Yes....that's what it sez!
I am checking with my dad to see if he is aware of a connection to the Haycraft family with Coeur d'Alene.......but there it is!
We made a very leisurely departure from Hayden Lake and the Wogsland's hospitality this morning, it was hard, but we persevered. 9:00 became 11:00 and Jim and Marlene finally had the kids out of their hair and their house back to themselves.....speaking for myself, I was reluctant to leave...I have grown VERY attached to these two....
We couldn't resist a return to the Snakepit for lunch...it was so good the first time! We each had the same thing we had before...and managed to save room for the complimentary huckleberry ice cream!!!!
We had planned to go north to Sandpoint and around Pend Oreille and south to Bozeman, via Plains, MT, but it was pretty cool so we opted to travel back south on I90 towards Missoula.
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| For your coffee, veggie and cement art needs.... |
We stopped at a little road side coffee stand/vegetable stand/cement art stand, to warm up and get some extra clothes on, and grab some hot cappuccinos. The couple that owns this place are in a very heated battle with the enterprise across the freeway "50,000 Silver $"
who are doing everything they can to put them out of business, even though they are family, their grandkids are best friends, and they had agreed many years ago never to try to do what the other is doing: If you're a casino, I'll sell coffee. I won't sell coffee, if you don't sell fireworks. etc.
All hell has broken loose and the big guy is trying to kill the little guy and the little yellow
shack is having a hard time....
Support your local coffee/veggie/cement art stand!!!! Or the big, cheesy, tacky, casino wins!
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| Cement Art |
While warming up with cappuccino and zipping into our extra layers, I got a message from my long lost step sister, Jo. We have been playing communication tag, and we had hoped to connect with them this trip and were afraid we were going to miss them. It was perfect timing, as the warm- up spot we had chosen to pull off the freeway was the turn off to head to Plains, where Jo and her family live. They had been to their place in Glacier for the last few days and we just kept missing each other. We drove to Plains, got some directions, and were soon pulling up to their house and Jo was out to greet us like we had just seen each other last week...not 30 years ago! They have a classic red painted log house in Plains, where they were both teachers, and they have lived there with their 3 kids, and are now newly retired. Of course, those kids are now all adults...and moving on to college and grad school, etc. I am sorry to say that due to inexplicable circumstances we have never met Jo's husband, Les, of 28 years, let alone her children. But we are making up for that now! We spent an extremely enjoyable evening sitting at her kitchen table, after a great dinner of burgers and produce from the garden, looking at pictures and getting each other caught up to date with how our respective families are doing. (David and Les and middle son Kenny, went to watch football while Jo and I lingered over tea and photos and stories).
They set us up in the camper to sleep and we had a very cozy night...interrupted only by the occasional train, (I love trains!) dog chorus, and visits from a skunk that we heard, and smelled, snuffling under the camper...it was cool and perfect for a camp out....glad we were in the camper 8 feet off the ground though....far from mister skunk!
I last saw Jo when she was 24 and I was 20.....everything is different, 30 years later, and everything is the same. She is the same lovely, kind, generous, person I remember as a big sister....and now it is great to reconnect as friends. Again we have been shown the most amazing hospitality and generosity....we are so blessed and amazed by it.
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| Les and Jo Carpenter, David and I |
Lesson #28: In the face of overwhelming generosity, it is best to just give in.
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