YREKA TO GOLD CANYON

We started out bright and early Friday morning

Took a few photos of the main street of Yreka

before heading down Highway 5

As we left the gas station this little gal came clicking and clomping and prancing up the street

Strings Italian Cafe

This is where we had dinner the night before

It was originally a bakery

The waitress told us

spirits live in the basement

Just check out this old building

There is a real life barber shop

with a barber pole out front

This is John the barber

I'm going to use the word original again

This is the original barber shop from the 1800 era

John told me the 'History channel' had been to the barber shop

You can just see the 'eye' of this cow

We parked beside the trailer at a rest stop

When the fellow came out I asked if the cows were coming or going???

He said going

Oh.....I said

I didn't want to hear that

One cow was going to market

One cow was going to auction

and

One cow was going to pasture to spend time with the girls!

Once again we drove by this California windmill

Joe said I had to take a photo for Casey

SO

There you go Casey

As we passed this truck we could smell 

the fresh hay

Stephanie and Rod went out to the house on Friday morning

and opened it up for us

What a treat!!!!!!!!!!!

It was wonderful to come into the house and have everything ready for us

It was very inviting

THANK YOU

The American Bull dog and the British Bull dog

and

The French Bull dog

The O'Rourke dog was reunited with the Browning dogs!!!!

It amazes me as to how fast they became

friends again

A beautiful day in the neighbourhood

Superstition Mountain in the background

The Siamese have settled right in

Here we have three couples from

Chatham Ontario

checking out Native jewelry

Jack and Janette

Mike and Penny

David and Caroline

You all know Janette from

best friends weekend

They came down to Arizona for a little holiday

Yesterday we all got to spend the day together

We had a great time

First stop

Tortilla Flats for lunch

A quick stop along the way for a photo opt

Janette with her mason jar of wine

CHEERS

Jack and Janette almost in the saddle

Check out the ladies washroom

Caroline

Penny

Jack

Jack Mike and David

ready with walking sticks

Joe took the fellows on a sunset walk in the desert

behind our house

We ended the evening by going to dinner

at the Mining Camp

What a day!!!!!!!!!



California

Just to let family and friends know we are in California

A good drive today

Zipped through the border

No rain

We had a delightful dinner at an Italian place this evening called

Strings Italian Cafe

Had a great talk with one of the waitresses

The town was established in the 1800s

Was a logging town

The cafe is in the former bakery

She told us there are spirits living in the basement!

We are planning on rising at 6 a.m.
Will have breakfast then will
 take a drive down main street to take some photos
especially the cafe

We should arrive in Arizona mid day on Friday

Breakfast at the Southside Diner

Interesting how the  mind works

When I typed the word 'werever' last night in my blog

I knew it did not look right

I typed in werever

I typed in were ever

then did spell check

Both words came up ok????

In the middle of the night it came to me

I forgot the 'h'

OMG

Last night we could hear a kerfuffle behind us

Might of guessed who or what it was

Bing heads for heights no matter where he is

When we first got up this morning

the sun was shining

then the clouds rolled in

A view from Jen's condo

I tried to do a photo shoot of Stella

however

she did not cooperate as

she kept squinting her eyes

 ha

Stella has 'Hemmingway cat feet'

She has an extra 'toe' on each of her front paws

Here's Nikki

the O'Rourke October Nanny

She is back at her job at the

Southside Diner in Whistler

Joe's breakfast looks pretty tasty

Take note of the coffee mug!

Here's Les.................Graham's friend

Les bought us breakfast this morning

He is one of the owners of the Diner

THANKS LES

By the way........Les you look pretty good

for having been on the

Cast and Blast

 the past few days

Check out the placemat

Lots of red!

We left the Diner and went in search of Ted and Marla's property which they recently purchased

We ended up at the end of a no exit  street

You should have seen the house behond these gates

Check out the 'spider' gate and playful statue of children

(Ted is Graham's childhood friend from when they were three year olds living in Corunna)

The land is being cleared

The construction of their new home will begin in the spring

Here we are in a tourist pose!!

You could fire a canon up the road at Whistler Village this morning

Wow

$10.00 a bunch for lavender

I could have  made some money this summer with

all the lavender plants I have at the cottage!!!

It looks like Christmas is just around the corner

Wreaths are going up

On our way back to Squamish we drove

 through Brackendale

to see if we could see some eagles

There was one bird

I WAS GIVEN A GIFT

The eagle flew out of the tree

soared  through the air

flew right in front of us before landing by the side of the river

As the camera lady I was so excited

I

clicked

 clicked

 clicked

I had the long lens on the camera

however

the setting was set at landscape

Should have had it on sport

and to make matters worse

the 'button' that holds the lens in place from manual to auto was off a bit

THUS

the photos were out of focus

There are a few photos that I could salvage 

Joe being Joe told me to

build a bridge and get over it

so

I did!!!!!!!!!!

HA-HA

All of a sudden lots of birds were flying around

The eagle found a fish which occupied his time

Each year between November and January eagles migrate to feed on salmon

Last season they had 950 eagles in the area

Late  this afternoon we headed back to Jen's condo

Joe read his book

I treated myself to a pedicure

and

Jen went to the gym

We'll be up before the birds tomorrow morning as we start on our next adventure

Hoping to be in Oregon tomorrow night

We've had a busy two days here in Squamish

We've had three dogs and three cats here in the condo plus three adults

The animals have done well

Each has found their little space

We'll be back here again in the spring

OUR LAST FEW DAYS IN PENTICTON

Whoa

Mr. Blue Eyes

The RV is ready for the

Cast and Blast

Graham's friend Les has arrived

Hugs for the boys!

Meet Gary

He and his two brothers have been working out in the vineyard

bringing in the nets

We were agast when we looked out the window and saw that

Gary was working out in the cold

shirtless!!

The moon is coming up Friday evening

We will be leaving this beautiful view soon

Saturday morning

Ethan working on building a house on the computer

Garen saying............

Don't take my picture Granny!!

Jumping up to Auntie Jen's hand

We all went down to the shack to check out

Jen's new cat

Stella

Love the hat!!!!!!!!

Wherever Garen goes

Gwennie goes

Saturday night Midget hockey game in Kelowna

The boy was playing with the Penticton team

Two boys out on a suspension

One boy out due to an injury

Total number of players

10

There were 5 players on the bench

then they were down to 4 with another player suffering an injury

Needless to say...............

the boys sure got lots of ice time!!!!!!

The day had come............

SUNDAY MORNING NANA ARRIVED

GRANNY PAPA AND AUNTIE JEN

LEFT FOR SQUAMISH

IT IS ALWAYS HARD TO SAY

GOOD BYE

WE WILL BE BACK IN APRIL

Monday morning

The view looking out Jen's balcony door

Dad was busy today

Jen now has coat hooks

hat hooks

dog sweater hooks

all at the front door

Here is her collection of pugs

which sit in cousin Margaret's trunk

Do you see Jennifer's baby shoes??

Her first pair of 'walking' shoes

bought at

TOT'S AND TEEN'S BOOTERY

When I was a teen I worked weekends at the store

in Chatham

A peek at some pictures on her fridge

There's a pic of

 Jen as a child with our 'Beetle' in the background

a pic of Beau, Zoe, Ethan and Garen

a pic of our pug Marnie.....46 years ago

a pic of me just about ready to give birth to Stephanie with Jennifer and Marnie beside me

a pic of Stephanie's French bull dog Madeline

LOTS OF FUN PICTURES

Tomorrow we are off to Whistler

for breakfast at Les' cafe

and

high tea at the Farimont Hotel