Today we took a spin about 40 miles\nnorthwest to Coos Bay so we could visit my sister-in-law who lives in\na nifty house that looks like a pretty little barn and has a fabulous\nview of the bay. I was delighted to not only see Katie but also to\nsee her great animals, Robin the dog and Zeus the cat. The three of\nthem are some of my favorite associates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tWe hobnobbed for a couple hours with\nKatie, maintaining a keen eye on her pets who engage in delightful\nantics when we are not petting them. Robin is a Lab and Zeus is a\nMaine Coon who weighs only 18 pounds. They are both gorgeous and\nremarkably well-behaved although Robin, in a fit of fun, broke\nKatie’s leg a couple years ago and she still limps a bit. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tWe soon became ravenous so we all\npiled into the pickup and headed down to 7 Devils Brewery for lunch\nand some nice porter. They serve pretty good albacore and fries\nalthough it came with arugula salad which I think tastes like bitter\npaint. They also serve the Canadian heart-plug, poutine, which I\nordered for the table. Poutine is French fries covered with garlic\ncheese curds and gravy. It may sound bad but tastes good and there\nwasn’t a speck left on the plate when we left. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tAfter finishing our conversations and\npet wrestling, Peggy and I departed but only traveled about 10 miles\nsouth before pulling off and parking outside the Coos Bay Speedway, a\n3\/8 mile dirt track. Tonight the events were stock car races with\nmany classes being represented. There were tiny old Japanese and\nAmerican coupes with four cylinder engines that sound like pissed off\nkazoos when running at full tilt. There were late model sportsmen and\nmodified classes with large V-8 engines that make a terrific noise\nand crash regularly. One of them flipped over at least twice before\ncoming to rest on its top. The driver came out with a big grin and no\ninjuries. Track management was giving away bicycles to kids this\nevening so there were hundreds of munchkins seemingly going in all\ndirections in the spectator areas. They had a jet dragster that blew\na lot of smoke, deafened many with afterburner use and then screamed\ndown the adjacent drag strip while all the spectators watched with\ntheir fingers in their ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tAt about 10:00 PM, they ran the last\nV-8 race before wheeling the dragster out to the center of the track\nwhere an old car was chained to the noisy, hot end of the dragster\nbefore being incinerated by the jet exhaust. A fine night. We headed\nback to the Remote Outpost after all this fun. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today we took a spin about 40 miles northwest to Coos Bay so we could visit my sister-in-law who lives in a nifty house that looks like a pretty little barn and has a fabulous view of the bay. I … Continue reading