Adventures

Outhouse Camp August 2025

by Vernon Wade | Sep 18, 2025

My brother Andy, my friend Jason, and I all had our birthdays within a week of each other. Obviously, a birthday camping trip was in order. It would take some effort to work out the logistics. Jason is employed at an orthopedic clinic, with weekends off. Weekends are...

Good Afternoon

by Vernon Wade | Sep 9, 2025

Walter accompanied Michael and I into the woods to look for mushrooms. Even though we have had recent rainstorms, it was too dry and we didn't collect many specimens for the amount of ground we covered. We did find a few rubbery chanterelles, a small chicken of the...

WAAAM Fly-In 2025

by Vernon Wade | Sep 6, 2025

My friend Russ Noe suggested I help him ferry people around the air show with our sidecars, so I did. We had a lot of fun, met some great people and saw a bunch of interesting machinery. Here is a photo dump. I may add captions later, when I have more time. ...

A Day In the Woods

by Vernon Wade | Sep 1, 2025

We had been hearing rumors of boletes being found at higher elevations, so Amy loaded Michael, Walter and me into the CrossTrek and we headed north of Trout Lake. ...

Good Afternoon

by Vernon Wade | Aug 29, 2025

8/29/25 85f (29.4c) 3:00 Clear sky with a few mosquitoes. Mike, Walter and I made an excursion into the woods to escape the heat and look for mushrooms. It felt a good ten degrees cooler in the forest. ...

Good Afternoon

by Vernon Wade | Aug 15, 2025

Amy's Uncle Joe and Aunt Judy are visiting from back east. I collected their autographs, then we spent the rest of the day wandering downtown Hood River. ...

Good Afternoon

by Vernon Wade | Aug 11, 2025

8/11/25 3:00 105f (40.5c) Clear sky, no wind in town. I had been cooped up in the house with this cold for eleven days. Walter had been cooped up here with me. We were both going stir crazy. I was feeling better, enough...

Good Evening

by Vernon Wade | Aug 10, 2025

8~9~25 7:30 80f Clear, blue sky with the sunning dropping low in the west, casting golden beams of light through the almost invisible haze of fire season. I painted the back decks yesterday, and soaked the soft spots with Minwax wood hardener. This morning I filled...

Good Afternoon

by Vernon Wade | Aug 5, 2025

8/5/26 2:30 83f (28.3c) , mostly clear with a light breeze. Apparently , I don't have the contagion. Guess I will run some errands before I run out of ooomph. ...