On the road again - heading east

The day after the wedding we were on the road again. We loaded 43 bins of loose apples in Yakima WA. Thirty five bins are headed to the Mott applesauce factory. The remaining 8 bins of organic apples will be sliced, dipped in ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and bagged into individual serving sized bags and sent to your local Costco (and sold for over $4 dollars a pound). We make our first delivery in Wisconsin on Friday and the second delivery in upstate NY on Tuesday. We hope to spend Labor day at Lake Ontario or the Erie Canal.

Some scenes from our trip eastward.

There are numerous forest fires burning in Idaho and Montana. We never saw flames but this valley just east of Missoula was filled with smoke as was much of western Montana.

We crossed North Dakota on Thursday. We took at rest stop at Painted Canyon in the Teddy Roosevelt National Park- we took lots of pictures- but I especially liked this one of Kurt looking over the edge of the canyon.

Just down the road we saw a herd of buffalo out grazing

Later we passed the "Enchanted Highway" - which is marked by this giant sculture at the freeway exit. Apparently there are more sculptures along the side road, but we will have to wait til we make a trip in the car to find out.

As always, the crops interest us. Here is a huge field of sunflowers, yet to be harvested. We also noticed that all the wheat crops have been harvested but none of the corn from WA to Wisconsin has been cut down.

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Our niece Emily gets married

We are in Sequim this weekend for the marriage of Emily and Phil

Here are a few snapshots
The bride and Groom, Mr and Mrs Cecere


Su, the mother of the bride, being escorted down the aisle

Nat and Madeline

Joanie, Jay and Su

Kurt gets bug-smeared in E. Oregon

Kurt was driving through Eastern Oregon the other morning when he encountered a swarm of bugs- that smeared all over his windshield. Here are two views- from the inside and outside the window.... He ended up going to the truck wash in Portland later that day






And here is a funny one- Notice the name of this trucking company........


It says Bert Matter Inc.

What we have been up to lately.......

Newest news- Aug 22nd- Joanie got home to KF for a few days and managed to lay tile in the new bathroom. Here's a snapshot

Ok, first of all we have a darling new grand son, Mark.....And we got to stay in Denver for his first four days- we think grandparenthood is great!

Then we drove the truck back to Washington and went back to Kettle Falls for 6 days. We completed two projects while there:
Laying cement board on the new bathroom floor......

and hanging drywall in the new bathroom (what a great view the bathtub will have)........


Then we drove back over to the west side of the state and visited Jay at his nursing home on Bainbridge Island. He is doing as well as can be expected- he had lots of smiles for us on this day...


Then we got back in the truck and loaded a shipment of frozen crab near Seattle. It was a gorgeous day. This is a view of the Space Needle and Lake Union.

We took the crab to L.A. in 3 days, reloaded with California rice and delivered that in Seattle this morning. We will depart on another trip on Friday night or Saturday morning- but just a short one because we will be in Sequim next weekend for our niece Emily's wedding