{"id":3855,"date":"2014-04-30T21:56:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2014-04-30T22:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T22:00:48","slug":"april-23rd-through-april-28th-2014-final-days-at-bowl-and-pitcher-spokane-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?p=3855","title":{"rendered":"April 23rd through April 28th, 2014     Final Days at Bowl and Pitcher, Spokane WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winding down of our first work camp position of our 2014 year has begun. Being planted next to the peaceful Spokane River was a treasured pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Our-site-at-Bowl-and-Pitcher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Our site at Bowl and Pitcher\" alt=\"Our site at Bowl and Pitcher\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Our-site-at-Bowl-and-Pitcher_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bit frosty at the onset of our stay but warmed up to brilliant Cornflower mornings full of distant haunting raptor chirrups and echoing woodpecker rat-a-tat-tats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cornflowers-cropping-up-all-over.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"cornflowers cropping up all over\" alt=\"cornflowers cropping up all over\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cornflowers-cropping-up-all-over_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Busy-Bee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Busy Bee\" alt=\"Busy Bee\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Busy-Bee_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every campsite was filled this weekend, even the overflow. Said goodbye to Ellen, the upstairs maid, (John and I are the downstairs maids) as she left for another work camp position. Thoroughly enjoyable stay but if we ever return, it will be early in the year. The closer to summer months are greatly congested with noisy smoky-fire-building campers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ellen-John-Becky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Ellen, John, Becky,\" alt=\"Ellen, John, Becky,\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ellen-John-Becky_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bubble recipe from my niece posted on Facebook provided us with ample reason to turn a few hours into a play time and we blew happy rainbow orbs out across the river. They exploded midair leaving Spiderman webs trailing along the breeze.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Experimenting-with-new-bubble-recipe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Experimenting with new bubble recipe\" alt=\"Experimenting with new bubble recipe\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Experimenting-with-new-bubble-recipe_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our closest osprey, his nest positioned at the top of a tree across from our campsite, flew to perch on a nearby limb and watch the popped bubble strings float away. Sensing it wasn\u2019t food, he loudly broadcasted his disappointment and returned home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ospray-across-from-our-site.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Ospray across from our site\" alt=\"Ospray across from our site\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ospray-across-from-our-site_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Nest-by-our-site.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Nest by our site\" alt=\"Nest by our site\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Nest-by-our-site_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We sighted another coyote next to one of the camp sites but he wandered off by the time I got the camera out of the motorhome. One of our campers saw an old porcupine waddle slowly by our site at the water\u2019s edge and our marmot poked his head out to watch us greet the newbies. Our geese waddled their babies out of the water and up into the campground to teach them the proper way to poop on our little patches of grass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Neighboring-fussy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Neighboring fussy\" alt=\"Neighboring fussy\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Neighboring-fussy_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Geese-family.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Geese family\" alt=\"Geese family\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Geese-family_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One day left. Lots of campsites to clean, lots of last minute cramming belongings into available spaces to achieve. Weather is not being cooperative. 9:00 am cool, windy overcast. 9:15 am brilliant sunshine. 9:20 am pouring down rain. 9:25 am wind with sleet, sticking to Ribbit\u2019s window. 9:45 brilliant sunshine poking out between clouds. 10:10 am sleet sticking to our work camp cab cart. 10:20 am warm brilliant sunshine. Spokane is truly a \u201cif-you-don\u2019t-like-the-weather-wait-five-minutes-and-it-will-change-drastically\u201d kind of town. Just enough time for a Kodak moment with the Spokane River minutes before another down pour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Spokane-River.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Spokane River\" alt=\"Spokane River\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Spokane-River_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quick sneak out to take one last picture of our Spokane River sunset before a much needed nights sleep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Last-sunset-on-the-Spokane.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Last sunset on the Spokane\" alt=\"Last sunset on the Spokane\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Last-sunset-on-the-Spokane_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winding down of our first work camp position of our 2014 year has begun. Being planted next to the peaceful Spokane River was a treasured pleasure. 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