Champoeg State Park – Riveted

Twenty Pounds of Blueberries

Laura Domela — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:58:34 +0000

Yesterday we headed over to Cora's Crop Blueberry Farm (just down the road from Champoeg State Park), to pick some blueberries. And by "some" we meant business because we came home with 20lbs of the dang things.

There were so many gorgeous ripe berries that it was hard to stop picking! We filled two smaller buckets and one large bucket right to the top, so we had no choice but to stop unless we wanted to start filling our pockets. It was so much fun!

Twenty pounds!! (I think they were about $1.20/lb.) We've got a couple big bags of berries in the freezer already, but we'll probably freeze a bunch more today.

Last night we smoked some jalapeno poppers and filled ourselves up a little too much with those for my original, more elaborate dinner plan, so we just roasted a couple hot dogs over the fire (always a big hit with the 6-year olds), followed by marshmallows, of course.

We're heading down to McMinnville this afternoon to Willamette Wine Country RV Park (awww, no more campfires), but we'll be at a drum corps show tonight so we won't miss it too much.

Champoeg State Park

Laura Domela — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 13:35:25 +0000

Well here we are camping in our own back yard again! Or…30 minutes from our backyard anyway (Champoeg State Park), and since we can't keep our Airstream at home (driveway too steep, nowhere to turn around) we'll have to settle for this.

Sucks, doesn't it? Oh wait, it doesn't. We're here with some family and having a lovely time. Last night we grilled some salmon and zucchini (after it cooled down from the 100 degrees it was yesterday), and then built a fire for some marshmallow roasting and a couple ghost stories complete with scary reenactment by a lantern-carrying 6 year old with a fabulous, dark sense of humor.

Super fun!

Today we're going to go over to Cora's Crop to pick some blueberries, do some more work teaching the little one to ride her pink cruiser, cook some yum food, and probably more marshmallows and ghost stories will happen later tonight.

Spring in the Pacific Northwest is SO Gorgeous!

Laura Domela — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:43:54 +0000

I cooked some chicken in the little orange slow cooker that my mom got us for the Airstream and it turned out great (chicken with cilantro, leek, mushrooms, garlic, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar and white wine, served with some sauteed green beans, delicious). After dinner we went for a nice hike along the river. Gorgeous evening!

Back at the Airstream as the sun sets.

Tonight we plan to catch up on our DVR via the Slingbox and Slingbox app on my iPad. Yep. We're dorks.