Need a new house??
We savored a gluten free meal of beef/vegetable/rice soup, blueberries, potato salad and frozen fruit bars..YUM!Then it was "arts and crafts" time. Jo and Nancy mixed up and created a new memory stepping stone for me!
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Thursday, July 12, I joined the senior trip to the Pacific coast!
giant redwoods!
We sat on the Fremont bridge for 30 minutes with backed up traffic.....
Visiting the newly remodeled Tillamook Cheese Factory...
processing cheese!
Remember Little Miss Muffet sitting on her tuffet eating her curds and whey? I didn't know then what were "curds and whey".On to Seaside, OR for a few hours. I think I was the only senior to walk the beach.....
One happy sea gull caught a yummy lunch! No guests, please....some live entertainment.....
A few days later our church's senior group visited theEvergreen Aviation Museum
in McMinnville, OR
It's the
A one only wooden air plane built by Howard Hughes Jr.
beach balls used for flotation/Gram G leaving the Spruce Goose.....
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The Spruce Goose (Evergreen Air and Space Museum website)
At the center of our museum stands the original Spruce Goose. Built entirely of wood due to wartime restrictions on metals, this massive airplane stands as a symbol of American industry during World War II. Learn more about the history, first flight, and legacy of this mammoth plane.
The largest wooden airplane ever constructed, and flown only one time, the Spruce Goose represents one of humanity's greatest attempts to conquer the skies. It was born out of a need to move troops and material across the Atlantic Ocean, where in 1942, German submarines were sinking hundreds of Allied ships. Henry Kaiser, steel magnate and shipbuilder, conceived the idea of a massive flying transport and turned to Howard Hughes to design and build it. Hughes took on the task, made even more challenging by the government’s restrictions on materials critical to the war effort, such as steel and aluminum. Six times larger than any aircraft of its time, the Spruce Goose, also known as the Hughes Flying Boat, is made entirely of wood. The press insisted on calling it the “Spruce Goose” despite the fact that the plane is made almost entirely of birch.
The First Flight
The winged giant made only one flight on November 2, 1947. The unannounced decision to fly was made by Hughes during a taxi test. With Hughes at the controls, David Grant as co-pilot, and several engineers, crewmen and journalists on board, the Spruce Goose flew just over one mile at an altitude 
of 70 feet for one minute. The short hop proved to skeptics that the gigantic machine could fly.
of 70 feet for one minute. The short hop proved to skeptics that the gigantic machine could fly.____________________________________________________
Gram G getting closer to space!!
Moon Lander
Moon Walker
Titan Rocket!!
I Touched the Moon!!!
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Friends, Saul and Kahana, over for Friday evening dinner of ribs, corn bread, pasta and Gram G's secret recipe cole slaw! And game of Labyrinth which Saul won! 
The summer is evaporating just as quickly as the water sprayed on plants in this heat! Besides the midsummer fun I am trying to practice piano an hour a day to get back to knowing my original songs.....
I am also busy job shopping. I haven't found the right fit yet. It is a full time job just looking for a job. I will soon be a working lady.
BUT....not before a midsummer surprise! You all come back now, you hear, to find out what!!
This has been a good 14 "midsummer" fun days in the life of Grandma G.
"Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice." (Proverbs 27:9)
