Thursday Scenes

HOME AWAY FROM HOME: Another low-key day for us as we enjoy some time away from our usual digs.

We did a couple minor repairs on this place. Home improvement is kind of our idea of fun. ;)

I do love the porthole windows on this place. 

At one point today, Annabelle was working on an art project and CJ was sitting in on a Zoom call with Evergreen State about how to apply for scholarships. Streaming if which, he received a letter from Evergreen offering a $1500 scholarship for kids first year thanks to his strog grades to date.

NEIGHBORLY: The place we're staying this week is sandwiched between the Pacific Ocean and a sprawling golf course, Gearhart Golf Links, the oldest golf course in Oregon. At the end of the road is a McMenamins' hotel and restaurants establishment. 

Their main dining room is called Sand Trap Pub. 

On its menu is a little history lesson about the golf course. 

"Opened in 2007 on the Gearhart Golf Links, the hotel and Sand Trap pub that McMenamins inherited and expanded upon was a reincarnation of the links’ first clubhouse built in the mid-1920s. The course itself is even older, having been laid out in the 1890s, making it one of the first on the West Coast. As The Oregonian remarked in 1923, 'There is perhaps no course in the United States that is so truly similar to the famous home course of modern golf, that of the Royal and Ancient Golf club, at St. Andrews in Scotland.' That makes sense, since the links’ original surveyors were a group of Scotsman rehomed in Oregon. They included one Robert Livingstone, whose grand residence was in NW Portland, where McMenamins Rams Head Pub is today."

We head home tomorrow. It has been a really nice change of pace, and I hope get get a chance to come visit the place again someday.