On Sunday we saw our oldest grandson receive his Eagle Scout award from BSA and with his dad as the presiding Scoutmaster. Since all three of our sons are Eagles, this now gives us four of them in our family. What a reward this is for the 18 years that Pam & I put into Boy Scout leadership. The award was actually completed some months ago but they held off on the ceremony so that we could come to be part of it. Making it even more special was the fact that Justin asked me to give his "charge to the Eagle" which is a function performed by someone that the boy feels was influential in has success with the program and someone who he looks up to. That made the day even more special.

On Monday we made a trip up to Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park, just a few miles from us here but when we got to the top we found that it was very foggy and so we were unable to see much but we did check out the snow there and a deer chose to come by to have lunch with us! The deer actually came up to within a dozen or so feet of us. With the poor weather there were few people there and we enjoyed the time even though we couldn't see much.

We do hope to get some sunshine while we are here as it would be much more enjoyable. So far it has been drizzley and cloudy nearly all of the time with high temperatures only in the mid 50's.  It makes Texas seem much more attractive, even with some hot weather there!