Scenes From Whidbey Island

 I am now a year older. So is my sister Laurie. We ended our pageants today with lunch together in Olympia. She went to ride a jet boat on the Rogue River in Oregon, I went to Whidbey Island.

On Friday I had small birthday party. Irene made the cake, and Jill made the Charcuterie and dinner.

Of course there is always a walk to the beach after dinner.

On Saturday Tom and I went off island to the Mukilteo Garden and Quilt Tour. That will be another post.

Isaac and Seile were around but doing their own thing most of the time, Jill did a lot of walking and boating. Irene did a lot of studying. She is taking a summer school class and had a test on Monday.

Tom did some yard work. We both did a lot of sitting. I did short walks.

We all walked on the dike.

Monday, with just us left at the cabin, we took a load of yard waste to the dump and stopped at Bayview Garden.

We walked, we read, we ate too much, and we wound down. We watched the sunset.

By Tuesday evening we were back home, just in time to appreciate our air-conditioning as the heat wave arrived.

Now we look forward to some slow days at home. It's time for the lazy, crazy days of summer.

New Phones, New Weather, New Trip Around the Sun

 It rained today. Probably for the first time in more than a month. In fact, it poured, along with thunder and lightning. We were at the Farmer's Market this morning when it let loose, and we had to seek shelter. By this afternoon it was partly sunny. 

It's currently 10:00PM, and we just finished watching a disaster of a Sounders soccer match against our arch rivals. A score of 5-1 is one to forget. I'll also be ready to be done with the World Cup after the final on Sunday.

We have been busy. Added to the regular tasks around here, on Tuesday, I think it was Tuesday, we bought new iPhones. Since then we have stumbled at following vague directions to transfer data from the old phones to the new, since the "service providers" didn't provide much service. After much finagling, and more help for Tom's phone, we are at least functioning. New and improved  is just more complicated.

Tomorrow, which will be today by the time any of you read this, will be my 82nd birthday. We will go to breakfast as usual and then pack up to go to Whidbey Island, where we will meet up with Jill and Irene for an extended weekend. I intend to be lazy, leave most of the cooking to someone else, and enjoy being another year older. 

On Saturday Tom and I will attend a Garden and Quilt Show, a biennial show in Mukilteo. There will eventually be photos for you. I will be excited to use my new phone camera. 

Now I am finally going to post photos of the  garden visit to the Bellevue Botanical Garden that Tom and I took last Sunday. I loved the color and texture contrasts in the plantings. and the pathways through the border. 

Enjoy. This is a photo "dump".

See you when I'm a year older.

That's all folks!