Threshing Bee

Marie had called yesterday and left me a voice mail about some supplies she needed.  Vera and I were going out to dinner, so we just went to Longview instead of Castle Rock and picked up the stuff she needed at Walmart.   Then we got up early this morning and ran the supplies up to her before going to the Threshing Bee at Toledo.

This was our first view after getting out of the Blazer.

After watching the steam powered equipment cutting firewood with a buzz saw for a little while we went to the miniature engines.  We ran into our friends Jim and Carole there, Vera and Carole looked at antique sewing machines while Jim and I looked at the miniatures and talked.

 There didn't seem to be as many tractors or vendors this year.  The weather was perfect for walking around.  I decided to look for a nice Mason jar for one of my solar lights so we had a reason to look at all the booths.  We found quite a few to choose from and I finally picked out a quart one with large letters on it.  I also found a handle for one of my old tools.

While we were looking for the Mason jar I saw this set up, I wonder if they raise it up so the passengers have a better view.

If it was green this Ford would have fit in better.

At the other end of the line was this lawn mower puller, it is quite a contrast between it and that John Deere beside it.

Vera's dad had a truck like this that he used to haul logs.

After we looked at this classic, we saw Myrna, the sister of one of my classmates who drives in the tractors pulls.  She said there was about another hour before the pulling started so we decided to pick up the jar and handle and head home.  Barry and several of our friends were there about the same time but we never ran into any of them.

Barry and Mona  are relaxing after taking us to dinner at the 49er, Thank You, it was great!  I spent the rest of the day getting the motor home loaded for tomorrow's Cowlitz Valley RC Flyers barbecue.

When I was taking the camera to the motor home I saw Barry looking for Bentley who was on a walkabout.  He located him on the back deck, Bentley spent a bunch of time checking out the ferns as he slowly made his way back to the motor home.

On the way back he went behind the Japanese Maple and Barry couldn't coax him out, he insisted on going behind all the ferns on the North side of the house.

When we got back to the motor home Mona had the rabbits out.  Freckles is a little wild yet so had to be on a leash.

Mona is taking Mama rabbit for a walk.