Larry & Shirley (and the Messy Monkeys): Scenes from Milltown 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Scenes from Milltown 2009

Another fabulous year!

The sun finally makes an appearance the weekend of Milltown #1:

This year's camping spot.... Will try to avoid this area in the future, as it was not nearly as level as it looked--had to use a lot of blocks on the downhill side!

Cruisin' the trails....

The blackberries looked good. At least good enough to photograph. To my "shame," I never picked and ate any (although others did). Maybe I was afraid I'd get blackberry juice on my nice clothes! :)

Streaky clouds during Milltown #2

A couple idyllic scenes:

One more walk on the trail...

Just before leaving the end of Milltown #2, I got my picture taken with a dear friend (s.w.) I've know since childhood:

Time to leave...'til next year!

1 comment:

Unknown said...: Oh, the special memories of Milltown convention...I really do miss that place...maybe when our two youngest leave home (in 11th grade now) we can stay up in WA until AFTER Milltown...As it is now, the kids start school the first few days of August! Thanks for the memories!; September 17, 2009 at 8:58 PM

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Welcome to Our Place - Updated for Spring 2012

We live between Marysville and Granite Falls. Larry still works at Crane-Eldec in Lynnwood, but due to a change in his work schedule in February 2011, he is no longer in a van pool. Instead he bought himself a Ford Focus to use as his work car. Shirley is Mom, "chauffeur," and chief bunny caretaker. We have two daughters: Rosanna, age 20, and Caroline, age 17.We used to have two pet bunny brothers, Lucky and Thumper, who turned 9 years old on October 5. But Lucky got really sick, and had him put to sleep a few days before Christmas last year. So sad.... Thumper doesn't even miss him; he is happy as long as he is fed!

Larry and Shirley are really into running this year, qualifying for Half Fanatics in January. The Seattle Rock-n-Roll half marathon will be our fourth in 2012, and we would like to do four more, if possible, and move up in Half Fanatics!
Caroline is a junior in high school, and Rosanna continues to work at the Ralph Lauren Polo store at Seattle Premium Outlets in Tulalip.

We all continue to enjoy taking photos, and Rosanna also took a photography class at Everett Community College last spring. (We bought her a Nikon DSLR for the class). She has made some money doing photography for a local business in nearby Granite Falls last fall. And I am still using my super tiny Olympus camera for photos "on the run!"