🌊 Celebrating at the Beach 🌊

🌊 We are really enjoying our time at the coast.  I found something I'd been eyeing for a few years, a driftwood hanging.  It looks perfect next to the door in the caravan.  :-)

I think the trailer/caravan is so much cozier with artworks and crocheted blankets and pillows around.  

I might hang it on our gazebo at home for the summer.

We visited a plant nursery to look for sea oats, a nautical grass plant, and I saw this in the shop and snapped it up.

My sister Denise was here on Tuesday and Wednesday and here we are at Kyllo's for lunch before she headed home.  She spent one night in Taft and hung out with us for 2 days.  She's a precious sister.

We've spent a lot of down time in the trailer watching for whale's spouting right out of our picture window.  Our darling little Mocha has fit right in as a beach dog.  This is how she cuddles in and sits with me.  :-)

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Yesterday we had my birthday lunch at Tidal Raves in Depoe Bay with fellow blogger Betsy and her husband Dennis.  We enjoyed the lunch and mostly the chatting.  :-) 

The waiter treated me to a warm cookie, vanilla ice cream, a lit candle and 4 spoons.  :-)  We hugged them goodbye on our way out as they headed home this morning.  

  
After lunch we watched for whales spouting at Depoe Bay, then drove south a bit so I could take a photo of this wonderful concrete totem pole.  I just love this.

It is a native person, I like to think it's a woman, all dressed in native regalia, a blanket with local native motifs, a carved rattle and hat.

It guards the entrance to Little Whale Cove, a gated community.

Then on south on Hwy 101 to see my favorite stone house that sits on a cliff with an amazing view of the Pacific Ocean.. there is a waterfall into the ocean here that I also love to snap a photo of.

It's pretty cool to have a waterfall flowing into the ocean.

Here is Cragganmore, the stone house of my dreams.

Next stop was to pick up a new toaster for the trailer.  I asked Dayle to get a red one.. lol.. and look what he found?  It's called the "Retro Series".  I just love it and it reminds me of a mid-century luxury car, two tone with chrome bumpers.  :-)

The sunset on Wednesday was the best of the week so far.

Such pretty colors in the sky!

Last night's sunset was majorly pale compared to the other one.

I just snapped this of Mocha looking out the window.  LOL!  Another sunny day.  We're heading out soon to find some lunch and see what kind of adventures we can find.  :-)  I've seen 4 or 5 whales spouting and one's back as it rose to the surface right out there!

On a sad note, my friend Sally passed away this morning.  I remember 4 years ago she told me she dearly wanted to visit the beach again.  A bunch of her friends pitched in some $ for her to go on a trip after her retirement from Vista House.  So I booked us a hotel and drove us down and I took her to all my favorite places and she told me stories of how her family came down here often as a child.  She had not been to the beach for 20 years when I brought her here.  I'm so glad we gave her this trip down memory lane.  Click HERE to see our first day and HERE to see our second day adventure with Sally.

If you have a special friend, make sure you see them and tell them you love them.  You never know when you might lose them.  ((hugs)), Teresa :-)