Sunday, October 4, 2009

New Travel Trailer for camping fun






When we bought the travel trailer we knew our Dodge van would not be able to pull it so we had to look for a used pick-up. We found this 2003 Chev pick-up and it is in very very good condition so we now have a pick-up to pull the trailer. Lynn's retirement date has just been extended out of few more months!


We purchased a AeroLite 2001, 21' during the month of September 2009

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Workman Family Reunion August 15, 2009

Aunt Lorriane is on the left side, white hair, blue coat, with most of her family. Her husband passed away this past year.


Saturday was a overcast day but warm, no rain. The brave one's had great fun on the water slide, swimming pool, swings, cable run, merry-go-round. Friday night we had a nice dinner and camp fire conversations. We wished we could have stayed the night but didn't plan ahead. Just had a late,long drive home that night.

This years Workman Reunion in Molalla, Oregon, at Aunt Lorriane's home. You could stay over Friday night but none of this did. We did go for visiting and dinner Friday night and traveled from to sleep. We traveled back late Saturday morning and left the reunion around 4 PM. We had the Ward corn feed at 5:30PM that night at the Turner, Oregon Park.

Crater Lake 4






This was the hike we took - Annie Creek Canyon 1.7 mile loop. It took about 1.5 hours. We had a wonderful time.

Crater Lake 3






One of the high lites of the rim drive around the crater is reviewing the Pinnacles. The Pinnacles are located at the end of a 7 mile spur road. A colorful collection of 100 foot tall spires are being eroded from the canyon wall. The spires are "fossil fumaroles," each marking a spot where volcanic gas rose up through hot ash deposits, cementing the ash into solid rock. We walked about a 1/4 mile along this narrow canyon, the tail ending at a sign marking the East side of Crater Lake National Park.

Creater Lake 2






We arrived at Crater Lake around 8a.m. and spent the whole day driving (site seeing, hiking) around the crater. The crater is around 31 miles around. We ended back at our starting point around 5 P.M..

Crater Lake and Diamond Lake

We spent two nights at this camp site at Diamond Lake, which is about 8 hours from Crater Lake.The first night we about froze to death but the second night was better for us.Our camp, on the East side of Diamond Lake overlooked the lake.

While at Diamond Lake we drove around the lake. When Lynn was in his early teens he camped there with the Stake. The camp site was on a small stream which fed into Diamond Lake's South side. Each ward in the stake had their own tent or two along the stream. The hole South side of the lake has been turned back to wilderness land but Lynn found what he thought was the camp site area. On thing I remember doing was having contests to see how long we could keep our hands or feet in the stream water. The water was ice cold, so I had to see if the water was still ice cold and it was!

Shirley at Crater Lake at about 8 Saturday morning.
Shirley and I decided to take a weekend trip to Crater Lake on August 31 - Sept 1, 2, 2009. We traveled lite with a tent, a little food, two sleeping bags. I took over 280 pictures. We took one hike call the Annie Creek Canyon. Length was 1.7 mile loop, elevation was 5,800 to 6,000 feet. The trail started at 6,000 elevation and dropped down to 5,800 elevation, walked along a small stream in a wonderful canyon. Near the end of the canyon Shirley spotted a mother deer with 2 young ones. They were within 20 yards of this, just on the other side of the small stream.

New deck

This project became much bigger then I thought it would. I completed the new half (East side) in less then three weeks.