{"id":3611,"date":"2019-08-13T03:28:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T03:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2019-08-13T03:44:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T03:44:07","slug":"august-11-to-deming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/?p=3611","title":{"rendered":"August 11 To Deming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today is our 40th<\/sup> Wedding\nAnniversary. I am appalled that Peggy has not killed me yet. She has\nshown remarkable restraint because she certainly has had ample reason\nand opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tWe’re pretty old and have done this\nbefore, so we resorted to type and decided to take a spin in our\nmostly-dependable pickup. Deming was our destination. It is a small\ncommunity partway up to the Cascades east of us. Our trip started at\nBirch Bay TT in Blaine and, after exiting the park, we turned toward\nthe mountains. We crossed I-5 and kept going on Birch Bay Lynden Road\nwhich, naturally, runs from Birch Bay on the coast over to Lynden,\nnot on the coast. Turning south in Lynden, we crossed the Nooksack\nRiver but then started zigzagging down rural roads until we got to\nalmost-town of Everson. Near there, we spotted a produce stand on the\nright and pulled into a gravel driveway. There, comfortably seated in\nhis garage door opening, was Ken Thompson and his gorgeous German\nShepherd, Kaiser. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tWe chatted with Ken for some time\nwhile Kaiser was busy showing us how happy he was that we were there.\nHis primary source of entertainment was doghandling a huge rubber\nboat bumper that was bigger than him. Despite having the size\nadvantage, the bumper got its ass kicked. Once he had vanquished the\nbumper, he became interested in a large piece of rope dangling from a\nblock running on a dog run line across the yard. Kaiser played so\nvigorously with this assembly that he had both pulled out the yard\ndeadman and yanked the anchor out of the house in the past. Ken\nquickly fixed him up and Kaiser was again enjoying his trapeze work\nand bumper mauling. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tKen also had gorgeous produce for sale\nso we bought more than we can reasonably devour before it rots, but\nwe’ll try anyway. We left Ken and Kaiser behind and continued south\nand east on skinny rural roads until we finally arrived in Deming,\nwhich is hardly there at all. We did spot some county paramedics\nhuddled around a guy laying down in a pickup truck parked in front of\na convenience store \/ gas station combo but by the time we did the\nambulance chaser’s loop in the truck, the paramedics were on the way\nout of town and no prone bodies were seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tOur wanderings were pretty random on\nthe way to Deming so we followed the same strict, aimless policy on\nthe way home, turning at right angles around massive property\nholdings. Eventually we ended up in Ferndale after crossing back over\nthe Nooksack River. It is a cute little town even though the main\nintersection in Historic Downtown Ferndale is anchored by the famous\nBaker Septic Tank Pumping. There are some gorgeous wood residences\nhere, anyway. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Ferndale we continued our zigzagging but now north and west back toward our current digs at Birch Bay TT. It’s gorgeous country around here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click the link to see some of the pictures we snapped today. Kaiser’s in there. https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/6TcZo2BRvSiv4XkB8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is our 40th Wedding Anniversary. I am appalled that Peggy has not killed me yet. She has shown remarkable restraint because she certainly has had ample reason and opportunity. We’re pretty old and have done this before, so we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}