A woman's work is never done. Rest time consisted of washing clothes, rubbing feet, cutting my sister's hair, rubbing tired feet, repacking clothes, rubbing hurting feet and catching up on sister talk. What fun. Oh, and there was the morning feeding of the deer. This morning the girls and baby buck showed up for fresh veggies. Note the scar on the doe on the right side just under her jaw. Several weeks ago it looked like she was gored by a buck and it was very infected. Kit and Mike nursed and feed her back to health. Her name is Lulu. Spoiled babies. Good thing they live in this huge development where no hunting is allowed or they would be stew.
After the morning of fun and everyone was as rested and full of energy as you can be at our age, we decided that there were just a few things that we needed to see locally today. Oh so many great things to do and see in the area and we didn't want to miss any of them. The Crooked River Golf Course where Mike and Kit play is just beautiful and was the site of an old western movie starring Kirk Douglas called The Way West. This was Sally Fields' first movie. Nice claim to fame and pretty place. We might have to watch it just to see how much the area has changed in the last 30 years or so.
The Rex T. Barber Memorial Bridge over Crooked Creek River was a beautiful place and was named for a fighter pilot in WWII who shot down Mozimoto. He was the guy that planned the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Great history info that I had heard of but had forgotten. Now it is personal for me and I know Mike is very interested because of his fighter pilot background.
We ate lunch at the cutest little place in the nearby community of Culver - Beetle Bailey's. The flowers were absolutely beautiful and surprising at this late time of year. My petunias have been gone for a long time and never were this full and lush. Maybe it is all the volcanic ash that makes everything so green up here. My brown thumb is jealous.
The day was just beautiful, clear and moderately cold. Perfect for a good mountain climb. Someone else's, not ours. When we got to Smith Rock State Park, it was covered with what looked like brightly clothed ants climbing up and down on the mountain walls. Hundreds of them and if you look really hard at the picture of the whole mountain face, you can see the climbers all along the wall on the ground and some up on the top. We were totally amused watching them. The range has a rock shaped like a monkey's face and Snoopy. There was a long fairly difficult hike to see Monkey Face so we decided to just cheer the climbers on and view Snoopy from afar. Monkeys are not way up there on my list of favorite animals anyway.
Right near Kit and Mike's house we walked the trail along the Deschutes River to Steelhead Falls. Steep and many loose rocks and sandy soi!. I learned to use hiking poles and they really do help you not slide or fall into some place you really don't want to be - like over the edge. There was one of the locals down there with his dog and wife. We just couldn't resist taking a pic. Last time Kit and Mike were near the falls he was diving into the base of the falls and said that he had dived it many times for as long and deep as he could and could not find the bottom. The place was beautiful, but not any prettier than the sunset from K&M's front porch. They have a perfect view of Mt. Jefferson right out their front door.
Marmalade's Side of the Story
When I get all grown up, I think I might be a mountain climber. They were having so much fun and yelling back and forth to each other and just hanging around. Nonnie and Aunt Kit were just gasping at how they were climbing straight, smooth rock walls. How hard could that be? Or I could be a river diver and wear a kilt. Either one looked pretty cool. I bet his legs were cold. For now I am just happy to be hanging around looking at rocks.
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What's that pained look for, Nonnie?! :)
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