More Fun and Food With Friends

Ginger took us to Bauman Farms for some very fresh produce. Since we will only be in Oregon a few more days (and have no idea of limitations on what produce we would be able to take into California--if even the inspection station is open), we just got a little bit and drooled a lot. Peaches, berries, plums, apricots, corn, green beans, red leaf lettuce four times bigger than anything I have ever seen at home--beets, eggplant, peppers and so on.

Next stop, E.Z. Orchards, also a produce stand. But this time we stopped for peach short cake!

Cary and I split one. Mark got a chocolate milk shake. We saw several tables of men in uniforms, thought maybe they had come on the bus as part of a soccer or other sports team...Cary asked one of them and found out they were seed salesmen!

After dropping off our produce at the trailer we returned to Ginger and Mark's to see her recent decorating and gardening endeavors. And catch up on the past year. We are both Tucson natives, knew several of the same people and worked for a year at the same school and have managed to do this nearly ever year since she moved to Oregon over 20 years ago. We even visited her when she lived in Minnesota. I should leave out the next part out of guilt, but we again went out to eat, The Red Lobster this time. And came back to birthday cake! Cary and Mark both have September birthdays, so Ginger baked a cake. And got Cary a card.

We will be in Wisconsin the next time we celebrate his birthday, so I guess he gets another cake then.

Cary took this picture before we ever got to Ginger and Mark's today.
A great car ready for cruising and showing. A '69 Buick Vista Cruiser sport wagon. Very straight, unmolested body. Auto, with a 455. the original interior was immaculate. $6500. A good thing this car is so far from Tucson.