Weekend with Sara & Drew

Went with Sara Burke and Drew to her extended family's beach house on the Oregon coast this weekend. The house was in Yachats, pronounced YAW-hots, which is about 3 hours southwest. Went down for the day and ran around the beach with her folks' yellow labrador, drank lots of rogue beer that we picked up on the way down at the brewery in Newport, ate oysters and dungeness crab we got from the local seafood outfit and played Killer Bunnies (the game that inspired Karl to show up at our wedding reception dressed as a giant bunny. Apparently Drew's heard about it and wanted to play.... now he's addicted, go figure). Had a blast. The weather was great as was the company.

On the way down and back, you can see all the berry bushes on the side of the road are flowering -- some are just starting to have teeny green berries, the beginnings of giant lucious blackberries, raspberries, & marionberries (this one, not this one). I heard the berries will ripen in anywhere from two weeks to a month. I'm excited.

It feels like summer today and yesterday. My dream weather... flip flops, short sleeve tshirts and khakis. Warm breeze yet still cool in the evening. we had a
thunderstorm last night with some pretty cool lighting and a giant sweeping rainbow. The sky looked like Tucson. Some viewers of Fox 12 news posted their pictures... two of my favorites are below: