{"id":209,"date":"2012-08-31T20:51:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T04:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2012-08-31T20:58:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T04:58:02","slug":"staycation-through-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Staycation through Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

This goes through Thursday. IF you just want to see the photos, click here<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunday Cindy and I went out to Harding Lake and in my true form in getting anywhere, I got lost. <\/p>\n

Fortunately texting still works that far out and I was able to call in for backup:
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Once we got there we pointed out how difficult it was to follow the map:
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But I made some corrections to it:
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We had a great time, enjoyed good company, I drank two big solo cups of wine before dinner and then had a most awesome dinner followed by delicious dessert. Pictures continue here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Monday was a sick day at home. Also cold and rainy. <\/p>\n

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Tuesday we planned to go the Large Animal Research Station (LARS)<\/a> but we got a late start and by the time we got to lunch we would not have been able to make the 2pm tour, so we changed our plans. <\/p>\n

We had lunch at Basecamp Eatery. I really like their bread bowl with clam chowder.
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We went to Country Kitchen (local specialty cooking store) and got some new stuff from there including the much coveted home-made whip cream thing!
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Pictures of it in use come later, but for now here is something similar to the cheese grater that I was telling Caroline about on Sunday when she was making the alfredo sauce for us (and this theme comes back):
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Obligatory stop at Value Village. <\/p>\n

Finally got to the Morris Thompson Cultural Center.
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Major failed dinner at Gallo: we got our drinks FAST, but we were made to wait for more than 15 minutes to order at 5pm so we just got an appetizer and left. <\/p>\n

Stopped into Safeway for Staycation Supplies:
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Went home. More pictures here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wednesday we cleaned the gutters. Boy do we know how to play hard or what? But we did remove the impromptu garden that was trying to grown in the gutters:
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Thursday I had to work for a few hours, but once I got home in the afternoon we headed out to Murphy Dome for the first time since moving here. From what I had heard from other locals I thought it would be a drive up and we would be shown meadows full of blueberries, almost envisioning something like you would see in “The Sound of Music.” I came prepared with lots of containers to harvest berries, even though I have not been ever been blueberry picking and the last time I picked any berries I was 12 picking strawberries on a farm, not in the wilderness. But we bought ourselves a berry identification book, as well as a mushroom guide at Morris Thompson just the day before so I was ready for a grand field of berries. <\/p>\n

This was not the case. I drove 13 miles up Murphy Dome Road not seeing anything looking like what I imagined and ending up on a gravel road. The view was stunning though:
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Got onto Old Murphy Dome Road:
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Finally found a pull out that lead to an utility path. We found mostly mushrooms, but were not positive about their id so we just took photos:
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Then I found a berry!
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And a blueberry!
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The berries seemed too scarce to bother with picking, so we walked around, checked out the field and took pictures of all the things growing there. There were also a few bigger birds that might have been woodpeckers, but I’m really not sure. Should have taken the birding book with us I guess! <\/p>\n

More photos here <\/a><\/p>\n

Went home and made an AWESOME dinner. I made homemade Alfredo sauce for the first time ever and it was fabulous:
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WHY HAVE I BEEN EATEN CRAP OUT OF A JAR? <- plus the jar Alfredo sauce that I like has egg in it! Apparently I am allergic to eggs. \n\nAnd Michael cooked some chicken on the grill that we got from Homegrown (they sell locally raised, organic, free-range happy-until-butchering-time meats):\n<\/p>\n

Couple hours later we had ice cream with home-made whip cream and organic mint chocolate sauce. Delicious!
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