Just a few more pictures

The river meets the ocean

. The light house across the river from the South Jetty.

The seals and sea lions are just over the top of the log. The dark spot is one of them.

Well we did have a great afternoon. After we left the Jetty we went to the library and then back to the dock and had a cup of the famous Umpqua ice cream. What a great way to spend Valentines afternoon.

Happy Valentine Day

We enjoyed a lovely day in Bandon. We decided to celebrate this day of love by doing something we both love to do. We went to the Bandon Fish Market and bought fish and chips. Then we drove out to the South Jetty and enjoyed watching the ocean and the seals and sea lions and of course we had to share part of our chips with the ever friendly seagulls. One "big boy" thought the front of our van was just for him to set on and watch of eat. We called this one the "Captain" then we had some great waves and I tried to take some pictures.

Our lunch was really good and we did enjoy it with the company of the gulls. I tried to take pictures of the seals and sea lions as we had at least five of them off the South Jetty. No luck in getting their pictures.

We had some pretty big waves and as they hit the North Jetty some big plumes. Shirl was a happy beach comber as he just walked along the beach for a short distance and found about 6 Or 7 good size agates. This is where the picture is suppose to be, but I have not learned how to get them where I want them. Instruction anyone?? They all show up at the top.

Take a look at the Coquille River Lighthouse that is being restored and they have painted it back to the original colors. Seems strange as we had always seen it as all white. Check later for more pictures.

One more time

Oh, I finally did it. This is a picture of the Christmas cactus named "Melba" It is the original plant that was given to my mom when my sister Melba was born. It decided to start blooming the week of Christmas and just before we left for Houston. This is what is left of all the blooms. You might know it did most of it's blooming while we were in Texas and this is what we found when we arrived home. It has been beautiful and it is still blooming with several more flowers. Keep in mind this plant is at least as old as my sister.

This little beauty queen is "Angel". I could not resist taking her picture while we were visiting Eric and Erika and Alex in Texas. She is just a bundle of love and really sweet. The "Shadow" cat is the other little queen at the Texas Stewarts and is so sweet and fun to love.

Now to figure out how to get the pictures in the right place????

Okay I will try one more time.

This precious puppy is my PaBu with her big old stuffed lion. She loves to sleep with on the sofa. She will gather up all of her toys and place them around the lion so she can sleep with them.

Okay now I have a strange lighthouse. Not one I am familiar with but it is a lighthouse. ?????? Enjoy!

Still working on the picture

Today was another exciting day in the life of living by the sea. We did not have rain today, but last night was a real doozy of a storm. Scared PaBu so bad she came tearing up the stairs and jump right in the middle of the bed. She usually sleeps downstairs. Today we just had a light fog and a little sun between the clouds.

We did make a short trip to the library and that was about all the excitement we have going on now.

It was a nice surprise to hear from Alyssa it was very brief. We will hope to hear again soon.

I am going to try again to find a picture to post and see if it works. I just can't seem to get it right.

Okay, I will try this again. First off, my darling is home and pretty much back to normal. I am ever so happy to have him home. I am just not sure that he is as happy as I am. He says, he had just finally gotten the nurses trained to bring him jam for his toast and ice for his water. Oh, well now if he wants jam for his toast he can get it himself and the same with the water.

PaBu was so excited to see him, that she actually fell over her front feet and flipped over on her back when she realized he was actually getting out of the van. One very happy pup-dog. She had spent the whole week on the floor staring at the front door waiting for him to come through it.

We have had two days with a little sun and blue sky between rain showers which has been nice since we had a solid week of solid rain, sleet, snow. Oh, yes we have had snow about 1 inch all over Bandon. I can do without the black-ice, but the rest was okay. The one day I drove up to the hospital the snow on all the trees along the highway was truly beautiful. I just wished I had, had my camera. We had some pretty awesome waves and I wanted to post pictures, but have not yet discovered the secret of how to do that. My girls have given me further instructions and said they will walk me through it when I am ready to try again. We shall see.