First Friday, Camas Wa., Car show!!

After Hubby got home from work, he said there was a big car show in downtown Camas. Camas has a First Friday activity with the downtown merchants every month, this month they also has a car show! So we went down to see all the cars!

 I fell in love with this root beer brown beauty!

 Foster Farms Chickens!!! LOL LOL

 She is pretty from the front too!! I loved the lighting on this car, for the pics.

 This is friends of ours, car.

 (more to come on this one, in later post, cool grill!)

 This is a brand new car, done in retro style!

 Wiley Coyote!

 Hudson! (Hudson Hornet from cars! More to come on that too!)

 1937 Mercedes!

 We had an Elvis sighting in Camas!!! um wait who is that beside him!!!!  ( I was way out in the middle of the street! Had no idea I showed up in the picture!!! LOL)

 There is those darn chickens again!!! LOL

More to come, 22 pics in a post is enough!!!

Dairy fire 2nd post

So I went over to see how they all were doing. These are some of the truck and trailers that were relocating the cows. They kept the dry cows there, and the calves. Some of the older cows went to the sale. Just a fact of life. 

 Trucks pulled out! On the right are the cow sheds. In the back is, I believe the silage bin.

 A couple of the dry cows. Directly behind them on the other side of this shed is where the barn burnt.

 The neighbors are taking good care of them!! Muffins, cookies, juice and milk. Cases of water. Dave Rocha went to Subway and brought back sandwiches for everyones lunch!! So nice of him!

 Moved everything across the road so all the guys could eat.

 The main house is just to the right of that bush on the right side of this pic. The fire was so hot that it curled the vinyl siding on the house!!!

 It was the old original wood barn that burnt, on the left is the milk parlor, on the right is another cow shed. A PUD worker driving by at 12:30am seen embers up in the very top of the hay loft. He stopped and alerted them to the fire. No electricity up that high, so they have no idea how the fire started.

 The cow sheds are all on the left and right of the old wooden barn.

 A bunch of tired folks. And a little  gobsmacked.

 They did not lose any cows in the fire, contrary to what the news reported. They had a cow that was in the wrong place, who had a calf, they found her and the calf wandered out a few minutes later.

 Sad, that barn was an icon. It will be interesting to see what they determined started the fire.

Talking to the retired folks, Ruby, Mom, said that she was worried for the kids now. Because they have no income now that the cows are gone.
I hope they can recover, dont know if the county will let them rebuild, as this barn is right next to a major waterway. A lot of changes to come.

County Dairy icon, burns to the ground.

News copters in the sky.

Sadly the dairy where I have bought my hay for 20+ years, has lost the milking barn. It burnt to the ground starting around midnight last night. Stauffers Dairy in Washougal Washington. 

These are the kindest most genuine people that I know. 

I am going down there later, and will try to get some pictures.

The Dairy was started in 1937.

They have a really neat photo hanging on the wall in the main house that shows them putting up hay with horses, over a bridge into the hay loft!! Hard to describe.

So sad for them, the other local dairys are helping out by coming to get the 140 milk cows, so they can be milked. They only lost 2 cows in the fire.

I can smell the smoke from the fire outside.

Meanwhile, this video says it all.
http://www.kgw.com/news/local/2-alarm-fire-hits-Stauffers-Dairy-in-Clark-County-161063725.html

Some pictures from the news.

Ponies, and the garden.

Well here is my garden for this year. I planted, Walla Walla onions, tomatos, jalepenos, mini pumpkins, Blue lake pole beans, corn-peaches and cream and jubilee, and zucchini, and a mixed bag of squash. That should keep me busy! 

 Eh oh, they seen me, well two of them, lol Mickey threw her head up with a what, is going on! LOL

 "See if she will open the gate!!"  No sorry fat girls.

 My first row of corn, I think it just may be "knee high, by the 4th of July!"

 "She is not opening the gate."

 "Oh well I will just eat some more."  Thats why I am not opening the gate, she looks like a prego equipotimus!!!

 Easy "Really, your not going to open it?"

 Once they figured out I wasnt, they went back to eating.

 Old mare still looking good at 27.

 I rode Emma today too!!! Yeay  See proof, she has saddle marks, which she kindly highlighted by rolling.

 It was a pretty day today! (yeah I know she is fat too!)

 Love the tongue! And behind me, trying to figure out what I am doing....

 Silly old mare, what a look!

 She is graying. Starting to look like an old mare.

 This stupid Weeping Willow, lived in a 5 gallon bucket of water for 5+ years! I finally stuck it in the ground around 2000, I think. darn thing is 30 feet tall now!!

Emmas crazy mane, blowing in the wind, straight up!!

 Goofy girl, she was good today.

 It was difficult taking pictures, most of the time they kept their butts to the sun, hard to get around them and get decent pictures.

 My barrels, and my caveleties. I have to put them inside the bricks, or Emma just mows them over, and I have to fix them every time she goes over them. I am hoping I can get her to respect them a little more. I am having to keep the barrels over on their sides, because a darn Owl is using them for a dinner table. Leaving me bits and pieces of mice and whole garter snakes, among other things!!! Yeck!!!!

 These Daisy's are everywhere right now. Cute buy a pain. I mowed the pasture last week, will have to mow again soon.

 Strawberry Rhubarb! I really am going to make a pie. Even if Hubby says he does not like Rhubarb pie. I can eat it raw!! LOL

 Most of my Dahlias are up, the big ones are the ones from last year, the new ones are only up 6 inches.

 The first bud ready to open soon.

 Nasturtiums with a Dahlia in the middle.

 And my wind chime, I was given for my Birthday a few years ago, from the Equestrian team. ( yeah spider webs, I walked through a giant web when I stepped up onto the patio above, then did the spider dance! LOL)