Meditation and Relaxation

Hi Ron

 I hope this one turns out okay for me but I will certainly keep you updated.

The page views are doing exactly what you said and seem to be gathering pace by the day, I cant express how pleased I am with the result and the interest the thread has created.

But more important than ever the number of people that have contacted me and the assistance I have been able to offer.

Wonderful news Neil...let us know when it's released. You know much of Oregon is waterfalls, Lakes, ocean and Hot Springs...amid green forests and rivers/creeks and scenic vistas.Have you thought of Silver Falls Park?....as even Ray Akinson, the photographer use to love to go and take epictures of it, in black and white in the winterwith snow and in color during the autumn. I am aways learning about this state from the older people here. Like the "Painted HIlls" in eastern Oregon...our "Rock Shop" lady we use to have here owned property up here..she was showing me an picture of what she felt was at one time an Native American "questing" site...the ritual where young men go and fast until they get an "vision" of what they are to become in the future days. Always on an high hill...ususally flat ground, they dig out an shallow pit so if they get disorientated, they can't walk off the cliff so as to say..sometimes in the distance they have an travelling companion to watch over them. The stars of this place were panoramic and of course the hills really do look like they were  painted in various bands of colors. I miss this lady since she retired and moved to the coast...and her shop. I don' t know if she was partNative American herself or not...but she raised her own sheep, sheared them, and cleaned the wool, dyed it an made her own skeins of yarn..and worked with the 4-H and young girls to teach them how to knit....to keep the knowledge alive for another few generations. You know my "ex" step-mother was one of the few that could repair hand-crotched tablecloths and dollies handed down...and use to earn some money from those services, as well as make Christmas ornaments as an side line. She also knit also. My thing when I was an girl was "embroidery"....I always liked white on white items...though I've done colors...but white on white seems to go with everything easier.  Been some time since those days. Even night gowns and wedding dresses often use to have white embroidery on them...baby layfettes and Christening gowns. Sometimes accented with tiny pearls if they could be had at the time. Pearls are my gemstone..though some people added Alexandriate also..just to make sure the "Gemini" in us had an twin I guess.

Peggy your more then welcomed..I love taking baths. I like to go up to the Bonneville Resort near Cascade Locks and soak in one of their tubs, which doesn't cost an arm and an leg like the rest of this resort .It has changed over the years, they use to have one big Library for the main lodge...and all the reading materials were Volunteer books/magazines and some board games and cards...and it made for an nice weekend in the rain we have here in iwinter.. to sit by the huge windows and the fire roaring and the little water course out and around the building... kind of pleasant. they also have jucuzzi tubs, Olympic swimming pool also...and body messages, but they were bought out by an European firm and "wow"...expenisive now. Still nice, but different theme to it now..it's on-line...if you'd like to have an look at it. Kind of place I always wished someone would decorate to the hilt at Christmas and have an big tree and people singing or someone piano playing or guitar strumming out tunes. Most the body massagers do not live there, but travel from the city to the guests... after they make their appointments with them at the resort. I think it's now something like $300 per night. It's about 30 minutes away from the city by car.

I should of said the restruarnt is in the same building as the Spa...they are both down from the main Library and lobby...there's an inner court and an Olympic swimming pool and in outside small jaccuzi tub and an inside Jacuzzi tube...like most motels have, next ot the pool. Dr. Sasson and his wife were there once time with me and my sister visting the Spa.. as hubby was out of town with the scouts in an camp-over. Thye don' tlive to far away, his clinic is in Rockwood...his son's were in our Scout group..one is now at Harvard, the other at Yake..becoming "Micro-biologiist's"  Now they put an mini-golf course out in front, free with the lodging...and it's hard telling what all else. Skamania Lodge isn't to far away...the area is peppered with Natural mineral springs. On the Oregom side you can't beat staying at the Best Western Cascade Locks..third floor up if possible...what an panoramic view. When Kerry was running for political office...president or vice president(?)...he stayed in one of those locations...they didn't reveal just exactly where for security reasons..