Where did the Winter Go?

This post was written by Colleen Easley

Can you believe it’s the 1st of June already?

My winter came and went pretty much as usual.  Went up to Alaska in March to volunteer for the Iditarod again.  I’ve been doing that since 1995.  We’ve been continuing with the Friday homeschool program for three of our grand children.  They have learned a lot and have produced a couple videos for YouTube about current events.  You can check them out at YouTube.com.  We’ve also taught the kids to swim pretty well on Friday nights at the YMCA pool.

This spring we took a couple fun road trips with the grand kids.  First we went on a loop from Olympia, WA south to Vancouver, WA and then west to the Oregon coast to fly kites and wade in the ocean surf.  We spent the second night at Astoria, OR and toured the Lewis and Clark exhibits at Fort Clatsop National Park.  Last weekend we took a loop north to Steven’s Pass, Hwy 2 and east over the Cascade Mountains to Leavenworth and then south to Yakima and over Highway 410, Chinook Pass to return to western Washington.  The weather was beautiful as was the scenery.  We fit in a couple short hikes and lots of swimming time in the outdoor pool at our Leavenworth Hotel.  Temperatures climbed to 92 degrees in eastern Washington.

This week I’m leaving for my 16th summer as a tour guide in Alaska.  I was packing up my stuff today and came across something one of my tour members had shared with me last year.  It defines success based on age.  Hope you’ll enjoy it!  It sure gave me a chuckle!

Success is. . .

At age 4 success is not peeing in your pants.

At age 12 success is having friends.

At age 16 success is having a driver’s license.

At age 25 success is having sex when married.

At age 35 success is having money.

At age 50 success is having money.

At age 60 success is having sex when married.

At age 70 success is having a driver’s license.

At age 75 success is having friends.

At age 80 success is not peeing in your pants.

And so it is that life goes full circle!

I doubt I’ll find time during the tour season in Alaska to write any blog posts, but if anything really exciting happens, I’ll do my best!

Here are some pictures of our two oldest grand children enjoying our last road trip over the mountains to Leavenworth.