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Baby’s Room: Before
Mom & Jean spent a good part of their vacation helping the the baby’s room… Fixing the floors, tearing down the closet wall, and all new paint. It looks great! Before…
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Second Port of Call: Juneau
This morning the ship traveled up the Tracy Arm before heading in to Juneau. We rented a car again, this time bypassing Walmart for the Fred Meyer! Then on to Mendenhall Glacier. The glacier was ok but on the way out of the park, we noticed several people peering into the bushes. We pulled over […]
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First Port of Call: Ketchikan
Since this is our third trip to Ketchican, and we’ve already done the kayaking, zip lining, and photo tours, we decided to go somewhere we hadn’t been yet…. Walmart!! We rented a car and continued on our own self guided tour along the 30 mile road that covers the town. We literally reached the end […]
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All Aboard!
We considered tooling around Seattle and boarding later in the day, but in the end just decided to get settled into our stateroom early. Good thing we did! We knew something went amuck when security ran Brad’s monsterous backpack through xray a second time…and then called another securit guard over as back up. “Do you […]
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Killer Whale Watching
We Went whale watching off the coast of Friday Harbor, Washington. Several pods of killer whales always around the island and easy to find. And the boat with the dog, a whale poop sniffing dog named Tucker! No kidding. He’s trained by researchers to sniff out the whale poop so they can scoop it up […]
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Alaska Bound
We’re on vacation! The last one EVER according to Brad. First stop, Cupcake Royale in Seattle for some gourmet cupcakes and ‘family’ friendly stickers and Tshirts. Next up, Anacortez to board the ferry for Friday Harbor! Brad called our hotel to let them know about our late arrival and ask for dinner recommendations. This was […]
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Oregon Jamboree
This is our first year attending the Oregon Jamboree, a three day country concert in Sweet Home. First up tonight: Jo Dee Messina, then Ronnie Dunn.
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Estacada Lawn Mower Races
You KNOW it’s going to be a good weekend when the lawn mower races are in town. Big night out in Estacada for the Kuhns!
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New garden enhancements
We finally put up out little greenhouse and started an herb garden in the flower bed along side the pump house.
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More Gardening
In between crazy down pours this weekend, we got in a berry patch. Miranda gave us about a dozen raspberry shoots (on the right), marionberry/boysenberry shoots (on the left), and about two dozen stawberry plants (down the middle). Hoping for enough of our own berries to make at least one batch of jam this fall!
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