Tule Lake, Butte Valley Fair

Well, we had a pretty good day: Nana (my mom) spent the night last night. We had dinner with Monte and Debbie (Papa Murphy's). Then this morning, we got ourselves going at 8:45 and headed to the Klamath Grill. After a delicious (though not spectacularly nutritious) breakfast, we headed to the Y soccer fields. We had pictures today and I am happy to say that our team was very organized and it took no time at all to get our pictures taken.

The flip side, is that if you get in and get out with pictures, then you have 45 minutes until your game starts. The kids did well entertaining themselves kicking goals in the big goal posts. We worried a little about them wearing themselves out before the game even started, but they were fine.

The game went well. We don't really keep score, but...out team won. We have a pretty old team (mostly four year olds, and one who will turn five in three weeks. Let me tell you, there is a huge difference between three and four year olds when it comes to soccer. Let's say that we feel fortunate to be on the winning side, but expect that any day, we will be crushed.

After soccer, we high-tailed it home to get Zia to bed (her usual nap time is around 11:45)

She slept for about an hour, which is about an hour less than she usually sleeps. So, we got Zoe up from her lie-down, loaded up after some snacks, and headed to the Tule Lake Fair.

We had a great time at the fair. Zoe was nothing but great, never negative in the least. Zia loved everything: at first she was hesitant about the animals, but after a bit, wanted nothing more than to go from goat to goat to sheep to pig and pet them all. Both of them were very cute.

There was a great kids section at the fair this year: kids could pump water, dig for potatoes, make butter, milk a model cow, play in corn-sand and generally have a good time being kids and learning about agriculture. We really liked that part, but then we are nerds who like to learn stuff.

After looking at all the animals and most of the exhibits, we drove back toward Klamath Falls, on the way stopping at the Polar Bear in Merril to have an ice cream cone. We sat at a picnic table under the enormous American flag and had a great time eating, vanilla, chocolate and swirl ice cream cones. We stopped by Grocery Outlet to pick up some dinner (and many other assorted goodies) then, well fed, put the girls down for their long winter (late summer) nap.

All in all, a very good day.

Pictures to follow.

In Medford

Hello all,

We are in Medford enjoying a couple (three) days with my mom. The girls are wild and Zoe, with Zia's help, spilled tomatoes all over the carpet. We are watching "A League of Their Own" and drinking some Henry's.

I know that this a pretty lame post, but better this than nothing(?)

Love to all,

Jeff, Amy, Zoe and Zia

Bird Walk

Zoe, Zia and I went for a walk down at the Lake Euwana Wing Watcher's
Trail. We saw:

Mallards
Feral geese with goslings
Canada geese with goslings
Ring-billed gull
Canvasbacks
Forester's tern
Yellow-headed blackbird
Red-winged blackbird
Brown-headed cowbird
Marsh wren
White pelicans
House sparrow
Double-crested cormorant
Bald eagle
Gadwall
Black-crowned night heron
Egret (snowy, I am pretty sure, but it was flying away from us)
Tree swallow
Cliff swallow
Coot
(Heard) Virginia Rail

Western pond turtle (I am pretty sure)

Yellow-bellied marmot

Go to the Macauly Library to hear them all

Any Other Weekday

Trycycling

Take that, Jeff Hawkins! I have posted way more than once.

Kennedy and Zoe

Comics are fun.

Here's a Quick Comic

Having not posted for so long, I thought that I would post a comic page with pictures from long ago.