In Jessie's Words!!

On other day in Hot Ville, WOW it has been hot so far the hottest day has been 104. Several other days 100 to 102, and for the PNW that is hot. My little home doesn't have AC so when I get home the poor dog  and cat are just laying around and the house is so hot. I leave every thing closed up but there is just no air movement.  Sleeping at night is impossible, whats nice about the weekend I can get up early 5:30am and open all the windows and put fans in them and cool the house off some before I have to close it up but during the week I can’t do that so it never cools off. We had one hell of a lighting/thunder storm about 1am and they same we will have more today, Will rain also but still get to 90 that will be sticky. I lived for a while on the east coast (Dover Delaware)and remember how humid it would get in the evening and I think that is how this whole day is going to go.  (Someday I will do a blog of what it is like living and working at Dover Airforce Base during Vietnam, DAFB was where the remains of our men and women from the war came to that were from east of the Mississippi, Travis AFB in Calif was for west of the Mississippi.)

It’s been nice working at the new office and job since I got my transfer. Instead of an hour going in it’s about 20min and coming home instead of over an hour still about 20min. Except Friday and this last Friday was over an hour getting home every one was headed to the coast or Mt Hood to get out of the heat setting on I5 in bumper to bumper traffic not moving it got to 112. I had the top up on the car as I knew it was going to be a hot drive home and that is just to hot to have the top down. I cut off I5 about 12 miles from home and take the back road that pass the farms who are watering there crops and it dropped to 106 and the air felt so much cooler and I love the smell of the fields when getting watered. Where I live has a lot of sod farms, corn, grapes, tree/shrubs farms so it is a nice drive the last 12 miles.  Woodburn is known for it’s Tulips farms also. A very nice place to live.

Links to stuff in Woodburn.

http://www.woodburndragstrip.com/

http://www.traveloregon.com/Explore-Oregon/Willamette-Valley/Upcoming-Events/Flowers-and-Gardens/Wooden-Shoe-Tulip-Festival.aspx

http://www.woodenshoe.com/

http://seniorestatesgolf.com/Senior_Estates_Golf_/Home.html

The kids got home from there vacation and had a great time but were ready I think to be home. Their kitty’s are sure glad they are home. They have 3 cats and a friend came and feed them and gave the some attrition but nothing as good as your owners can give.

I am still waiting for her to post photos of the trip so I can see what all they did. School starts soon so summer here is almost over. It sure went fast this year.

Will I need to try to wake up and do something, a few hours of sleep is just not enough. J I gave up on beauty sleep years ago now I try to get “Get up and move the next day sleep” lolol

 Have a wonderful week.

Peace

Jess

Ok for those who know me in real life not on just the internet.. I had to put the Save a horse ride a cowboy video on.. There not a lot of things I enjoy looking at as much as a cowboy in tight 501's, no shirt or a t-shirt tucked in, cowboy hat, a little sweat and that beautiful smile that melts the harden hearts. So lady's enjoy!! sorry guys next time..:) 

August, Wait did I just say August ?? Holly Crap yes “Crap”.  It seems I was just writing about my 60^th birthday BBQ my daughter gave me at her home in Aloha Oregon and it’s my day again.. Where did this last year go?????. In two weeks I will be 60 + 1   humm backwards 16, no thank you I can remember 16 and it was a lot easier being 16 back then than it is now...My biggest concern was how I was getting to the beach to surf (Long Beach, Huntington or Tin Can beach also known as Muscle beach or Venus beach) or to cruse the A&W Drive In.  This year I am having dinner at my home for family and a few friends.  A nice Italian dinner, now you say OH she must be Italian…nope Scott, Irish and Mule but no better cook than an Irish Grandmother who has the Scott wisdom and always right..:) lolol I am only kidding (although the kids might agree).

I am still doing stuff to the house and got my new living room set, I never knew how hard it would be to giv e away a very nice couch, coffee table and chair till I tried with my old one. Someone said to put a price on it set it in the front yard and it will be stolen within an hour or less. I was almost thinking that. J.  But a nice older couple walking by saw it in the garage with a free sign and came back with their truck and took it all, yahoo.. I can park in my garage again..yes yes I am one of those people who garage is clean, has room to park my car and walk around it..lololol… Had a neighbor tell me once that wasn’t American, no one in the US can park in the garage..

The kids have gone camping for 9 days and it been a week now and I am starting to miss them. I don’t see Dorie (see link to her blog above) and the pack every day but talk on the phone every couple days and I have missed that. I am sure they are having a great time in Yellowstone.  This is there 3ed camping trip this summer and the last one. My son in-law has 8 weeks off (one of the perks of working for Intel) so they have been to the Oregon coast twice and now Yellowstone. Getting the camper and boat was a good investment for them as they still do stuff as a family.

Jesse will be a Jr this year in high school but due to his grades he has been accepted into collage this year so he will be going to Rock Creek which is part of PCC. He wanted to take law but they don’t have it at this campus and he has to spend his first year there so next year he can go where he wants and then he can take his law classes.  Levis will be able to do this program next year and his grades should allow it. You can not do better than getting your first two years of collage paid for by the school district and when you graduate from high school   you have two years of collage behind you and paid for.

My friend hung a porch swing for me and I just love it, I can remember as a child you could always find me in the tire swing dad hung from a tree or at grandpas on his front porch swing... lol I guess I have never out grew the comfort that motion gives me.  Dragging my toes and wondering how mom could tell... gee if had looked at the toes of my shoes I would of known how she knew. Remember those days of just relaxing in a swing or laying in the grass making things out of the clouds or at night chasing the lighting bugs and putting them in a jar. Was life really that simple or were we just so young we didn’t see reality.  I was the youngest of 3 my whole time was spent finding way to get my older brother in trouble and his was teasing me or tricking me into stuff that always ended up with me tears and he also spent a lot of time trying to get out of trouble cause you can bet the baby blue eyes I had filled with tears and that bottom lip that stuck out went right straight to Dad. My sister who was in the middle just stay neutral and out of the way..lolol

 

I hope all of you are having a safe and wonderful summer.. I will try to get back to updating this every Sunday. I have made some good changes in my life so have more free time and not so stressed. I was driving 66 miles round trip to work each day and getting to work wasn’t so bad but  getting home was taking sometime 1 ¼  hours and sometime more due to I5 traffic. I got a transfer I have wanted and so I move to a different office and my drive has been cut by more than half. So time and gas wise I am way ahead.  Instead of driving to N Portland I drive to the far west side of Lake Oswego which is just off I5. I can’t believe I leave work an hour later and get home only 15 to 20 min later. And the parking is free!! Nice so very Nice.

 

Peace V

Jess

 

 

Well this is the second time I have started this, for some reason it just left like I hit delete. 

 

It has been to long since I have updated this. So let start with my grandsons. As most of you know I have two great grandsons who I am very proud of and the direction they have gone, it is hard to believe it has been a year since they were at boot camp for Washington County Oregon Explorer program. This year they go back but now as leaders. Both have been very active with the program. Doing search’s working different local stuff going on. It is hard to believe they are 15 (in a couple weeks) and 16. Hear is link it will take you to my daughter’s blog and at the bottom is a movie of the camp. There is two recording so when the first one is done wait a moment and the next one will start.

I have been working on my home a lot again. Have worked a lot in the yard, pulling up carpet myself a bit more work than I thought it would be, but this home has really nice hardwood floors and I want to go back to them. I have also move bedrooms around and found out after moving two box springs and mattress by myself that the easy way to do that. “”LET SOMEONE ELSE DO IT””!!. I painted master bedroom, hallway and living room. Put down new base board and this weekend got my new range and over head microwave.

The weather has been nuts, one day 45 next 99. Friday I thought I was 8 years old again and back in Kansas City, it has been years since I was in such a loud, long thunder storm. And I swear the lighting ran along the street it was so low.  

I took today off to get a few things done I worked in the front and back yard 6 house Sat so today I am going to do some feed and weed.

Hope you all have a wonderful long weekend, and please don’t forget our young men and women in war zones.

 

Peace