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A Groundwaters’ Summer

August 3, 2009 on 4:45 pm | In This 'n That | No Comments

The Groundwaters staff has had an extremely busy summer so far. Pat Broome and her husband Dennis have taken several mini-vacations to the Southern Oregon coast and Pat has been active in her positions as Fern Ridge Library Foundation chairman and a board member for ART, Inc.

Jennifer Chambers, her husband Ryan and two sons, Riley and Quinn, camped out at the Oregon Country Fair as they usually do. Jen works in the OCF’s General Store each year. She distributed quite a few copies of Groundwaters. The Chambers family have also taken a couple of mini-vacations.

Jim Burnett and his wife Jonni have decided that their short-lived days of retirement, roaming the U.S. with their 5th-wheel RV home in tow were going to have to come to an end. The price of gas and health issues dictated that they put down roots and be content with occasional vacations, instead. They just purchased a home in the Portland area and he will continue to work with us via email and occasional visits.

It was a long haying season for Jim and me. In fact, Jim is baling the last five acres today… much too late in the season for the hay to be top quality, but with periods of unsettled weather, thunderstorms and hot weather that shut down mowing operations after 1:00 p.m. and equipment breakdowns, it seemed to go on and on and on for us this year. Inspired by Norm Maxwell’s story that he wrote for the April issue of Groundwaters, we made reservations to stay at Crater Lake for two nights this month as a late 45th anniversary celebration. We aren’t going to stay at the lodge. We decided that the cabins were more our style. I made reservations for the boat tour, too, which we’re both looking forward to. Even though I’ve lived in Oregon most of my life, I’ve never been to Crater Lake. It will be a nice break for us. Someday, we’ll get a longer vacation in, but for now, we enjoy sticking close to home. The long ones are fun to do with family.

We’ve begun work on the October “journey” issue. We have a beautiful cover by Alix Mosieur for it and have already received several wonderful submissions, both prose and poetry. I think our readers are going to be pleased…