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1964: after high school life begins. Asked to consider not returning to OSU after the first year. 1966 drafted; grunt, door gunner, HU1 pilot. Out in Dec '70. 1972 married, joined fire dept and bought first house over a 6 month span. 1980 moved family (which now consisted of wife Teri, daughter Amy and son Ryan) to CO. 1990 moved all to bush Alaska to work for the dark side (the FAA). Started Blog to keep family and friends up on our whereabouts. Retired in March 2010. In Feb 2012 sold house in Alaska. By May had bought in Redmond and completed the move. Still nesting in Redmond and loving it!

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Discovered this city has a river through it

I'm I was looking for a place to have a beer by streamside.

While surfing for "Riverside Dining" I found the First St Rapids Park. So I thought I'd check it out.

Nice little streamside house.

Found a great path that follows the river upstream from the north end of First Street, across Olney drive, and up to Mirror Pond Dam (see photos in previous post)


All very scenic but no beer.Just a couple of kayakers and trumpeters, swans that is.
But still no beer so on to the bar at the Riverside Inn. 

That's more like it! The river is a bit smaller down here because it's below the diversion dam that sends a large portion of the river off for irrigation.
Still a good looking trout stream.

Weather is still perfect 68°, a few clouds and no tornadoes forecasted.