FUMMER

Those days that you wait for Summer to fade away while Fall creeps in. Too warm to ramp up the furnace, but cool enough to remove the A/C from the window. It's too early to set a pumpkin out, but the lawn chairs we hauled all over Summertime are now collecting little pools of rain water. But before fummer made it's arrival, and the late night homework and football games began to crowd our calendar, we made one last mad dash for a day .....

We managed to find a whole day that the Hiltonkrew was willing to cram into the little Honda and make the drive to Cannon Beach. In 26 years of living only a few hours from the coast, I have finally seen Haystack Rock up close.
AND it was warm.
And the wind was NOT causing the sand to pelt us mercilessly!
AND the sky was a perfect blue.
AND we all had clam chowder.
Perfect.