All posts by Gary

We are full time travelers. We live in a 34 foot motor home. We travel from place to place towing a white Sprinter Van full of my tools and two Cattrikes. I like to play bluegrass music and you may find me at Bluegrass Festivals in Arizona during the winter months and in Washington and Oregon during the summer. We will also visit our daughter, Renee and her family in the Austen Texas area.

Grandparents Day:

There really is a Grandparents Day; it is the first Sunday after Labor Day. In the Tice household we are celebrating Grandparents weekend. Jerry and Janene Tice have traveled here from Petersburg Illinois so Georgia Ann has all four of her grandparents here. Mark Tice, Georgia’s Uncle from Manhattan, also arrived via Thailand and Hong Cong. Jet lag and sleep deprivation could not dampen the celebration of new life. Continue reading Grandparents Day:

Fair Winds and Hot Sailing:

I used to have a favorite one liner that I used at every opportunity. “I had fun last summer, I went sailing both days!” There was a time here in the Scappoose – St. Helens area that that could be literally true. When we first moved into the area in the mid seventies, we could never get ripe tomatoes out of our garden. Only little green tomatoes and even hanging the vines in the garage only produced little green rotten tomatoes. That is no longer true. Continue reading Fair Winds and Hot Sailing: