This last weekend, Phil and I went to the Doels home in Ocean Park, WA and spent the weekend with them at the beach. I picked Phil up at noon on Friday, and we made our great escape. As you can see, the weather was just beautiful. We spent three hours walking the beach, checking out garage sales and meeting new friends. Enjoy our latest escape.
It was a little cool, so Phil had to keep me warm while posing for pics on the Long Beach Peninsula. 
We bought some tuna and Bill and Becky helped us can it. We put a sprig of rosemary and some garlic in the bottom of a half-pint jar and then filled with tuna.
Phil helped by holding the jars while I stuffed them.
We ended up with 12 half-pints and one quart. Going to be good stuff!!!
Becky had gotten a dehydrator at a local garage sale. So we decided to try drying some grapes, a peach, nectarine, apple and orange.
After approximately two days of drying, we got some semi-dried apples and the rest was a bust. This dryer is going to the goodwill. 
We had some local friends drop in to see us as well.
This little buck had some mini horns on his head. Do you see them???? Well, they were there.
We decided to have lunch at the new restaurant in Long Beach on Sunday while we did an excursion to the quilt shops looking for a specific brown fabric. It was called the Lost Roo and it had an Australian theme. So, the guys had to visit with the greeter in the lobby.
On the way back to the beach house, we stopped in Tapestry Rose - part ice cream parlor and part knitting shop. Phil found a kindred spirit friend, Kalani. She didn't like ice cream and was just as bored as Phil was while he waited for his. Thanks, Kalani for being a good sport and posing for us. Hope you enjoyed your trip to the beach.
Becky didn't have enough in her waffle cone so she tried to get some of Phil's chocolate ice cream. As you can see, a sunny day at the beach.
We walked about three 1/2 miles on the beach. Bill and Phil stomped occasionally at the water's edge to see if there were any clam "shows".
Phil says" I found one. I found one!!!"
Yep, that is what we look for. So, we took this pic to remind ourselves of what to look for when clamming starts in a month. Look out clams, we will be licensed and armed !!!
Later in the day, Bill went out to surf fish and Phil tried to see more clam shows. This little pesty fish was on the hook and wouldn't let go.
Don't know what kind he was, but he had horns, not much meat to him and kinda vicious looking. Well, if he was bigger, maybe vicious looking. :-)
We were also able to get some quilting in. Bill put up the rack and we rehung Becky's beach quilt in the great room. 
I worked on Village Kids quilt tops. This was a "fire teddy bear" quilt, some little boy will love.
A little Mary Englebright for a little girl.
We found this panel at the Boardwalk Quilt shop in Long Beach. Becky put hers together for a baby shower, and mine will go to Caleb who has a book with these characters in it. Let's see, there is Eleanor the Elephant, Geri the Giraffe, Timmy the Tiger, Larry the Lion and Mary the Monkey. Do you think I read the book to Caleb very much??? He will love it either on the wall or playing on it on the floor. Hope you enjoyed our recent journey. I do have lots more pics that I need to put on of my summer trip back to MI - two months worth. But they will have to wait until I can get a little more time. Between computer troubles and a busy schedule, well....look forward to the future for more from us northwest LaVoys. Have a great week.
