These are the lazy, hazy, crazy days of Summer. Looking for some exercise and something to do, Carol asked me if I wanted to go with her for a walk. Turns out, she was a-hankerin' for some Corn Dogs and so she thought she'd walk on over to the Safeway and grab a couple out of the freezer section. But, honestly, those are good but (and this, like my derriere, is one great, big, humongous but) they are not great.
To get great Corn Dogs, you have to travel on over to Otis and get some Pronto Pups™. Now, that's some good eating. So with a little gentle persuasion, I got her to go with me to Pronto Pups™ for some of that aforementioned good eating.
This outfit is a laid back, low maintenance kind of operation. No uniforms, no credit cards, no frills. Just good food since 1946.
Fun Facts: The Pronto Pup Company is based in Portland.
The Pronto Pup was invented by the husband and wife team of George and Versa Boynton in the late '30s in Rockaway Beach, Oregon.
The Boyingtons ran a small hot dog stand on the beach, selling the dogs to tourists and locals alike. When the rain came and ruined the buns, making them soggy and inedible, George came up with the idea of cooking' a 'bun' as needed. He created a pancake batter based mix and the duo came up with the formula used today.
One More Fun Fact: Pronto Pups are made with a pancake batter based mix. Don't confuse them with corn dogs, which are coated in a batter made with corn flour.
Hahahaha, I love this!! I found this picture on the Net. It's a sign posted at the Pronto Pup in Portland.
You can get an idea of just how laid back this operation is by looking at their kitchen. Modern air conditioning provided by the floor fan. Some great flowered vinyl covering the shelves and a couple of refrigerators. There's the cook, hard at work, in the back. You can just see his head if you follow the vent downward. The girl working the counter was carrying food to a table.
Low key and tasty.
Here's the Happy Girl. We decided to eat al fresco today. It were hot today and I wanted to catch a breeze!! You'll hear more about that later. Hahaha, I just realized, one clue you can always use to tell if it's hot where we're at is if Carol is in a picture without her jacket on. That sucker only comes off when it is way hot.
Hmmmm, always with the rules!!
Why can't The Man just leave us alone, Brah!!
I like that they have to tell us that 'employees not allowed to pet.' Like we're suppose to keep them from petting the dogs. Or, could it refer to something else? Just what are these employees up to during their breaks, Hmmmmm??
Who's a bad employee!! No!! No petting!!
Remember, this all started with a certain someone's desire for some Pronto Pups. Then, when the rubber met the road, what did that certain someone go for?
Hahahaha, you're right!!!
Fish 'N Chips.
So. Pre. Dic. Ta. Bull.
She's predictable, but she does some nice shots. Like this cell phone picture of a daisy. Nice composition.
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So we enjoyed the lunch...and the sights. This is the bait shop across the street from the Pronto Pup. It's an eye-catcher.
Tres bleu, n'est-ce pas!!
Afterwards, we went for a drive up Hwy 18 looking for some photo opportunities. Did I mention it was H.O.T. today? It was.
Hahaha, it is the hottest I've been in....months? Years? It's been a long, long time. And, y'know, I still don't like it.
So I wasn't all too hot (hahahaha, get it!?!) about being out walking around today. Still, Brave Trooper that I am, we did stop at a small park, H.B. Van Duzer State Park, along Hwy 18. Hahaha, we had a reason.
As we drove by the park, Carol spotted a wasp's nest so we turned around and parked the Mini. Then we walked up the highway to get a better look at the nest. Just not too close.
Thank goodness for zoom lenses.
And, there it is. A nest of Yellow Jackets.
Fun Fact: These nests are made from chewed wood and that gives them their distinctive papery walls.
You can truly begin to appreciate how fast a car is traveling when you're standing alongside the road. Especially those big trucks.
So we left the highway and walked about the park for just a short while. Long enough for us to see some of the sights and for me to get this picture of a tree mushroom
While Carol got this picture of these two, different species of trees, grown together.
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And, while Carol was shooting large and tall, I was shooting short and small.
And then I took a back road across the mountain just to have a different way to get home.
And when we got back to LCO, I had the bright idea to stop at the DQ and get a cone.
OK, so it's 1450 on a Thursday afternoon. No reason for the DQ to be swamped, is there? Yet there are cars stacked up in the drive-thru line.
You wouldn't think it would be uber busy right now, would you.
Wrong!! The whole thing was a zoo. I stayed in the car while Carol went in for her cone. This is what it looked like inside. What should have been a five-minute operation, at most, became a 20+ minute cluster. And the traffic into the restaurant never let up!!
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Hahaha, that was an eye-opener. Note to self, no more DQ near a weekend during the Summer, never again.
Ri-donk-cu-lous!!
Disregarding the DQ Dilemma, it'd been a pleasant day, albeit, a tad too warm for me. We had a chance to relax and then we had a nice whole wheat spaghetti and turkey meatball dinner.
The afternoon rolled on into the evening and, then, after The Big Bang Theory, we thought we'd go for a walk along the beach and say good-bye to this day. The winds were up and the beach was cool. So cool, I had a sweatshirt and a jacket on.
And I'm always on the look-out for another shot. Especially back-lit shots of flowers
And we weren't the only ones. My gosh!! Our beach has way too many other people on it.
And look at the work the kids are doing there where the stream/creek/rill/rivulet (I never know what to call that small flow of water) runs down onto the beach. See the difference even a small bit of rain makes in the size of the standing water on the beach?
Meanwhile some enterprising and hard-working youngsters have been busy constructing dams.
But we were there for a different reason. Besides, my dam building days are loooong past.
Nope, we were there to say adios to the sun and.
And he was going out in style.
See what I mean about all these people on our beach? Craziness!!
And then, at 2042, I turned around to the east and saw this guy...
Sun down over to the west and...
...right at the same time, bad moon rising in the east.
And still people were all over our beach.
Grrrrrr....
Just one day away from a Blue Moon.
Good-bye, Thursday, July 30, 2015...
And hello, Mr. Moon.
It won't happen until tomorrow, but let's talk about it tonight, 'Kay?
Fun Facts: What is a Blue Moon? The phrase 'blue moon' usually refers to a rare second full moon in a month. This kind of moon appears only once every three years.
A Blue Moon isn't actually blue. The moon observed high in the sky is almost always white. This is because the path of white light goes through the fewest amounts of atmospheric particles that could color it.
Have you ever heard of the term, "Once in a blue moon'? Well, 'Blue moon' appears to have been a colloquial expression long before it developed its calendrical senses. Today, the expression refers to an unlikely or rare occurrence. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first reference to a blue moon comes from a proverb recorded in the year, 1528: If they say the moon is blue, We must believe that it is true.
Haha, those crazy guys back then!!
It's a nice preview to what we'll get to see tomorrow. And, if I don't miss my guess, I'll be out and about taking pictures of the Blue Moon tomorrow.
Cuz that's the way I roll.
So it was a good day. I ate healthy and we got out for some mini-adventures and then we got to say adios to the day while walking on the beach.
The easy, simple things color a life. I guess it's all in the way you approach things.
I'm gonna try to take life more like Pronto Pup does....laid back, simple, easy and tasty.
And, with all of that, I know that life is good.
Hooah!!
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