Jim and I went to the beach on March 2-4th. We stayed in Newport and also Lincoln City.
We visited this lighthouse. It was in operation for a while until they realized it wasn't sitting out far enough for the ships to see it. A captain and his family of 7 children lived in it for about 25 years.
It is unique because the lighthouse is built into the house. Only 4 were constructed that way and this is the only one standing today.
After the captain moved out, it got into horrible ruins before the Lincoln City Historical Society fixed it up.
The rain water was collected in this cistern and then
pumped into the kitchen. Pretty handy in those days.
A beautiful wood stove, don't know if I would have wanted to cook for 9 on it everyday.
Gorgeous stair rail.
Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite came from this era. As you see in the next picture, ropes held the feather mattress. The ropes had to be tightened regularly so as to hold the mattress and often another child would be sleeping under the bed in a trundle bed, so they really wanted the person on top to "sleep tight".
Newport bridge.
Jim loves to fly his kite. There is a video at the end of this post.
A boat had just brought in some fish to be made into fillets.
If the tide was in, we'd be standing in the ocean right now. But when the tide is out, the tide pools are fun to explore.
Starfish. There's a video of a sea anemone.
We are standing on thousands of mussels.
We had a wonderful relaxing weekend. Great way to march into March.
It never stopped snowing the whole day and 1/2 the night. The next morning, there was snow snow snow.
I love the look of the trees with no leaves.
There was one thing that made me laugh. Jim was parked in the garage. When he was leaving for work, he backed out about 10 feet and high centered his car. Here he is digging it out. Then he went to drive the truck, which was parked outdoors and the door was frozen shut. I had to take my blow dryer and run it along the seal of the door. Finally Jim got to work about an hour and 1/2 late. It was all kind of a pain, but so beautiful. Kevin and I took shovels and lowered the snow, so I could get to work. By the time I got home the neighbor had taken his Bobcat and cleared our whole road, yaaa for Todd.
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