Geography & Grandkids

It's the weekend and we get to visit my daughter's family in Yakima, WA. In case you're not familiar with our WA state geography, we live in western WA where we get a lot of marine air with the accompanying cooler summer days that are sometimes mixed with rain. From about the end of June the weather changes and we actually go into warm - even hot - days and beautiful evenings that are comfortable for sleeping. Temps are generally in the upper 70's to mid 80's, but we can reach into the mid 90's quite frequently on the east side areas further away from Puget Sound where Seattle is located.

Now, to continue this little lesson, once you cross the Cascade Range about 50 miles due east of Seattle, you hit the hot, dry Columbia Basin (central WA) and on east where summers are typically in the mid-90's to low-100's. Humidity is way low and this area (Yakima) only experiences 7-10 inches of rain a year. A good deal of the fruit and juice you enjoy comes from this area and north of here there are many thousands of acres of wheat. Hundreds of vineyards are found here as well with many award-winning wineries in the area.

So it's nice to come over and enjoy the family with lots of grandkids and great-grandkids running around. Our daughter has horses (she's a barrel racer with lots of regional and state wins) cows, chickens & area for the kids to run in. Kids are our legacy and in generations when each of us are gone, I believe that people will know us best by how our children and their children love and serve God and others, and are just good people. Hopefully, Marlys and I will have done our jobs well if people see that in our family. The Bible says that children are an heritage from the Lord; I do believe that.