Summer Fun - Part 1

 Oh my gosh it's been a month now since my last post.  I'm still alive although no one has inquired as to that so I'm not sure anyone missed me.

Anyhow...The summer has been a "busy" one for sure.  Much of it was spent working on the house.  Mike has done the majority of the work but I've helped out a little here and there.  

Spent a Saturday morning pulling staples from these stairs.  Each one had between 20-25 staples that had to be pulled.  It's a big stair case so there were a lot of staples.  More on the house remodel at another time.

Today's post is about fun (pulling staples is NOT fun.)

So we took a little trip out of town on Friday the 16th of August.

We headed to Spokane, WA.  Today is just a hint of what we did.

Took this on the way up.  These are a common sight in this area.  They are extremely HUGE up close.  I just liked this shot of the fields, clouds and the wind turbines.

We got to Spokane and met a friend of mine who lives there for lunch at Casa de Oro on Division street for a lovely lunch.  Sadly I didn't think to get pictures of our food or my friend.  After lunch Mike & I headed to our main destination.  

After finding a place to park at a parking garage in a mall area we headed out and about.  Took this next shot inside of a Giant Red shoe.  I took Mike's photo on my phone and he took mine on his.

After we exited the shopping mall I snapped a few photos of things that I thought were interesting.

Mural on the side of an underpass.

Metal sculpture of runners on the way to River Front Park (click to enlarge.) I had hoped to get more pictures but Mike was wanting to get over to the park and wasn't slowing down long enough for me to shoot more.

The fountain at the park.  Lots of people kept running inside to get soaked.  Didn't get any shots of that though.

Big Red Wagon.

  

We found a spot where he could rest while I wandered around and took a few pictures.  I liked this metal fish sculpture.

I didn't walk close enough to find out what these were but I liked them anyway.

Picture of part of the falls.

Power plant

Metal Goat Sculpture. - I thought this was the one called, Garbage Goat but after reviewing another website it's not.  Apparently there is one that looks like this:

(Not my photo) somewhere in the park.  You can read about it here:

There is a section of the bridge area over the falls where you can purchase a lock tag and have it attached to the fence.  Sounds like a fun idea but at a $100 a lock it was a (no-go) for us.

More of the falls and an interesting building in the background.

The Pavilion in the park.

I wish I had wandered around longer to get a bunch more photos as I know I missed a lot of things in the park but I didn't want to leave hubby sitting all by himself for a long time.  He has a hard time walking around for long periods so that's why he didn't go with me.

We spent from 2:00 till 5:00 just hanging out in the park.  Why you ask....

See that part that says,  John Fogerty + George Thorogood & the Destroyers?  (I didn't get the date in, rats)  Yep,  we had tickets to that concert!!!

More on another post

Willy-Nilly Friday and Feline Friday - June 15, 2018

Welcome everyone.  Thank You to everyone who left comments on my (MIA) post from earlier this week.

Life has been so busy the last few months, some good, some not so good but all is well.

It's time for a little Friday Fun so let's join the party.

Tom (The Backroads Traveller) is hosting WILLY-NILLY FRIDAY FIVE

 

May flew by so quickly...lots of things going on.

 

 

1.

The annual Ducky Derby was held on May 19th and as usual I purchased my 5 ducks in hopes that one of them would make it to the finish line and I would win a prize.  Alas, once again I did not win.  - Oh well, it's all for a good cause.

 

2.  Hubby celebrated a birthday the next day (May 20) so there was birthday stuff to take care of.  Here he is blowing out those birthday candles.

 



 3. He took a 5 day trip back to ND to watch his oldest granddaughter graduate from high school.  While he was gone I went to the Wildhorse Casino again.  Took my mom along.  We didn't win but we didn't lose all our money either. - Better than that though was that a local store had a promotion that if you bought a $5 and higher Scratch ticket and it was a losing ticket you could put it in a box and have a chance at the end of the month to win free lottery tickets.  Guess what.........

I won!  There were 3 winners drawn.  I won 2nd Prize - A packet of 50, $10 tickets. - We all had fun scratching them off and I ended up winning, $330.00 off the tickets.  I probably had put in about $50 worth of losing tickets but I gained that back plus extra and it was just a lot of fun finding out that I had won and the excitement of seeing if any of the tickets were winners was great.

 

4. Usually you see people walking their dogs but have you ever seen someone walking their.....

 

 



Pet Goats!

 

5.  I wait all year for the local strawberry season to start and so for the last couple of weeks we have been enjoying these lucious berries.

 



 In other news...I finally joined the ranks of Smart Phone owners.  Boy has that been a "learning curse I mean curve" for me!  I've accidentally taken "selfies", dialed my granddaughter while she was in school, called my daughter and didn't say anything because I didn't realized I had called her, hung up on an important call because I pressed a wrong button and the list goes on.

Finally for FELINE FRIDAY

Harley wasn't feeling well yesterday and he spent most of the day sleeping, I caught this unusual pose of him while he was sleeping. 

 

Fond this video while searching for songs about Cellphones and just had to share it. - Hoping I don't become like this.