Rockaway Retreat

Greetings from Starbucks in Tillamook, Oregon, where I am having a latte and pumpkin bread for lunch, to be followed down the road by a scoop of Tillamook ice cream.

 I took these photos this morning, just after my beach walk.  It's pretty much the scene here on the coast, cloudy/foggy and cool.  No wind today, which makes beach walking much more pleasant than yesterday afternoon.

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Inland it is still hot and smokey.  All the way from Seattle as we drove yesterday the air was thick with smoke from wild fires burning just east of the mountains.  At least here the air is cleaner.

We are roughing it a bit in the unfinished cabin.  One thing still missing is a replacement for the wood stove, so we are heating with electric heaters, and blowing electrical circuits.   

We've lined up a sports bar for dinner this evening where we will watch the Sounders match in Honduras.  Tomorrow we hope to get some exterior painting done.  This place is not ready for winter.

But there will also be more prowling around, more reading, and more beach walking.  It is a retreat, after all.