This is the time for the annual Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival. We usually get season tickets, and attend with my brother and sister-in-law from Camano Island (and up until recently, my Dad as well). This year we only got tickets for the first 2 concerts, because of other obligations for all of us. But it was still good, and I got to go to the third concert a few nights ago with a friend who had an extra ticket.
Thursday, July 28:
Tuesday. August 2 – after another day of thunderstorms, heavy rain, wind, cold. Maybe that’s mist not a crummy photo:
Last Friday my brother and I hiked up to Cedar Creek Falls – only 1.7 miles, but it was in the 90’s and thankfully, mostly in the shade.
We found the geocache, one of the first ones from the 1980’s I have been told:
We are in the final stages of getting ready for the 15th annual Methow Valley Home Tour. It is this Saturday, August 6, and the theme this year is “Firewise Homes: Fire-adapted Building and Landscaping”. The website says it will “look at valley homes from a more practical, rather than purely aesthetic, standpoint. How can smart design, layout and construction choices make our homes more resilient in fire country?”
Ours will be one of 8 homes on the tour – all had good ratings from the Okanogan County Firewise program last fall, and 3 of them are on our loop road. Of those 8, only 5 will also have their homes open (the usual model for the tour). This is one reason Rick has been pushing to finish up projects in the house! and we have also done more work in the yard. I will take pictures on Saturday and post on the blog.
Twisp of Fate 
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