Our Longveiw Hills Fishing Club took a road trip today up to Tillamook. We took a 20 mile "detour" and went east to the Tillamook Forestry Center. It was truly a great museum and well worth the trip if any of you are in the area. We then (there were 14 of us in 6 vehicles) went to the Tillamook Cheese Factory for lunch. After lunch, some went on the tour of the Cheese Factory, some went home, and several of us went to the Tillamook Sporting Goods Store. There was talk that some of them were also going to go to the Tillamook Air Museum. The trip was about 180 miles round trip so it definitely qualified as one of our road trips. With the perfect weather and beautiful scenery, it was a resounding success!

See, a few hours later and all is forgiven. This really is his "happy face".

Our Kruzer is an indoor cat but we still have to worry about fleas and other nasty things so we have to put a few drops of medicine on his neck once a month. The whole process takes about, oh, three seconds. We have no idea how he knows but he seems to sense when it is time and he runs an hides. Wayde and I even make sure we "approach" him separately so he doesn't get suspicious but it doesn't work, he knows. Anyway, this is obviously a harmless process but you would think we were torturing him. This is what he does after the "event" (in case you can't tell, he is on top of the cupboards in the kitchen) and he won't have anything to do with us for several hours, sometimes not until the next day. Then everything is fine . . . until next month.

Various department at the City of Newport are required to put on an open house for the public each year. When it was the Newport Police Department's turn this January, they asked the volunteers to help. This gives you some idea of what Wayde and I are involved with and the wonderful people we help.