It’s been a bit of a mad whirlwind the last week or so. The weekend before this last one, we went over to the coast for 3 nights for mostly social reasons. First up was my “little” brother’s 60th birthday, which he didn’t want a big deal made of. His wife had a nice dinner [...]
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Busy Week
Posted in family & friends on March 26, 2012 | 3 Comments »
We-Haul
Posted in family & friends, home life on March 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
We made a quick trip to Portland, Oregon this past weekend. One reason was to pick up a load of oak display cases from our friends who own The Real Mother Goose Gallery in Portland. These are cases that Rick built for the stores probably 25-30 years ago (there were three stores at the time, [...]
Labor Day visitors
Posted in family & friends, Methow Valley on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Rick’s daughter and son-in-law drove up from Medford last Thursday to visit us and see our new home at Wolf Creek. It’s a long drive, about 12 hours if done straight, so we really appreciated them making the effort. We didn’t “do” much, just took it easy and had a nice visit. But it turns [...]
Family and Feast
Posted in family & friends, Methow Valley on August 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last week our grand-daughter took a week of her vacation to come up to visit us from Medford, OR. It was her first long road trip by herself but she seemed to enjoy it, and we had a great time. The first 3 days we stayed in the valley and just sort of hung out [...]
Quinault Weekend
Posted in family & friends, knitting, outdoors on July 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last week we spent 3 nights out at Lake Quinault at our friends’ cabin resort: Lochaerie Resort on the north shore, in the Olympic National Park (see link in sidebar). The occasion was a fund-raising bike ride around the lake (31 miles if you make it all the way) for the Quinault Cancer Fund. I [...]
Coming up for air
Posted in family & friends, Methow Valley, weaving on June 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, it’s been almost 3 weeks since my last post. Life has been busy but wonderful! During our week at home after the trip to Oregon, we had a little time to catch up on home life. I had applied to join the Winthrop Gallery, an artist cooperative, before we left for Utah, and was [...]
SoCal sojourn
Posted in family & friends, travel on April 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I couldn’t write about this in advance, for fear of spoiling the surprise – but last week we flew down to southern California for a long weekend and 60th birthday celebration with best friends. We had air miles to use and figured, why not? It was planned out in advance with her husband, who picked [...]
From Snow Geese to Snow Gone
Posted in family & friends, weaving on February 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend we made a trip to the Coast to pick up materials for one of Rick’s cabinet jobs, and visit with friends and family. On the way to and from Anacortes, in the Skagit Valley, we saw large flocks of snow geese out in the fields. They are quite a sight! Then when we [...]
Downhill all the way
Posted in family & friends, outdoors on January 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday morning started with a moose sighting! Rick was downstairs making coffee and he saw it running right by the house. By the time I got downstairs, it was heading towards the fields across the road, so we didn’t have a chance to take a picture. We have heard of moose occasionally being seen on [...]
16 Scarves
Posted in family & friends, weaving on January 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
After we returned from Christmas on the coast, I wound 4 warps for the plaited twill scarves – that is, 4 different colorways, 2 of which were new ones I had in mind but hadn’t tried yet. I can get 4 scarves from a 10-yard warp so I have been weaving away and now have [...]
