WEEK IN REVIEW

Here are some shots from the last week.  Last weekend we went to the island and the ‘trauma’ (if you can call it that) was the unexpected discovery that one of Dad’s flower boxes had nearly rotted through.  Unlikely it would survive another season, so off to Brownes lumber for supplies.

 

 

 

Dad had put a nice curve in the front and it served as a nice template for the new one.  A little different construction technique, but hopefully Dad would nod in approval while simultaneously pointing out a few minor flaws.

 

The view that never gets old.

 

 

Jodi prepared an excellent meal and one of Mom’s friends came over for Dinner.

 

We had several nice sunsets throughout the week.

 

Built this one for Jodi.  Ornamental flowers bracket herbs and peppers.

 

 

While we didn’t capture it with pictures, Friday night had it’s share of excitement.  We had an impromptu dock party with several of the liveaboards nearby.  Great group of people.  Adventurers, partiers, sailors, and dreamers – and some of the folks had all those attributes.  The docks are going to lose at least 3 boats over the next 3 weeks.  2 couples are headed out on multi year sailing adventures.  One is headed north today, the other headed south.  The 3^rd boat was sold and its owners are temporarily moving ashore, their sights set on a larger boat to liveaboard.

 

It’s those types of folks that make the dock so interesting.  This isn’t suburbia and the people on the dock are delightfully different.

 

During Friday night’s dock party we heard sirens and soon an impressive force of fire trucks had formed near the head of the dock.  Many of them dressed in full fire gear, but there seemed to be no event in the immediate area – then one of the Victoria clipper catamarans slowly approached the dock with an unusual number of people crowded on the upper deck.  Normally these things scream between Seattle and Victoria and just over 30 knots, but this one was coming in dead slow, into Shilshole which is not a normal port for them.

 

Come to find out they had experienced an engine fire and Seattle Fire Department had responded with a show of force.  Fortunately no one was injured and aside from all the trucks, there wasn’t much to see.  By that time the party was well underway and we all waved at the news helicopters covering the breaking news.

 

Yesterday had a 22 degree rainbow or more commonly a sun halo.

 

 

 

That’s about it for the week.  Now I'm caught up!