July 2 through July 5, 2009

Thursday 2~~~~ Kent left for the beach house this morning to spend the 4th of July weekend with his girls and their families. I stayed home and we made freezer strawberry jam at Thresa's house. Billy and his daughter Breanna were there also, we made 6 batches of delicious freezer jam. Friday 3rd~~~~Today I drove half way to Eugene to pick up my grand daughter Pamela to spend a few days at our house and some time at the homes of her cousins. We had lunch together at the truck stop where we met and then we headed home to Salem. Saturday 4th of July~~~~~ Kent called early this morning and he was busy taking chairs down to our favorite spot for the big "Rockaway Beach" 4th of July Parade. They have a big day planned at the beach and Tress her kids and I are going to the "Civil War Reenactment" that they do every year, it gets larger with more soldiers in real uniforms and bigger battles every year. We packed a nice picnic lunch with lots of cold water and juices as the weather is very warm this time of year. My son Bill usually goes with us to the battle, but it was just to hot today for him, so he stayed home with his kids and Pamela. Kallie, Pamela and I went over to Tress and Cory's house for fireworks that evening. We had a lot of illegal fire works from Washington that were really big and pretty, at the beach Kent and his gang had the usual illegal ones also, they shoot them off into the ocean so there is no danger of getting hurt, just caught!!!! The cops are on full duty at the beach, as there are so many illegal fire works at all of the houses on the beach. This year they caught the Mosher's and gave them a hefty fine. So I don't think we will be shooting them off there next year, we will watch the neighbors beside us and let them get the ticket. LOL We both had a good 4th with our families and Kent came home on Sunday.