Saturday, August 9, 2008

A Blog from the Log: Part 2

Nate and Trevor Schnug
Cousins and best friends
Bottoms up! This was the standard pose for these 4! Hours, hours of entertainment
Boating on Priest Lake
Oh Sailor!
Ian, Madison, Nate and Trevor
This time I find myself "borrowing" wifi from the Conoco Station and Travel Park off the highway. I suppose I shouldn't incriminate myself by sharing that should the local authorities ever track me down.
The theme this time: Testosterone! Boys are everywhere!

Cousins Sam and Andrew arrivedd on Tuesday. Shannon and Alan are in Kansas City for a week of music performances and baseball. That makes 4 loud, rowdy, muddy, silly and sometime smelly boys. This is the story of my life! Besides a little picking on little Ian, they are getting along famously - each now has a rock star name, a Secret Agent identity and this morning "Uncle Dave" gave each boy his own Star Wars identity - we now have Andrewkin (Anakin), Sam Wessell (Zam Wessell), Darth Nater (Darth Vader) and R2-Ian2 (R2 D2).


Our 'camping' activities include stream building (which I have to get a pic of - we have extended the stream almost 2/3 the way down the hill), pinecone hunting, sand castle building, and Indian Jones hiking thru the woods. We end each day a bonfire and marshmallows that is always a blast (literally, as Dave adds a punch to the fire with a splash of gasoline to get it going good).


Yesterday DKNI drove about 60 miles to Priest Lake to meet with former neighbors and great friends, the Schnugs. We haven't seen them in a year since they left P'Town for Anchorage, AK. We had a great time reconnecting! We all swam and boated and ate and ate and ate wonderful meats that Cathy cooked on the Traeger grill. It was the yummiest smoked meat!


Oh, one more interesting place we visited - the Forrest Bird Museum of Aviation and Invention. What a trip this place was. This guy has a compound about 5 miles from the cabin just outside of Garfield Bay. Dr. Bird, a former US Army Air Corps pilot, invented the first ventilator/medical respirator that is still used today in all cardiopulmonary care units. Probably the most touching thing we saw at the museum was a white board and all over both sides were messages that visitors had written to Dr. Bird thanking him for saving their lives. Especially the kids who were born as preemies and never would have lived with out his respirators.


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