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- 25 October 2011: Trip to Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, and Arches National Parks
- 17 October 2011: Roosevelt Jazz Band at Earshot Jazz Festival 2011
- 26 September 2011: Trip to Olympia area
- 9 May 2011: Our corgi Raffle
- 7 March 2011: Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival 2011
- 15 February 2011: Bonnie's Going to State!
- 9 February 2011: Clark College Jazz Festival 2011
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Visit with Nathan and Robbie
On Friday the 18th of August, we had a chance to visit and lunch with Robbie and Nathan on our way to our rental house in Manzanita, Oregon. We hadn’t been down to Montesano in ages, and as it turned out, it was the most memorable portion of our week of vacation. Their property looked terrific, flowers everywhere, a couple of giant wind chimes made from old fire extinguishers, lots of trees and green everywhere, birds chirping all around. Robbie had spruced up the old work shed with a bold and bright paint job. They’d taken out the wooden deck around the hot tub and poured a concrete deck with inlaid flat river rocks and added easy chairs, tables, an old TV for outdoor summer theater, plus a scattering of solar lamps that Nathan said bathed the deck in a moonglow at night.
We chatted up a storm outside trying to get caught up on recent happenings while the dogs, Pier and Rio, rested nearby. 
Inside, Robbie and Nathan showed off their entries in the Grays Harbor County Fair earlier in the month. Robbie won a Blue Ribbon (and nearly Best-of-Show) with a fabulous quilt of race car teams and also a Blue Ribbon for a photo of a flower garden. . Nathan won a Blue Ribbon for his brilliant sunset photo of the Peter Iredale shipwreck off Fort Stevens near Astoria, Oregon.
Nathan showed us some of the finds they’d made geocaching and also the weatherproof cannisters he’d been making so that he and Robbie could create and stash their own geocaches — they’d hidden three in the Fort Stevens area already. And while Scott, Kim and I looked over the geocaching finds, Robbie enthusiastically listened to a long series of knitting, school, and vacation stories as told by Sandy and Bonnie.
After Nathan BBQ’d some hamburgers patties, we fixed up our burgers and piled on Robbie’s terrific potato salad and bean dish and enjoyed a leisurely lunch out on the deck.
