We’re back in Coos Bay again, enjoying the early Summer in one of our favorite coastal places.
Actually, we’re in the Coos Bay suburb of Charleston, at the Oceanside RV Resort. We like it here: nice beach within a few hundred yards, a great site which shelters us from the wind, and only a few miles to some nice restaurants.
There are a few other Bostons here. We had a party one day at the rig.
Here’s Jay Jay rinsing off some of the rocks along the beach.
Did someone say “Food”?
Our good friends, the Quinns (Dan and Peggy) are staying here, right next to us, for a couple of weeks. They love our dogs (they used to have two Bostons: Cliff and Biff), so we share ours with them. Booger gets to do “sleepovers” with Peggy in the Quinn’s rig. Here’s Booger hanging out with them.
Dan and Peggy are full-time RV’ers, previously from the Saginaw, Michigan area. They have a huge 5th wheel trailer, towed by a big diesel truck; it’s very nice, with plenty of room and goodies for two.
Dan’s a fun guy who drinks a lot of beer (he calls it “Holy Water”) and likes his toys.
Here’s Dan’s look-alike:
Here’s the real Dan:
We had a nice meal at the High Tide, a local eatery. Here’s a selfie of our foursome:
Yesterday was Fathers’ Day, and Dan showed off his expensive Chinese-made drone, flying it over the park and the beach. It was really cool. In fact, since it was Fathers’ Day, Charlie decided to order me one. What a lucky guy I am!
Peggy is a very nice lady, and a welcome relief for Charlie, who has to put up with a guy and three dogs for months at a time. She needs “girl time”, and is really enjoying her visit with Peggy here in Coos Bay. I think they plan to go into town today on some important mission.
We’ve been eating good lately. Dan is a devotee of cooking with his Big Green Egg BBQ rig…
… and we’ve already enjoyed Pizza and ribeye steaks, with some baby back ribs scheduled for another day. I am going to slow-cook some chile verde for tonight’s dinner, to be served with tortillas and all the fixin’s.
We go out to eat regularly here in Charleston. We’ve been to the Fisherman’s Grotto and the High Tide Cafe twice each so far (two weeks into our month-long stay). Both of them have very good seafood as you might expect. We’ve also been to a Chinese restaurant (in Coos Bay) twice; they have a big menu with real good food. We’ll also hit some bars: Peggy and Dan like them.
One of our favorite places in Coos Bay is the Hospice Thrift Shop. It is large, with lots of clothes, and it smells nice, not like a Goodwill. (It reminds me of the Assistance League shop in Temecula, near our home. Charlie was President of the League when they purchased their 24,000 s.f. building. Locals call it the “Nordstrom of thrift shops”.) We bought a bunch of nice clothes there last week for $23, and Peggy also dropped by on another day to uncover a few treasures. Good merchandise and a good cause…hard to beat!
Recreational marijuana is legal now in Oregon. The four of us dropped by the local dispensary at Charleston harbor to check out the goods. Some of the products looked interesting, like the high grade Pussy Poo and some of the Jim Belushi Estate Brand goodies.
I ended up buying some cannabis tincture. It is an oil, to be taken orally, which is supposed to help ease arthritic pain, etc. It doesn’t contain any THC, which is the chemical in marijuana that gets one “high”. I’ve been taking a few drops each day for the past few days to see if it will help my aches and pains (hands, knees, hips) as a substitute for my Norco (prescription narcotic pill). The jury is still out on the effectiveness of this remedy; it could be just another hocus-pocus homeopathic placebo. I hope not, because it cost $60.
(Speaking of hocus-pocus stuff, I overheard some lady in an Oregon market sniggling about how “California is going to be divided in three”, hee hee. I think that lady has been smoking too much ganga. Every non-Californian likes to make fun of the world’s tenth largest economy. Go figure.
Yes, some billionaire guy has put a proposition on the November ballot to do that very thing, but anyone with money can get a prop on the ballot in California; passing it is another thing. Plus, the United States government would have to then add a couple of more states to the Union…which is not going to happen…no way. This is because California is severely underrepresented in the U.S. Senate (two senators for 36 million people, while 20 other states, with a total population of under 36 million, have a total of 40 senators). There is no way in Hell that those dinky, mostly-Republican states are going to give up the political power that they unfairly hold over the more populous, mostly Democratic states. So, the 3-state idea is a non-starter from the partisan political perspective.
Also, in California, the big issue that makes separation into three states a nightmare is water; most of it comes from Northern California, yet most of the thirsty mouths are in Southern California. It would take 50 years of litigation to straighten out the water issue. Armeggeddon will probably happen before then.
Other than these two insurmountable issues, the idea probably makes sense. Maybe I’ll vote for it just to see what happens…kind of like the fools who voted for you-know-who.)
(Speaking of that idiot, he has taken his nationalistic shtick to a new level this year by separating children from illegal immigrants, as sort of a cruel, inhumane on-the-spot penalty to people who are attempting to flee poverty, discrimination, crime and mistreatment. It brings back memories of the Pilgrims…
Trump’s snake oil scam is that all of these asylum seekers are MS-13 gang members, planning to rape, pillage, and murder their way across the Bible Belt. In fact, there is no evidence to that falsehood; in fact, statistics show that immigrants are responsible for less crime than native citizenry. But, that isn’t the fake story that Trump campaigned on, so his Administration’s immoral actions at the border are actually a heinous publicity stunt aimed at sucking up to his base political supporters, who seem to forget that all of us (white folks, too) are immigrants, or progeny of immigrants, and helped create a pretty nice country.
One can tell that Trump and his minions are struggling mightily to rationalize their shameful behavior when the Attorney General blames the Democrats for this problem…
…and then doubles down with a quote from the Bible to justify tearing children away from parents.
I’m not a religious expert by any means, but I do recall God telling Moses in Deuteronomy 10:18-19 that He “doth loveth the stranger” and that the Israelites should “love ye therefore the strangers, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt”. I can also remember, as a child in Sunday school, joyfully singing the verses,
“Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow, black and white
They are precious in His sight”
Of course, just about any human behavior, good or bad, can be justified by a Biblical verse. Slavery and misogyny are blessed, as is smiting strangers and stealing property (i.e. the Promised Land). This is probably why we’ve heard not a PEEP from those pious, Bible Belt, “born again” phonies and their scumbag pastors. They have weaponized the Bible, using selected passages to justify their racism.
Amen, Brother Donald!
I made Chile Verde last night for dinner. Tonight we are supposed to have fish and chips at a place called The Boat down in the Coos Bay harbor. Then, tomorrow, Dan Quinn is going to treat us with some Baby Back Ribs, cooked to perfection on his Big Green Egg. Yummy!
Our home in Murrieta is still for sale, while our proposed Mesquite house is under construction (we hope!). It’s 105 degrees in both locations right now; that’s why we vacation on the Oregon coast. Hopefully, son Tim (the realtor) will find one rich sucker soon to buy our Bear Creek digs.
Today, or tomorrow, I am expecting to get my Chinese-made drone in the mail. It’s a good thing I bought it now because our stupid Dipshit-in-Chief just doubled-down on his suicidal tariff war with China. The best thing that can happen out of this is that just about every consumer good that we all enjoy will cost more in the future. The potential bad news is that Trump’s stupid actions will hasten a military conflict.
The news that will not happen, for sure, is that our country will WIN such a trade war. The Chinese have the leverage and a long-range strategy, we don’t.
I’m rambling again, so I think I should just take the dogs to the beach and shut up.
Bye.
(Not so fast, Buddy! There’s good news of sorts: President Trump got shamed into reversing his punitive “child separation” policy with regard to illegal immigrants.
National outrage by parents, former First Ladies, the Pope, and even a few Republicans caused the Prez to reverse his Administration’s cruel tactic (i.e. the thing he blamed Democrats for). For now, it appears, those malevolent immigrants will be kept in dungeons together. Thank you, Jesus!
Dumbell Trump has never learned the “Law of Holes”: if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
By the way, that Trump family just can’t seem to get out of its own way, unnecessarily tripping over themselves and creating bad press. First Lady Melania Trump made a humanitarian gesture by flying down to Florida to see what the child separation hubbub was all about. However, she spoiled it by donning a coat that sent the opposite message out to the world.
No shit.
Of course, it could also be a message from Trump headquarters to its racist political followers that, “We might have lost this one, but we’ll win the war…’cause we really hate those Mexicans.”
