On Saturday, Carl and I went up to the Columbia Sportswear Employee Store in Beaverton. I scored a new snowboarding jacket while Carl took care of most of his Christmas shopping. On the way up, the speedometer on the XS850 decided to break (sheared cable). Coming back down, the tachometer went crazy and snapped off its own needle. Something in the middle drive and possibly the starter assembly also started making a bunch of noise. There’s always something new and interesting to fix on old motorcycles!
Emily and Brandon’s Wedding
Emily and Brandon got married over the weekend. It was an awesome wedding! Here are a few pictures I took before and after the wedding. Since I was a bridesmaid, I wasn’t able to get photos of the actual ceremony. These first few pictures are of us setting up the altar. We used a Unimog to tie ribbons up in the trees.
Making the flowers for the wedding. I was assigned to help with the bride’s bouquet and do the altar flowers.
The Unimog.
The bride’s bouquet.
Setting up tables and having lunch. Or was this dinner?
The property owner has an awesome Utilikilt.
Driving around in a Haflinger with Brandon.
Our entry to the river using the Haflinger.
At the reception. Heather relaxing in the grass.
Betsy in the foreground and the wedding party behind.
The Covered Bridges of Upper Linn County
Today Carl and I made a review of five covered bridges in north Linn county and one just over the county line in Marion County. Although that bridge used to sit in Linn county. Therefore it counts too. The bridges we visited are Hoffman Covered Bridge, Gilkey Covered Bridge, Shimanek Covered Bridge, Stayton-Jordan Covered Bridge, Hannah Covered Bridge, and Larwood Covered Bridge. One note for people making this same circuit.. some maps show Lulay Road between Jordan and Lacomb as going through and being paved. There are forest gates on the road about three miles along the road when coming from the Jordan direction. The pavement also runs out at the gates. We had to detour around to get between the Hannah and Larwood bridges. It wasn’t a bad detour but it was a bit annoying to have to backtrack after finding a locked gate.
Partway through the ride we ran into this wonderful sign. It reads “STOP. HAMMER TIME.” Some clever fellow made a stencil and painted up the sign for general amusement. For those interested, this sign (on both sides of the road, no less) is at the rail road crossing on Robinson Drive just west of Scio, Oregon.
