What do Scotsmen and Washingtonites have in common?

Some people like to toss phone poles -

Some people like to climb phone poles -

Either way, both like to play with wood! 

Since we've been in WA we have done nothing but the aunt's business - i.e. banking, garage sale, sale of farm, yard work, etc.  Saturday came and it turned out to be a beautiful sunny day.  Real sun and warm weather for a change.  So we decided to take a "fun" day and go to Deming and see the log show that they hold every year.  Basically it is a time for the loggers of the area (and some out of area) to come and compete in different  aspects of the logging industry.   Some of the competitions were axe throwing, pole climbing, log rolling (in water of course), iron man relay, stump chopping, two man saw and one man saw.  Then the most anticipated event was chainsaws that were attached to car engines!  It takes four men to move the thing!  Two men hold the saw and it takes about 1.2 seconds to cut through a medium size log.  Talk about testosterone!  I ended up with a sunburn (yeah) but had a great time being in the sunshine and watching men and WOMEN doing their thing with wood.

Now it is Monday and it is back to work.  Thank goodness the sun is shining and according to the weatherman it is supposed to stay nice and dry with sun and some clouds for the rest of the week.  We need to start sorting things for the garage sale this weekend.  Do you realize how much "stuff" will accumulate in a farmhouse occupied by a depression era baby that had lived there for over 40 years?  You don't really want to know.  Let's just say that it will take us about three complete days sorting, throwing out and marking for the sale.  I did put the large appliances on Craig's List to try and get rid of them before the sale and we did sell two of the four.  Now it's just small trinkets, dishes and other odds and ends.  It's going to be a looonnnggg week.  BUT the good thing is once this is done and the farm is sold we can come up here while the aunt is still alive and just enjoy ourselves.  Once she is gone we have decided not to come back here for quite a while.  No offense Pacific northwest people, but I hate it up here.

In about two weeks time we will be flying back to CA to get ready for our motorcycle trips that will take us close to 3000 miles of travel.  We are going to enjoy the 4th holiday up at Donner Lake again this year first.  Then we are home for about a week.  After that I fly to NY (a command performance from my mother) and Karl goes to his high school reunion.  When I return back home I will have only one day to get ready for the MC trip.  Phew!  July is going to fly by.