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I've been throu there before so you are quite a bit north of where I used to live... I was only 4 when I lived in tacoma.. don't remember much except for my dad taking us fishing in pugent sound..He caught an octopus and put it in a can for us to play with!!
Ithink it is getting kinda close to The rose Festival Parade in Portland... All the floats are made with flowers very cool.. You should check it out if Possible and best of all its free!! Some where in portland there is also a beautiful japanese garden open to the public it is amazing... would be a great weekend outing.

The Japanese gardens are near the zoo. I took the kiddos to the zoo when we went to visit Sarah a while back and I am planning on going back to see the gardens once they are in full bloom. Kids loved the zoo too and also want to do the kids museum there.

It is a great Zoo I miss it!! I love the way they put all the animals in a Kinda garden pathway fitting to the area they came from.. I remember the gorilla hated me and everytime I would go by he would start beating on the glass.. Scared the crud out of me.. It is so cold here the zoo is not that great very small almost inhumane..
way down by roseburg there is a wild life safari that you drive through it is pretty cool...

Patty told me about that one too. I am pretty sure we have been there but it has been years and none of the wee ones have seen that. So that is on our list of things to do as well.

Hmm what else... the sea Lyon caves...
Kahneeta warm springs really cool to see the Indian dances and ceremonies have a few uncles there , layman Hot springs,omsi,Ohh white water rafting on the deschuttes River one of my favorites!! Great family fun at least for the older of kids.. I used to live right near there in a super small town called maupin.. used to raft all summer long!! oh there is also a ghost town called sp? Shanico which is really cool..Ohh and don't forget to climb to the top of sp? multnoma falls or at least to the second bridge..

WOW, that is awesome!

it is a little east of portland!! by cascade locks.. oh they have a fish hatchery close to there too where kids can feed the fish. Helps with the cost of maintenance..

That is not too far at all.

By the way how is your gardening going? I just got the rest of my yard cleaned out... the tulips and daf's are starting to bloom here..I noticed some of my lilies starting to peak out as well

Going slow. The seeds I spread a couple weeks ago are sprouting. I just cannot find the paper where I put exactly what seeds went where. I am sure it is on my desk somewhere. I have another section of the garden cleared out so that is good and I can lay seeds there now too once I find that paper. Next step is to clear the place where the stones will go to get to the water spout so I do not have to walk over plants to get to it.

Sounds Great!! I am still trying to get all the acorns out of my grass!! I raked 2 big bags of pine needles out on Sunday, Stopped by home depot and it must be spring cause I found a bunch of petunia's that I plan on putting in tomorrow.. I just noticed my morning glory's,moonflower and marigolds have sprouted,so pretty soon I am really going to have some work to do!! Oh and I dug a new area in my front yard where nothing but dirt seems to grow (the only corner that gets full sun) and Planted.. 3 hybiscus,3 Russian sage,3 day lily's,orange glory flowers and some madden pinks I hope it turns out well!! I also planted 2 purple hydrangias by my front entry way..I think that is all.. It was fun though!!

Sounds nice. I am going to go get a few plants from the nursery this week to give my area some color while I wait for other stuff to grow. But mostly I like doing from seed. SO much fun and so rewarding to do it from scratch so to speak.

I am OK at seeds as long as I start them in the house.My house started out like yours!!! NOTHING at all except for a couple scrubby shrubs most of which I pulled out. oh and that lily of the valley I removed it cause it was intruding into the grass!

It is fun starting from scratch though. So much potential!

It is a lot of fun! also a lot of work! I will keep pluckin away little by little,pretty soon I will have the garden of my dreams!! At least you had grass when you moved I had the incredible dust bowl LOL !!

Well this may not yet be the garden of my dreams, since we are just renting but I am certainly not going to let it continue to look so bland and ugly! I do love having the grass so the kids can play!

I love the picture of the weeping tree what is it?
I think we finally have the grass estblished here which is good now that the littles are big enough to play out side!

It is a weeping birch. It is now leafing out. Looks so pretty!

Really is pretty!! looks great even with no leaves.. I want to get a harry lauders walking stick.. seen them on ebay for approx 20 bucks including shipping but a little scared to buy living things from there!!
I have too many trees in my small little yard 8 pine and 5 oak so something small would be great!

That is a very pretty tree Triss!!

Hi weezie do you know if anyone has had luck on ebay?
I have gotten a lot of things never flowers and such!

Bill has a beautiful walking stick tree. I want one bad. They are way cool!

I haven't, only know one person here, that does it, but it's not with plants..
Garage sale stuff..

But Mary Reboakely sells stuff, maybe if she passed thru..

But there should be some here that do it...
***I think there was a post about ebay awhile back, not sure where it is, but if you do a GOOGLE search at the top or a forum search..
might fine tune it down for you to find it...

Or start a post on it, and ask, that may be your best bet....

Thanks A bunch!! I will do that!