I'm on a plan this week: spend as much time on bare ground as possible. Yesterday, after finishing up my freelance work at the computer, I decided to do some on-site freelance work, dealing with my Sandpoint Magazine story about pontooning in Pend Oreille country. Took my camera and my puppy dog Kea, sneaked to the car so Kiwi and Annie wouldn't know, and took off for Hope and its marinas.
One thing I should have done was to put on my glasses after taking photos. I didn't realize this until this morning that the camera was on the wrong setting and that most photos were washed out. So, my apologies to JT and Hannah, whom I met in their Kramer Marina neighborhood yesterday and snapped some photos of them aboard the Groc-n-Roll houseboat which Hannah is housboat sitting for her boyfriend while he's in New Zealand.
Hannah and JT, I guess I'll have to mosey on out there again and pay closer attention before I snap the next photos of you. In the meantime, thanks for a fun visit. Seems JT has been living on his houseboat for six years now---year round. I'm not telling much more cuz you'll have to read it in the Sandpoint Magazine story.
I definitely combined work with pleasure, leading Kea along the docks, where obviously other dogs must inhabit as she was leading me whenever that nose detected an important smell. I met Ron Behimer, who was putting the polish on the interior of his son-in-law's houseboat. I also talked to Jack, the manager at Holiday Shores, along with Megan, one of the cooks and Kathy, the assistant manager---all fun people. I've always noticed on my visits there that the staff is just as friendly as those chocolate milkshakes are delicious.
After doing some pontoon research, I drove on over to Sam Owen campground and noticed the major construction along its east side near Beyond Hope Resort. Someone's putting some bucks and bricks into that project.
And, I found bare ground, JoAnne, so take those little doggies of yours over that way. You can drive into the campground and pull up over those little snow berms to park in the driveways pretty easily now. Once down the stretch of forested hillside, you're in for a breath-taking sight, as it always is, looking down the main channel of Pend Oreille Lake and enjoying the majesty of the magnificent Green Monarchs.
The beach is bare of snow and people, so visitors usually have the place all to themselves this time of the year. It was a great afternoon outing, but reminders of the loitering snow greeted me as I left the campground and looked up toward the mountains. Returning to the Selle Valley and driving through its crusty, dirty roadside snowbanks, I felt like I'd just returned from a foreign land.
Nonetheless, I was pretty satisfied because I'd gotten a good taste of spring just 20 miles away. Kea had a good time too!
Disclaimer: There were more photos, but the cybergods ate 'em, and I'm not gonna sit there and post 'em all over again. So, enjoy the snow and visualize about what bare ground looks like.
One thing I should have done was to put on my glasses after taking photos. I didn't realize this until this morning that the camera was on the wrong setting and that most photos were washed out. So, my apologies to JT and Hannah, whom I met in their Kramer Marina neighborhood yesterday and snapped some photos of them aboard the Groc-n-Roll houseboat which Hannah is housboat sitting for her boyfriend while he's in New Zealand.
Hannah and JT, I guess I'll have to mosey on out there again and pay closer attention before I snap the next photos of you. In the meantime, thanks for a fun visit. Seems JT has been living on his houseboat for six years now---year round. I'm not telling much more cuz you'll have to read it in the Sandpoint Magazine story.
I definitely combined work with pleasure, leading Kea along the docks, where obviously other dogs must inhabit as she was leading me whenever that nose detected an important smell. I met Ron Behimer, who was putting the polish on the interior of his son-in-law's houseboat. I also talked to Jack, the manager at Holiday Shores, along with Megan, one of the cooks and Kathy, the assistant manager---all fun people. I've always noticed on my visits there that the staff is just as friendly as those chocolate milkshakes are delicious.
After doing some pontoon research, I drove on over to Sam Owen campground and noticed the major construction along its east side near Beyond Hope Resort. Someone's putting some bucks and bricks into that project.
And, I found bare ground, JoAnne, so take those little doggies of yours over that way. You can drive into the campground and pull up over those little snow berms to park in the driveways pretty easily now. Once down the stretch of forested hillside, you're in for a breath-taking sight, as it always is, looking down the main channel of Pend Oreille Lake and enjoying the majesty of the magnificent Green Monarchs.
The beach is bare of snow and people, so visitors usually have the place all to themselves this time of the year. It was a great afternoon outing, but reminders of the loitering snow greeted me as I left the campground and looked up toward the mountains. Returning to the Selle Valley and driving through its crusty, dirty roadside snowbanks, I felt like I'd just returned from a foreign land.
Nonetheless, I was pretty satisfied because I'd gotten a good taste of spring just 20 miles away. Kea had a good time too!
Disclaimer: There were more photos, but the cybergods ate 'em, and I'm not gonna sit there and post 'em all over again. So, enjoy the snow and visualize about what bare ground looks like.
1 comment:
Thanks for the tip! Is the beach easily accessible? I have two convalescing dogs that need flat, unpaved ground to walk on. That's why that dirt road looked so inviting. It would let them get a good workout for both legs and nose without stressing their poor backs! And the two well ones would have a great time, too!
Thanks again for the good info!
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