Pasta Time

Move Over Betty Crocker

Beauty remains

My heaven on earth, Maui oh how I do love you

Change is in the wind

Life has a funny way of throwing you for a loop when you least expect it. Summer has left us and turned to fall and

I have been so preoccupied with my crazy life that I have neglected my sweet little blog I started awhile back, boy I had big plans for this photo blog. So here I am again with the urge to share photo's and write, actually the desire never really goes away it is forever present that's why I keep saying there is a book in me, putting it on paper is whole different monster. Maybe it will happen when I retire on a beach somewhere someday, I'll keep ya posted.

On the road again

Food How I Do Love Thee

I seem to have fallen in love with food and cooking again, be still my heart look at this awesome looking clams in a white sauce dish, one of my faves for sure

Grilling time

Spring is here

Away

  Been away for a bit, life seems to come at you full speed if you take your eye's off of your target for one second. I will be refocusing my efforts this year to accomplish all that I have set out to do. I have a big year ahead of me, come join me on my interesting journey I promise you will not be bored.

Stranger Than Fiction

Have you ever had a week that was so weird, strange that it just left you shaking your head? That was this past week for me. I can say one thing about it, I don't ever want to repeat it. Period.

Life is a very strange thing

I just realized that when things are difficult in life that laughter is like a salve, it soothes the soul, at least for me it does. Driving down the freeway listening to comedy on the radio and found myself literally laughing out loud always makes my day a littler better.

Feeling artsy fartsy

Oregon Coast

I never get tired of this place

In a Pickle

   How do some folks get themselves into a big mess and they drag their kids into it as well. The pic of the bus earlier was that of a family that had broke down on the Oregon coast and was standing on a corner asking for help. we drove by without stopping then later we saw this crazy looking bus that I wanted to take a pic of but I thought I should ask first, so I went and knocked on the bus and the door opened and there stood the girl with the baby on her back that we had saw earlier on the corner. I talked to her for a bit , super nice girl, down on their luck with engine problems and stuff. I wished her and her partner and their 3 kids well and walked away. My soul started to bother me, I told Scott wait, and I jumped out of the truck and ran back to the bus and knocked on the door...

   The young woman opened the bus door and I said I wanted to come back and give you something, she was staring at me now, I know it's not much I said and I handed her some money, and no it was not much but from the very bottom of my heart I hoped that this little bit of kindness on my part would help her little family in some way. I really wish I could have done more. I could tell she was quite surprised and moved by my coming back, she was very grateful and appreciative. Yeah I know some would call me a sucker but I never ever  regret being kind, but I often regret it when I am unkind.
  Has there ever been a time you wanted to help someone but just wasn't sure what they would do with your gift? Yeah me too, I just do it any way.
 

My How things Change

     I walked into my office today and went to get something out of the file cabinet and noticed piece of paper that said my vision board and on it I had taped a picture of two big beautiful homes . It was a few years ago when I hung those up and I had to take them down today because I realized that my feelings about stuff and things have changed drastically thanks to a few life altering events over the last few years.

   I have come to realize that I really only need a few things to survive and be happy, good friends, healthy food and good wine and I'm a happy girl. I know lots of people want lots of things and lot's of stuff but not this girl. I shall be content with a lot less the rest of my life, my how things are a changing. 

Today is my birthday,

Yup today is my birthday and someone said how come you didn't tell me that ?well, I have always felt that I'm not that special and the woman that gave birth to me should be who we are celebrating. So cheers to my mother.

Day three and hot as hell

Here we sit in the Central Oregon valley in scorching heat waiting for night fall to get some relief from the heat. 

  High light to our morning and afternoon was seeing antipope running around, they are truly beautiful creatures, I think I want to pet one.

Cabin Lake camp ground

Today we visited Cabin Lake camp ground, we thought because of the name that it just might be a decent place, but oh no, it was just as crappy as Hole In The Ground, who in their right mind is putting these kinda places on maps as places to visit? Crazy folk I'm sure.

  Cabin lake has no damn lake, in fact it has no water at all and it's not even an attractive boon docking spot. So once again, skip it save your gas and your time, big thumbs down from this gal.  

Hole in the Ground

Yes that is the actual name of this place that is on a map, though I feel it should not be on any map, it is just a big dirty 

un beautiful place, in other words it is as ugly as sin. Here is my advice don't waste your gas or your time on this place.

Worms in my fridge, boats in my yard

Strange things are a foot. Rafts in my yard and worms in my fridge, someone has fishing on the brain for sure, looking forward to catching a few trout and frying them up. It will be nice to open my fridge and find no worms, Summer has begun.