It’s been quite a treat to be able to have my own real garden again for the first time in years (since we left our home in MT). It’s not big, but I’m packing in flowers and veggies…
May brought warm days and beach, a soccer game, Matt leading our UU church choir (and lots more fun days enjoying our church), Cedar the chef and Cedar the scientist (making dry-ice ice-cream and dry ice explosions with…
We joined our friends at Ft. Ebey State Park on Whidbey Island for a camping weekend. It was a different kind of camping experience for our family– less primitive that what we normally do (we even went out…
Matt’s mom came back from Montana with us for another week of fun in Washington, so we had some adventures: Beach and walks, woods and more beach, botanic garden, an old military fort, sand dollar collecting and, of…
In April the kids and I took off for a week in Montana. The weather was mostly very warm (as it was in WA), so we got to spend a TON of time outdoors. We discovered a beach we’d…
These snapshots from April include abrupt and unseasonably warm, dry weather here in WA (regular 80+ degree days), so we took advantage of it by heading to beaches with friends. Also included are walks and ferry rides, gardening (both planting…
I’m working on taking a photo a day, even though I seem to be often moving at a fast pace through my ever-growing list of things to handle, in order to document these precious times while we’re in the…
This is kind of a sad story… but an interesting one nonetheless. We didn’t realize, when we bought our house, the damage the huge redwood tree we now owned was doing to our property, as well as our neighbors’ properties. We didn’t consider,…
