The Last Couple Cascade Weekends

The last couple weekends have been very interesting. 

Last weekend the Cornerstone Church held its Fall Fest, which was noteworthy on a couple scores--first, no money changed. Kids just ran willy-nilly between the  football toss, fishing, a petting zoo, etc.--sometimes accompanied by their parents, sometimes ignored by them, in all cases everybody seemed to be having a high old time.

I really don't know why the human race is so interested in splat and smash, but we are. All in attendance gathered to watch a large crane pick up a pumpkin no person could lift, hoist into the air and drop it so that smashed and splattered all over the parking lot. We were all riveted!

Less riveting was Saturday morning. I dressed for the weather and headed east into the wind on the bike path, turned south to the Bent Rim to deliver the Cascade Free Press the previous day. Just as I wheeled into the parking lot my phone rang: my Denver brother trying to explain to a way to go about figuring out definitively if I will be flooded now that we are back in the El Nino and getting rain. I am dim--it took him 15 min. plus to explain. While I was pacing the parking lot and listening, I noticed a 4 x 4 running. When I went in the bar, I announced, "Somebody forgot to turn off their..." I didn't forget a man said, "It's got too much gas in it."

"Well, it's polluting the air outside." The woman with him, gave me nosy-old-broad-look and said, "What, you walked here?" 

"No, I rode my bike." Somebody at another table said, "Yeah, she did."

The Halloween Parade was a hoot. The first time I ever saw a night parade was X-mas 2015 in Las Cruces, NM and I am really glad they have become a regular thing here, especially since we can get snow on All Hallows Eve. Not to mention X-mas. It was great fun, bit a demoralizing for me because I did not bring enough copies of the Cascade Free Press, which people should definitely read before they vote. If you can't find one in town, stop by 209 Tyler; I'll give you one.