Monday, April 6, 2009

Freezing in Happy Camp this morning

We all had warm cozy beds at Helen's in Happy Camp, except for Max, he was tied down. We couldn't sell him, nobody even tried to steal him! We are almost in an accident because of rubberneckers passing us this evening.

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Max knows that California has olive groves.



I 5 is trafficated.

Old friends meeting at Pennie's diner in Dunsmuir! The sign says "only 2 per booth" we managed to squeeze a few more in.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Backberry ranch on the Klamath River


These kids lost a little sister not so many months ago. We had a sweet time with them, talking and singing hymns, found a baby goat (the kid), and a lamb was born this morning. Dad's packing our picnic now. Too bad mom had to take baby in to "the city" to check if it really is chicken pox or she'd picnic with us too. We hope to see them tomorrow morning with all the rest of the field. If it's chicken pox though, this is good bye til we meet up at Mountain Ranch.

Here is the kid hiding.





This old billy goat made me think about the Hunchback of Notre Dame, his head is deformed, and his eyes were a bit wild, but he was very polite. The kids say he stinks though!

















on the way north






I'll write more later....

Friday, April 3, 2009

in response to the comments on the crawdad post...

here is one of the delicious meals my mother fixed us last week.
We like shrimp and crawdads and lobsters on the shell, and we like to peel em out ourselves.  Thank you very much.

my dad is very good at making salads too.

  nothing left but the empty carcasses...

Freedom

Freedom to jump in the car and take off across country!
Freedom to take your Max Headroom strapped to the roof of your car if you want.
America's a great place to be on a home visit!

This is Blake and Max and me as we start out on our epic journey to the north...How far will Max make it on our journey?
And here is sneaky old Louie, trying to get a free ride to the state of Jefferson...

 
The sculpture is one Blake did for art class, is a self portrait of a budding architect, or a man with a house on his mind.
We made it to Oroville this evening, saw Laura here, a nice surprise, sorry we didn't get pictures or her with Max!