Another Day Off

We hoped for some blue skies, but it actually rained--either during the night or early morning! However, that did not stop us from heading out to the yard sales.

The guy who has this 1952 Cadillac in his garage had lots of items the Pickers (from TV) might be interested in! What a shame that this and the car in the following picture are just sitting here, not driven.

A 1935 Plymouth coupe, his brother's car, has been stored here 15 years!

For Sheila, this hen had escaped her coop. The family cat kept its distance--the hen picks on it!

 Around the corner from the hen, was the old movie theater, due to be demolished for a storage facility. I took a picture of it one of the other times we were here.

The redwoods are gorgeous, one of our favorite things about this part of the country. We drove this narrow road to another yard sale. Shown below.

We managed to limit our total expenditure to $3.75. I found some fabric and a sweatshirt. Cary spent a quarter on a magazine celebrating 100 years of Walgreen's, mainly for the pictures of the old cars!

Next was the farmers' market where, I believe, one of the rare times that Cary passed up any of the treats at the bakery truck. We were teased with a patch of blue sky and sunshine, but clouds and cold ruled the day.

Friday--Yard Sales and Lunch

I cannot believe how cool and cloudy this month has been. Today was no exception. I realize I will be wishing for these temperatures in a very short time (we expect to be home in a week), but it is still cold!

We started with some yard sales in Crescent City, nothing good. One lady was clearing out because she was moving back to Arizona--Page--apparently there is a teacher shortage there.

We headed to Brookings and found two sales. The area is known as the Banana Belt for its usually warmer than other coastal town temperatures--not today though!

This was the second one--an estate sale. Cary bought a mug and I found three patterns. Cheap thrills!

To get to the first sale we had to cross this wooden bridge! It is about 20 feet above the river. I took this on our way out.

The trees were yellow on top, hard to see in the photo.

Back at the trailer I cut out 11 strips of fabric, 6" x 42" with the hope that one day I will actually cut out all the squares for the crescent shapes that I need to start sewing on a purse pattern I have had a few years!

We are off again tomorrow: Farmers' Market, a few yard sales and probably Walmart. I am hoping for sunshine!

We had lunch at Pancho's, went to the quilt store (they had a nice chair, an electric fireplace and some magazines for Cary), Fred Myers for fuel. By the time we got home, the sun still was playing peek-a-boo with us.

Thursday

 

 I tried putting these two pictures side by side so that you could see just why I thought the first young man, Jacob, strongly resembled my son Tim. Jacob and a friend were touring the lighthouse and agreed to let me take his picture.

Since I had run downstairs to get my camera, I decided to take a few pictures out of the bedroom windows before my next group came up.

The fog had lifted a little by the time we walked back to the parking lot. Our hours today were just 11:00-1:00. Tomorrow and Saturday it will be closed, open on Sunday 2:00-4:00, 3:00-4:00 on Monday. We will head to Eureka Tuesday for a few days before descending into the heat after that. The month has gone quickly!

It is not warming up!

Before time to go to work I took a walk around part of the park. Lots of black birds (crows?) eating fruit.

Lots of fog still

Walking from the parking lot, you can see that by 9:30 a.m. the fog was not showing any signs of lifting soon.

 I caught the light flashing.

This is after work around noon on Tuesday.

Wednesday morning the sun peeked out and gave us hope for afternoon blue skies. It may have lasted 30 minutes!

We haven't had to turn on the heater after work before, but have done it the last two days. Cary just reported it is 56 degrees at 6:11 p.m. Wednesday. I am skipping my evening walk.

As a side note, The Pickers are near Crescent City! On TV, not sure when it was filmed. They just bought a Trees of Mystery roadside sign. I hope Susan is watching too!

From the Saturday Potluck

Here is a better picture of  Gary and the group of ladies who have been in his bedroom to see his quilt! Gary's girlfriend, Janelle, is the one in back with her arms outstretched! I am in shadows.

Janelle is the one who told me about the quilt show.

Yay

When we got back to the trailer after lunch I turned on the computer only to see a blue screen with a swirly and the words, "shutting down." That was 12:30 or so and it went on until nearly 4:00. At that point I went down to the park office (needed quarters anyway, since Sheila isn't around to find them for me) and asked if she knew of a computer service in town. She called Linda, the woman who used to work there on weekends--she recommended a place called Chuck's PC, which is just around the corner from the park.

I explained the problem to the guy there (maybe he is Chuck), and opened the computer to show him. He turned the computer over, took out the battery, put it back in, pushed two keys on the keyboard to shut down anything that might be running (not sure which two--F2 may have been one of them...I will do some research), turned it on so I could put in the password--and all is well. He said something about Windows 10 having more requirements than my Windows 7, which could be causing the problem. At any rate, for now, the computer is working and everyone in the trailer is happy too! Oh, and no charge! I plan to put up a sign in the laundry room recommending the place.

I wonder if he could fix the sewing machine....

My only picture of the day is of a cute Retro Jr. parked down by the laundry room and showers as we were leaving for work today.

If you need to see what the city and lighthouse looked like today, refer to other pics on the blog. It was deja vu all over again! We had a great group of visitors and were able to cross without getting our feet wet at all.

First the sewing machine, now the computer!

I have to start by saying my computer may be on the way out. Last night the screen conked out, apparently only temporarily--it is back today, but very distorted. If you don't see another post--I am screaming somewhere!

Before the doors opened for business, I climbed up to the tower to take some pictures. Foggy again!

If I were better at directions I could tell you a little more. The white thing resembling half a pie is the cistern.

When the light used to turn in the tower, the town complained about the light flashing all night long, so part of the window either had a curtain or was painted black. There was no need to alert the townsfolk that the lighthouse was near!

The light is now automated and only flashed a signature of 3.5 seconds on, 26.5 seconds off.

Looking down at the ladder that leads to the tower

The water came up right on time, but because we let in an extra group of visitors (from Canada), we got a tad bit wet going back to the parking lot. Some folks got more water than that--probably up to their calves!

After lunch Cary dropped me off here. I spent a couple of hours browsing and shopping. Well, window shopping--none of the fabric or patterns followed me home. There were vendors from Eureka, Brookings and even Coos Bay, besides some of the local shops. Andrea, if you read this, someone has taken over the shop that was the Scottie Dog place. We will spend a few day in Eureka after we leave here.

I love the colors!

Lots of wildlife pictured here

 Do you see Battery Point Lighthouse in this one?

I didn't take enough pictures! I don't know if I will ever attempt to make a quilt, but maybe if I have enough inspiration...I did pick up four free quilting magazines before Cary came to get me.

While waiting in the parking lot, I wasted no time. Lovely flowers.

You can tell by the flower pictures that the sun did come out. Beautiful day. My shoes dried, all is well.