They predicted a wet weekend, and since Doug and Brenda are in Arizona, we went golfing on Wednesday and Thursday this week, and James will work Saturday instead.
(He golfs every Tuesday-evening too by the way, with the men's team, so he's getting enough golf in to keep him happy!)

 

I probably should golf a little more too since I'm doing absolutely terrible at the moment. For the life of me, I can't seem to hit a decent ball anymore!

                                    

                                    Putting is about the only thing I'm OK at these days ..

Since I'm only playing nine holes I'd not made it to the back nine yet, but there was a gap between players and we were finally allowed to start from the 10th hole.
To me, the back seemed a little shorter and maybe a tad easier, but I still managed to miss-hit almost every shot, and even loose a few balls in the water and the rough. @!#$^%!

Any-who .. moving on. Afterwards we went to the Wednesday market in town:

They started somewhere in May but we kept forgetting and/or the weather wasn't cooperating, so this was our first time there.
I was pleasantly surprised at how many booths there were for such a small town!

                           

Although I had hoped there was a little bit more of farmer's-food-market theme going on, there was a wide variety of products available, including produce.



And how about this old fire truck which they changed into a real wood-fired pizza oven!

 

'For damsels in distress' :



And also something to de-stress. Hemp oil! It's a thing now in Oregon!
CBD (cannabidiol) products are well on their way to becoming a great alternative to traditional medicines used for a variety of ailments. 
 

                                                 

Derived from the Hemp plant instead of the Marijuana plant, the concentration of CBD is apparently so small in these tinctures that you don't really get high from this oil, but it does have a calming effect and can reduce inflammation and pain.
We'd actually been thinking about putting Merlin on it for the arthritis in his hips, so next time I'll probably buy some.
(And hey, a little sip every now and than might calm my nerves and those 'old-age pains' too!)



After walking around for an hour or so we walked over to the food court, about two blocks down the street from the market.
We'd been wanting to try out these food trucks for a while now too, so this was the perfect day for it!

We tried some Lumpia's at Hunny Beez and one of our favorite dishes at any Mexican restaurant, Chili Rellenos, at Gran Victoria ..

                            

I'd high hopes for the Lumpias since it's a very popular, Indonesian type of spring-roll dish in Holland, but unfortunately these very very disappointing and just your basic crunchy American-chinese spring-rolls.
They were over-cooked on top of that and even the side dishes were rather tasteless.
Oh well, now we know what not to get!

Let's see, what else? My garden is finally starting to grow, now the weather is more consistently on the warmer side (although last week was rather cool).



Look there's my one (yes, hilarious!) broccoli! And a few strawberries: 

 

And my first harvest of (leaf)/spinach/arugula mix and some pretty, colorful rainbow-chard!

I'm so proud! Those lettuces made a nice salad with some very nice bacon wrapped beef tenderloins from the grill and sweet potato fries!
              

And there you have it. Another week done and over with. So far the state of Oregon is fitting us just fine!