What's Up?

When one has been a frequent publisher of blog posts, and then starts leaving big gaps between posts, it can cause concern.  So it is that at least one of my "people", as I refer to you, my loyal readers, felt the need to reach out with a personal email, checking up to see if I was OK.

I am perfectly OK, if perhaps a little unsettled.  But also, I've been busy.

Monday and Tuesday we went to Whidbey Island.

On Wednesday Irene was "sick" and spent the day with us.  Turns out that upset tummy didn't last very long, and we had fun setting up her garden shop.  

On Thursday Tom traveled with my brother-in-law to Rockaway Beach to meet with contractors on that ongoing remodel project.  He returned in time for dinner Friday evening.  During that time I went shopping: Petsmart, JoAnn's, Costco, Safeway; made curtains for Irene's flower-shop-in-the-shed, exercised, and started on a sewing project I have been putting off.

                                                       Garden shop curtains.

                     Sewing project.  Someday it might be a quilted jacket.

Saturday Morning we had a garden tour of a local botanical garden with our garden club.

Saturday evening we went to a Sounders soccer match at the stadium that was amazing, a 4-2 win over the MLS leading team.

Sunday morning we recovered, I went for a four mile walk, then greeted Corey and the kids, who had been camping near Sequim, fed them lunch, and took Corey to the airport to go back to Colorado.  Shortly after that Jill arrived from her overnight Mountaineers class, which she was the leader of.  The Gibsons departed, leaving us time to get to some Open Gardens near Bothel and Monroe, and then dinner out.

That last place was a groomed, edited, thirty year project of a walk in the woods!  Wow!

Where was I?  Monday?  Oh, we cleaned house and then worked in the yard, dragging ourselves in for dinner and to plop down in front of the TV.  

Today we bought a shed for Jill, which we will now have to find time to erect, and I worked on my sewing and went for a walk, where I got rained on.  But it was just a short shower, and I got dried off when the sun came back out again.  

So all is well here.  

We've been following the political "scandals", watching and waiting for the Republicans to burn themselves out again. And of course we've followed the devastation in Moore, OK, relieved to hear this morning that the death toll had actually been lowered.  We're heard it before, but I'll say it again, "Thank a teacher today".