV shows she had in the 1960's every Monday night. This short worded site tells her film career really well,http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/ball_l.html.
When ever I have been asked to talk about someone I have admired that wasn't directly in my life I would always talk about Lucy, she was a very smart Lady, a great business woman.



HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you Lucy, you will always be in my life as someone I really appreciated knowing through books and TV, I hope I am half the woman you are and I will always admire you!

Kadie and I at Madame Tussauds wax museum in Las Vegas.

pitching a tent

Champagne makes everything all better, read on...

Happy 7Th Anniversary!

We went up century drive with our camping gear to spend the night. We really don't worry were we will pitch our tent because Central Oregon is filled with places to camp if you are the type of person who doesn't need to stay in a camp ground, which we are that type.



We are fans of the broken top area but we knew that it was early in the season and the unmaintained road you take in to the base area could still be closed due to snow. Well not only was the gate up but there were big bolder rocks in front of the gate making Glenn nervous that they are going to close the road completely for the season or who knows how long. If that is the case we will have a 5 to 7 mile walk to our base camp where we are use to driving into it. This is not a good sign. But I won't worry about that right now, so we went to sparks lake to see if there was a spot, even though both of us knowing there probably wouldn't be. We were right, the whole area was full at least to our liking. So then we went on a powerline road (if you haven't been on a powerline road before you need to experience this just make sure you are in a jeep) not finding a good camping spot we went onto little Cultus Lake it was full also. Now we move onward 7 miles on a one way dirt road to Irish Taylor Lakes. The mosquito's were as thick as a cloud and we were in the jeep topless (the jeeps top was off)... So we left as quickly as you can on a dirt one way road. We decided to go down some logging road and see what we would find. We ended up somewhere on look out butte road, at 1st I really didn't like the spot until the music started playing and the champagne started flowing in due time this area became a really good camping spot. The stars were bright at least until about 2am then the moon came out and dimmed the starry night sky. Yes this evening at times got tense and Glenn was getting anxious trying to make sure the nightwould be perfect. Even though we felt it was hopeless at times and we were wondering if we were going to have a good evening, we did. The night camping was great, we even call the evening fun and exciting. Now we look back at the photos and laugh and situation we were in. We are still nervous about the boulders blocking the road we take to our paradise every summer, but maybe the next time we go there the boulders will be gone and the snow melted enough to get there. Even after scouting for a camping spot for 3 hours I still like to walk out of work and see Glenn waiting for me in the Jeep with all our camping gear, knowing we are heading somewhere into the mountains or sometimes to the desert for a good old night of camping our way....
This car was on the one lane road to Irish Taylor Lakes, I see this as a red flag, what about you? Glenn after the tent is pitched and he realizes everything with turn out OK!I have this weired thing about having this sheet around me when I don't really know where we are and it gets dark. I guess you could call this my protective sheet cape thing! It hasn't let me down yet.The next morning I found these little flowers growing along the downed trees. They almost look like a berry.