Pic-of-the-Week for August 28, 2013

Hello Family and friends,

The last Pic-of-the-Week we were just leaving Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge.  When we got back to civilization where we had internet access I had a surprise email sent from my web site.  Many of you do not know, but I have a web site for my Martin-Parry Model A.  It is not finished and is still pretty crude, but it has been a help in bringing people together that have Martin-Parry vehicles.  The web site is: http://www.martin-parry.com/ if you want to look at it.

Anyway, the email was from a Mr. A. J. Parry from Bend, and the way it started out, I thought I was in trouble for using the name Martin-Parry on my web site as it could possibly be a patented name that I was using without permission.  As it turned out, he is a descendent of the Parry family, (his grandfather was president of the Martin-Parry Corporation) and has collected information for many years.  He was just about ready to send all his information to the Indiana Historical Society when a friend of his told him about the web site.  We met with him and his wife and he allowed me to copy a LOT of information which I will eventually add to the web site.  (Turns out his wife worked with Harriet's sister Sharon years ago at the Eugene Public Library while Sharon was attending the U of O.) 

They turned out to be really nice people, and we took them to dinner the next night.

The Parry Manufacturing Company made buggies prior to merging with the Martin Truck and Body Corporation.

We met with the Purkey family for a weekend and had a good time and good weather on the Deschutes River at Lake Simtustus

It was an area with a lot of beautiful scenery and the weather was nice and warm!  Perfect!  This is the view from our campsite.

(Ben forgot to add this nice photo of his brothers and sister, and sisters-in-law).

Took a drive to visit an area of balancing rocks…..

We finally made it to our residence in Walla Walla where we had a good time visiting with Dick and Julie.  Then it was on to Bull Lake in Montana where we visited with Harriet’s sister and her husband.  While there we went to an area of  old growth Red Cedar trees.

And David took us for rides on the lake where we saw a number of Bald eagles.

For that last few days we've been camped in our friend's yard in Whitefish, MT, and today we're heading south to St. Regis and some other friends' cabin by the Clark Fork River, where we won't have internet access for a few days.  The photos below are from Whitefish, and the sunrise this morning.

There are two Picasa albums for August now.  The newest is
 August Part 2 .
The older one is August 2013.

Until I get in the mood to write again!

Ben, Harriet, Sam and Zoey, (who have worn themselves out trying to catch a squirrel or two!)