Tuesday, April 29th

Well we went to Eastern Washington last weekend to:

1) Try to get a Turkey (the season is open)
2) Look at a piece of land

- We didn't get either one.

The turkeys were there - at least they were before hunting season. All of the locals I talked to said "they were everywhere just last week". But now that hunting season is underway it seems that they have disappeared. Thats just like a turkey - hang around until someone shoots at you or your buddy then go hide...

The land deal went south on Sunday afternoon when we were driving home - that is a LONG trip. Then there were questions we had, and we weren't too happy with the Realtor - it seemed like he was telling us what we wanted to hear and to "pay full price" because he wanted us to have the land without offer/counter offer proposals. We asked him about the gold mine that was just approved after YEARS of wrangling and specifically asked if it might affect this acreage where we were looking. The realtor said that the mine was several miles off and that it wouldn't have any impact on what we were looking at. Well, Melissa looked into it yesterday, wrote a couple of emails and made a phone call to the USFS and they told her that traffic (dumptrucks) from the mine would be on the road less than a mile from the property and that mine employees would be traveling to the mine on the road that we would use to get to the property!

CRAP!!!!

So I talked to the Realtor yesterday afternoon and told him to send our earnest money check back and that we were not interested in the property any longer. Melissa and I were/are disappointed that this property won't work out for us because it was really nice up there and it would have been a great get away spot that eventually we wanted to live on. Bummer.

We will just keep looking and putting our money away until we find another one - maybe a little closer! But overall it was a good weekend because:

1) We got away from the city and saw some country that we had never seem before and..
2) I got to go Turkey hunting and be out in the woods by myself for a few hours and...
3) We got to spend time together and do the things we like to do like.... go to garage sales...

LOL!!!

.... Next weekend.... Clam Digging on the coast!!!!

Friday, April 25th

Happy Birthday Katie!!!!! Whoo-Hoo!!!!

It's a nice day here in Bellevue, the sun is shining in my window and I'm looking forward to going east of the mountains with my wife this weekend. Originally it started out as a Turkey hunting trip (still is), but now we are going to look at a piece of property also. I have ALWAYS wanted a place in the woods that I could "escape" to and just relax.

Next weekend we will be going to the coast AGAIN to dig razor clams - Dad is HOOKED!!!!

Do you like the Jack Nicholson photo below? It's from the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". I used it at my last job because it was really crazy some times and a lot of the time we just made up stuff as we went along!

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I had something written here but Melissa (the editor) made me delete it.

Plangnet Daily Blog!!!

This is a test of the new Plangnet Blog. We can write stuff here and send the link to all of our friends and family!!!!