Robin Risley's Blog

As you can see our new puppy "Tater" has taken a liking to his new Doctor. He was there for his 11 week check up and shot. As doctor Goza says, "He is in excellent health". Having been in practice since 1979, he runs a community clinic He employs four other great doctors who see up to 75 patients...

On December 9th The Clatsop Association of Realtors Board met with Dr. John Wallace (Oregon Association of Realtor EO) to do an afternoon of Vision Planning for  2011. We were  honored to have Dr. John take his time to speak with us. He has an excellent background as a professor and coach so no q...

This Sunday we had a mushroom walk (see previous blog) and while we were walking the trail, I took some pictures of the beautiful scenery that one experiences along the way. It doesn't take long to climb to a point where you can look down on the crashing waves below. Some of our group couldn't s...

On Saturday night of Stormy Weather the rain was coming down in buckets.  Carmen welcomed the music goers to her wonderful new events center located in the middle of the Sea Ranch Complex (see an earlier blog about the rabbits). Inside we were all warm and cosy listening to a great selection of m...

This weekend the weather cooperated to give us the electric atmosphere for our very popular arts festival in November: Stormy Weather Arts Festival. This event is an opportunity for all the art galleries in town to show their stuff. Each location,  ten in all, have featured artist for all three d...

The season for finding these wonderful fungi are from fall to spring. Dane Osis, an Oregon State Park Ranger, from Fort Stevens met at the Cannon Beach City Hall.  We drove up to Ecola State Park to the trail that takes us to Indian Beach. We found many exciting ones: Black Butt Rot, a False Chan...

Today Arch Cape is in it's glory!   We had such a wild storm last night and now look at it today...beautiful. This is a small community south of Cannon Beach by about five miles. The rock formations here are beautiful. In fact the small rocks move in during the winter and wash away during the spr...

At the end of October was the installation of the Clatsop Association of Realtors Officers for 2011. It was held at the Astoria Golf and Country Club. Close to 80 were in attendance. We were honored to have Joann Hansen the incoming Oregon Association of Realtors President there to do the install...

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I have heard of disappointing experiences working for a friend but this was a delight.....second one actually. It started out that Eeva was going to purchase some land in Arch Cape to build a very small cabin to be a retreat for herself and her artists...

The coast is a bewitching place.  In the winter time, when it is a high tide, a full moon and  has been raining hard......we have flooding over the highway on the way into Seaside. Of course, it is dictated by the high tide and this week we had our first occurrence....early. I have been told that...