Bad News

I really wish that I wasn't writing to tell you this right now, but Blue was hit by car and died. I was throwing him his ball in our yard. I threw it a little too far and it rolled out into the street in front of our house. I tried calling him back, but it was too late. He ran out into the street to get his ball and a kid speeding down the street in his truck hit him. He died instantly so at least he was not in pain.

We will miss him very much. He was by far the best dog I have ever had. He was so laid back and such a nice dog. He did not have a mean bone in his body. All he cared about was food, his ball, and Eric and I. He never would have thought of leaving the yard if his ball was not in the street.

I have never felt so horrible about loosing a pet as I feel about loosing Blue. It is hard to think that he will not be there to greet us at our car door every time we come home, or poking his head in the sliding door every time I cook bacon. I can't even imagine going to our property without him. And it is impossible to think that we will ever find another dog that we will love as much as we loved Blue.

Here are a bunch of posts with Blue in them.

http://eric-dani.blogspot.com/2006/05/blue.html

http://eric-dani.blogspot.com/2006/05/memorial-day.html

http://eric-dani.blogspot.com/2007/02/fun-in-snow.html

http://eric-dani.blogspot.com/2007/05/memorial-day-at-property.html

http://eric-dani.blogspot.com/2007/08/ocean.html
http://eric-dani.blogspot.com/2007/09/labor-day-at-property.html

http://eric-dani.blogspot.com/2007/11/miracle-grow.html

http://eric-dani.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-years-at-property.html

http://eric-dani.blogspot.com/2007/12/blue-in-snow.html

http://eric-dani.blogspot.com/2008/01/jim-lynns-house.html

Sunflowers are Growing Taller

Just thought I would post a few pictures of how our sunflowers are doing this year. Eric dug a bunch of huge holes this year and we filled the with a lot of compost in hopes that our sunflowers would be huge this year. They are looking pretty good so far.



I also planted a clematis and some ground cover under Eric's rebar.

Mad River Road

Eric and I decided to spend 4th of July weekend at the Property this year. Not the greatest idea. There were so many mosquitos that we spent the majority of the time hiding in the tent. I did get the chance to kick Eric's butt in Cribbage a number of times, but it wasn't exactly our most exciting trip over there. So we decided to go out and check out Mad River road. We had never gone up there and had heard it was really cool. So we just got in my car and went. Mad River road is road that leaves from just past the Ardenvoir Store. It leads right up into the mountains. I think it goes up Tyee Ridge according to Google Maps.

   

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The road is paved for a really long way, but there are a number of dirt or gravel roads. We did not go on the gravel at all, we just kept going until the pavement stopped. The roads are all marked because it is in the Wenatchee National Forest and they are used as fire roads. But we didn't have a map with us so we had no idea what the numbers meant. Here is a basic map of all the trails and roads. It was a little scary up there because the roads were narrow and it was windy, but the views were amazing. You can see in these pictures the type of roads they were. We tried to look for our property from up there but were not able to find it. There is another ridge between Mad River Road and our Property. But we were able to see portions of Entiat River Road as we drove along and were able to locate them later as we drove back. You can barely see it from a distance below. That is how far away we were. Here is the zoomed in picture of the same shot. You can see the red roof and there is a little white building in front of it. That little white building is a house made out of cement blocks that is really easy to pick up when you are driving along the Entiat River Road. When you are driving by the house, if you look high up into the hills to the southwest you can barely see a road up there near the top of the ridge. We also saw some snow still up there in the mountains across the way from where we were at. We will for sure head up there again to check more things out. But next time we will drive the truck and bring a map. Here are some more pictures.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/S92J4tqWF6kCvscc8

Fireworks

We didn't light any fireworks off this year. They don't allow fireworks at our property because of the extreme fire danger. But we did see an amazing display before we headed over there. Some of you may have seen it and thought someone got excited and blew off all of their fireworks early, but really it was just Zeus having a little fun.