July 29, 2011

Today John, Wes, and I rode the trail along the Spokane River. It is a beautiful trail. Saw 7 new Washington birds. No life birds yet this trip.

Wes' daughter, Janine, her husband, Ty, and sons, Darwin and Chad are here also. We are having a great visit.

July 27, 2011

Today we drove over an hour east to ride the Trail of the Hiawatha. It is a Rails-to-Trails. There were several tunnels. We needed lights, and most of them were wet. The longest one was 1.7 miles, and we had to ride it both going and coming. The total ride was about 17 miles long. We were shuttled back from the end of the trail by old school buses. Most of the trail was fairly rough, and most people rode mountain bikes.

Dinner back in Coeur d'Alene at the Moon Time restaurant.

Pictures will follow tomorrow.

July 26, 2011

Today work continued on the sink. After finding a leak and fixing it, the sink is done. Now we can do the dishes for the first time since Sunday night. Whoopie!

Wes, John and I rode on the Centennial Bike Trail today. They went the whole 12 miles. We rode it east through town. The trail also goes west into Washington toward Spokane. I wimped out after about 3 and waited for them to return. Then rode back to where we started.

July 25, 2011

Today John and Wes spent the entire day trying to install a new sink in the kitchen. It is 7:45 p.m., and they are still at it. I was cooking and baking without benefit of the sink and water, but it worked. Baked chocolate chip cookies, made meatloaf and summer squash, roma tomato and asiago cheese casserole. Theresa was at work.

No pictures today.

July 24, 2011

Salmon, 1st fish was a male, second a female with lots of roe, Mission Inn, Trail of the Coeur d'Alene's, Wes, Theresa, and Meatloaf.

July 24, 2011

Today we rode the Trail of the Coeur d'Alene's. It is an old railroad bed along the Coeur d'Alene River and goes through land owned by the Coeur d'Alene tribe. We rode down to Rose Lake and back from the Mission Trailhead a total of 17 miles. Ate at the Mission Inn. Had a delicious huckleberry milkshake. Just down the road is Cataldo Mission State Park. The Cataldo Mission is really Mission of the Sacred Heart built by Catholic Missionaries and the C d'A tribe between 1850 and 1853.

Clayton, a young man of the Nez Perce tribe, brought Chinook Salmon up and sold them to Wes and Theresa.

Pictures: Wes, Theresa and Wes' cat, Meatloaf, Bike trail, Mission Inn, and Salmon.

July 23, 2011

Today we went to hear Jim Hightower from Texas. He spoke with a great deal of humor about the politics going on in the U.S. today. He puts out a monthly newsletter, does a 2 minute radio commentary on the radio every day about politics, and has a syndicated column in several weekly newspapers. A nice wine luncheon was put on by the Kootenai County Democratic Club. John bought one of his books.

Theresa and I drove into town and tried to find the scrapbook store, which had moved. We didn't find it, and we think it is out of business. Bummer!

No pictures today.