[Vwdiesel] What a great weekend!

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

  Just got back from a LONG weekend at the beach.  Fri to Tues.  :-)
Weather was GREAT until about 10:30 PM on the 4th when a heavy 
mist settled in briefly and broke up the fireworks a bit early.  :-(
  I'm going to have to work it out with the wife to somehow have dieselfest 
on July 4th.  There are just so many things going on so that NOBODY 
could get bored around that holiday.  This was Tahola's celebration of 
the 150th anniversay of the signing of their treaty so they REALLY had 
the fireworks this year.  It's hard to decide to go there, down to the 
beach where we usually do and so on.  
  We got the under-floor plumbing done on the "shed" and a couple 
electrical boxes nailed and wire dragged to.  Other than cutting 3 1/2"
(8.75cm) off the bottom of the living room entry door we didn't get much 
else done on the place.  Yeah, you might say the building's sagged a tad.

  The fireworks were something else!  A couple years ago I estimated 
$1.5 million were visible from the Anadyne gap beach access.  I figured
this year was likely to be $2 million!  The rain cut that a little short 
possibly.  IT WAS IMPRESSIVE!  You never knew which way to look!
Someone toward the hill/grass/cliff had a couple thousand $$ worth 
they were setting off.  There were large ones at PB proper, Moclips, 
Copalis, along the stretch of Ocean Shores, up on the reservation and 
the bigger ones over the hill from Tahola!    Probably the most impressive 
year yet.  We quit trying to set any of ours off because even the better 
ones were rather pathetic by comparrison!
  I found out which "vendor" has the best Indian fry bread and Indian 
tacos as well.  They had boxing, (men and women) games, hot rod outboard 
canoe races (we missed those AGAIN!) and that's just a bit of what Tahola 
had to offer.  
  I'm hoping to put together a dieselfest gathering later this month or else 
in early to mid August.  If there's interest I'll see what I can muster up 
in September here in Cashmere and include some orchard and packing 
shed touring as well as (of course) an "impromptu" diesel parade down 
main street.  :-)
  Dad just dropped in to say that even with me driving over half the way, 
the Passat got close to 54mpg this trip.  :-)
  Spotted very few VW diesels the whole weekend.  One Jetta TDI and 
a nice looking early Rabbit on a car lot that could've been diesel due 
to the good condition of it.  (Seems mostly the diesels were kept in good 
condition.)
     Loren