Have Faith!

God has answered prayer for my cousin Jeff, he starts his new job on Thursday at Dishman Dodge in Spokane.

He has always had the gift of gab and that salesman attitude. Even as a kid he talked me into golfing cow pies on my Grandparents farm. Note, "Do not golf fresh pile, they may backup on you!"

He will be a good sales person and if you need a car, truck or SUV go see him!

Good luck my cousin, god answered your prayer!

Montana Fun!

Izaak Walton Inn in Essux, Montana has the greatest little railroad display. This Inn still has trains zipping by and still has the Amtrak station here.

Here is just one of the Suites that they offer at the Izaak Walton Inn. This is a train lovers dream.

You can take the Red Bus Tours in Glacier National Park, these restored buses are a real work of art. They have been restored with new Ford power trains and run off Propane.

You could say they were packed to the roof, but they didn't have a roof on this sunny day, LOL!

The Lodge at St. Mary's Lake is a cool lodge right on the lake. They offer Red Bus Tours, Boat Tours on the St. Mary's Lake, Horse back Tours and you can just sit and stare at the mountains looking for mountain goats.

The old roads have a few tunnels that whined through the mountain pass.

The view points off the pass of St. Mary's Lake are breathe taking and totally amazing.

Don't forget the white river rafting tours! We found that almost anyone can go rafting!

We found family at Glacier National Park!

 I was given a tree at Boeing for Earth Day in 2005 and planted it in a pot on the deck. He has grown up to be a nice looking little tree, I am sooo proud. Well, we were stopped at a Scenic lookout at Glacier National Park, I looked down and found my tree's little sister, Amazing! You never know who you will meet while you are on vacation!

Glacier National Park

We made it to Glacier National Park and have set up our camp spot. I have been feeling crappy agian, but I think once we settle in I will began to feel better.

Here is our camping spot at "SAN-SUZ-ED RV Park." Very nice and clean. The manager told us that they have had a Bear roaming the grounds. So we put dad's booz in a locked compartment, YEA! I am sure that the Beagles will let us know if there is a Yogy out there!

Love Ya, J.P.!



“The J.P. Patches Show” debuted on KIRO/7 Feb. 10, 1958. When it went off the air in 1981, it was the longest running locally-produced kids show in the United States. Julius Pierpont Patches, played by Chris Wedes, was Mayor of the City Dump. His girlfriend, Gertrude, showed up two years later when floor manager Bob Newman answered Patches’ call off-camera. Seattle PI.com

I just learned that J.P. will retire from doing personal appearances. As a child I would get up and watch his show until it was time to head off to school. This was good, clean, educational, and super entertainment for children.

The world needs more people like him to put on clean TV for children in the morning. I will always be a Patches Pal, I still have my card. I think that someone should request that they start running reruns, maybe you just might see yourself on the show, LOL!

You are the BEST J.P!

Lazy Dazes of Summer!

Bailey and Lucy lounging around while Steve and I watch the Mariners play the Boston Red Sox's.

Lucy the "Pig Lover!"

Bailey sneaking in to "Smell the Sneakers!"

These two hounds have two different ideas on how to relax and chill out!

Flashback Friday, OOOPs it's Saturday!

EVANS WOMEN!

Here you go, here is the Evan side of our family, all the women. Poor Ryan and Dan too little to resist the baby shower and the female cousins.

Evening out with friends!

(Steve on left and Richard Cooke on the right)

We went to "Dixie's" for dinner. My Friend Richard is heading to school in Missouri to become a minister, so we took him to a local dinner for dinner.

Dad was not happy with his Meatloaf sandwich, humm! No one make meatloaf like my mother did and he is never satisfied with anything else. I sat through dinner and listen to him tell his story about his Bullet buying adventure, LOL!

I just love it when Steve tried to take my pitcher, just as the cel phone is gearing up you just stick out the tougn, LOL!

I also installed more graphics on the front of the motor home. I over layed some to make a sprint car kicking up some dirt on track, check out the second photo!

When I get back from the trip I am going to try to wax this beast!

Motor home makeover!

Installing new graphics on the motor home, I bought last year and just now have got some time to do it. The hardest thing is getting the old ones off. Steve found the hair dyer and that helped greatly. I have to come up with a design to cover the peeling graphics that I removed.

I will post more as I go. I will also have before and after shots. Now that school is out for the summer and I have a moth off, maybe I can get this done.

For everyone that prayed for me for the spider bite and school challenges, I thank you!


Monte

I needed the food of Youth!

Well after my finals and feeling like a young frisky buck, I needed some  fuelfood. As I drove though the city of my youth I thought, "Monte you haven't had a Cubby's Burger in years!" So I made a quick turn and pulled in the Drive Thru of Cubby's.

This place is a icon in Auburn. In the 1980's you had young High School girls working the counters, packed on the weekends at night and the best burgers and fries. I thought that this would just help me heal from the spider bite and the bite of finals. So I ordered a "Big Cubby's With Cheese." Let me tell you what, I loved it, Oh Yeah!

P.S. No young girls, just a 63 year old lady!

This is what bit me!

Here is the little bugger that bit me or his body double.

He bit me on the back of the arm, which wasn't that bad as the photo below!

No this is NOT MY BUTT, it's on the back of my very hairy leg.

As the pain got bad then my hand started to swell up and felt like it was on fire and man, did it start to ache.

I am starting to feel better and hope that I can do well in my summer finals at school. This has made me nausea, fever, headache, dizziness and I could not think right. So, what else is new!

I guess my motto is going to be from know on,

 "Stomp on every spider, I mean everyone!"

Flashback Friday!

Oh Sparky, you were a smart little dog! This little dog was a gift from my uncle Jack on my birthday, but he soon became my Dad's buddy. This little dog would sit like this to look out the front door, in the passenger seat of the Beetle and of course for FOOD!

This is my Great Grandmother holding her cat Tony. She loved that cat, he would rule her house. This lady was amazing, she had a photographic memory and had some great theories on UFO's. I was just fascinated by her encounters and beliefs. She would always give me a dime and tell me to by myself something.

BREAKING NEWS!

Well, well those lazy butts in Washington, DC have finally finished a job that should have taken just a few days. Come on, if you dummy's got docked 1% of your pay a day until you reached a plan.Then you guys would have finished in record time, but since you dorks are using our money you took your sweet ass time. I say, fire everyone of you and replace your sorry butts with the unemployed people of America. To quote a famous American, Larry "The Cable Guy," "Geeet-rrrrr-doone!"

I am the HORNET KILLER, LOL!

Ok, I am the man! I sprayed those little BAS***S and showed them who was boss. It started out a little ruff, I did run like a girl, swatting at the air and tripped over the shovel. BUT, they removed their dead and moved out of my sheds steps. I am the man!

Next time you want to buzz me think twice or maybe more little Hornet!

Flashback Friday!

First photo is of Cody and his Grandfather. This month Cody turned 20 and man has he grown. He has become a great young man,

"Happy Birthday, Cody!

The second half of my flashback is of my childhood house in Auburn, Washington. I drove by it the other day and the people have really fixed it up. We had many great time in that neighborhood. This little house was about 900 square feet, it that! Man, it's hard to believe that two adults, four kids, and usually at least two or three animals. What memories that I have and I had so many good friends, it was a great place to grow up in.  

It's hard to say good-bye!

 Seattle and Mariners fans have lost another Mariners Icon. Rick Kaminski, known to Seattle fans as simply "The Peanut Man," passed away Wednesday at the Evergreen Medical Center due to a large brain hemorrhage, said his partner, Candi Mindt-Keener. He was 67 years old.

Rick had a way of delivering the goods to the fan, it was a quick throw behind the back and extremely accurate with his delivery. He worked in the King Dome and at Safeco Field.

"Say Hi to Dave for us Rick!"

"I will miss your great throws."

R.I.P

The Bear and the Bee's

I feel like a bear with a headache, I'm grumpy, and can't do much of anything lately right. I really need a vacation from school. If you are new to this blog I'm a forty nine year old going back to College! I think that I'm stressed out at this point, really, really stressed.

Tonight we will have round two of the flight of the Bee's. Hopefully, No I Will, kill them off! These little buggers are living under the steps of my shed and get PO'ed if I want my lawn mower or weed whacker. "They are going down and I going to send them there!" I tell you. Last night they tried to bombard me after I shot them with Hornet Spray, I have plan B.

To be continued......................................................................

What can Algerba do for U?

If only math was this easy I wouldn't be pulling my hair out, wait I don't have much hair! I feel like an old dog trying to learn new tricks. I am going to either get a sucky grade or fail.

I feel like I could just hide my head in the sand and it might just go away, NOT! I am feeling like I need to just hit the RESET BUTTON~REBOOT!

There is one constant in my life, my Beagles always give me love and greet me with "Happy Tails."

I am feeling a little bummed but I will bounce back!!!!!!!

Where do I dump the Poop?

I spent almost an hour putting together a little book of Dump Stations in the Northwest. Let face it, if you are a RV'er you must have this knowledge of where to dump the waste tanks. It's the most crappiest job in RV life, but one that has to be mastered. It like potty training the owner, LOL! It's also one that you must not make a MISTAKE or you pay dearly.

Staple update!!

The 10 staples were removed today!! Just remember to watch out around the RV Awnings as the bite sometimes.

USS GMS!

This looks like a blast, but the maiden surf was cut short. My friend Gregg took his power board out and the craft started to take on some water. Hopefully he will get it running and enjoy this nice sunny weather in the Northwest. Knowing Gregg he will figure out this small challenge and be flying over the water in no time.

OMG, here is Cake on your Face!

My dads neighbor lady dropped this cake by his house as he was on his way to my house for dinner, LUCKY ME! I fixed Homemade pizza and we cut into this red beauty and let me tell you this red hot Raspberry fluffy delight was GREAT! She laid every berry just right on the top, a thin layer of Custer, and all of this laid on top of a light fluffy yellow cake. OH MY GERMAN-LADY!

Later, Monte 

Dad update!

Well my father turned 79 on July 9th and he made his first trip to Safeco Field last month. Steve took him to a San Diego vs Mariners game. As in usual Buck fashion he was jumping up and down like a school girl, NOT!

He rarely get Getty or even shows much  excitement about anything. I asked him, "Hey dad isn't that a nice ball park?" He responded, "The food was too expensive!" As you can see in this photo he was just so happy! I love you DAD!

STAPLES TO BE REMOVED

For those of you that were with us at Gray's Harbor Raceway last weekend, I have appointment on Monday to have those 10 staples removed. All has gone well. Still disappointed we saw no racing! The weather still is not Summer Like, but at least no RAIN. This coming weekend is suppose to be better. We shall see, it's only WED. Will post again after Monday. Hopefully NO STAPLES. Have a Great Day!!! :)

Gray's Harbor Speedway-Brownsfield Menmorial Race

Well her we go again with a rain out! We had a fun time camping and tailgating with our racing friends and family. The race weekend was canceled and will be rescheduled, but I don't know if we will be able to attend. We were glad to meet new friends from Canada and the U.S. We had a little accident between Steve and the Motor home awning, the awning won. Steve needed ten staples in his melon. He will live and live to go to another race. I was hopping to see some mud fly but I will have to wait to watch my two cousins race at South Sound Speedway, check out the action just south of Olympia, Washington.

 I will post more, I promise. School is taking up allot of my time and starting to get harder. So, please check back!

Monte