The Oregon Coast & Tillamook Cheese

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Today is our friend Richard Shepherd’s birthday so Happy To You…yesterday was my sister Susan’s birthday…you know she’s older than me but she’s not as old as Bob.  Actually Susan and I are the same age for 7 days and then she has her birthday and gains a year on me. When I called her yesterday to wish her Happy Birthday she informed that their neighbor had killed a rattlesnake in his yard…this is why I don’t stay in Texas in the summer.   OMG, I would die if I had to contend with snakes, especially those that make that funny noise with their tails.

Enough of that nonsense…today was our day off so we had decided we were going head west to the coast and then go north with Tillamook, OR being our destination.  We became acquainted with Tillamook cheese and ice cream a couple of years ago when we went to Alaska.  We don’t get Tillamook in the south…we have to settle for that old Blue Bell ice cream (we stand in Texas when we say that name).  Anyway, we are excited to be in the land of Tillamook ice cream and cheese and Frey Meyer grocery stores.

Let me just say that the temp hovered between 48 and 52 degrees and it only stopped raining for a few minutes at a time today…this is the Oregon I came to see.  Enjoy.

And then there was Tillamook.

I really thought her entire job consisted of cleaning this one area over and over again.

Sometimes it helps if you hold your butt with both hands…sometimes it doesn't.

Sorry for the blurred picture but I was trying to show the block of cheese shooting out of the machine into the plastic bag.

Now we’re getting to the good stuff.

Whadayamean it’s not for me!

Bob said this one was hot…ya think!

She is available for your next cocktail party.

What’s it gonna be big boy?

You mean there is fudge too?

It just doesn’t stop.

Oh my gosh…where’s Bob.

And I thought I had lost him.

Texans are like RVers…you can’t get away from us.

Officer I was just trying to make a left turn.

We’re looking good.

Bob says they don’t have ice cream so why even go in…they have wine!

Moving on.