I'm excited, the ornamental grass that we planted this Spring is "blooming". Seems funny to plant grass in the flower bed, but we really like it, and it gives some height to that area too!

Hi everyone--

Last weekend, Kris, Jeremy and I went out to the peninsula to relax and soak up some sun. The weather was a bit on the chilly side (upper 60s), but when the sun was out, it was lovely.

We camped next to a large, glacial lake named Lake Crescent. The water was crystal clear, and we got there in time the night before to catch sunset over the lake. This picture is from the next morning, with some low hanging clouds that cleared up just after breakfast.


The first day, we hiked in a few miles to fish along the Elwha, within Olympic Nat'l Park. The second day, we fished the Sol Duc--the bridge below is from the point where the North fork and South fork of the Sol Duc meet.

A hummingbird moth has been coming to our hanging basket outside the kitchen window. It's the first time I've seen one up close. He was very cooperative when I took these photos, you can even see his antennae curled up in the second picture.


He's soo cute!! Hopefully he keeps coming to visit! :)

Strawberry picking last weekend was a huge success--walked away with 12lb of ripe, organic, local berries at $1/lb ;-) Even though you can't tell in this picture, the local berries were super, deep red, and extra juicy. I may have a hard time going back to store-bought berries!



Gloria and I made some jam and canned about 5lbs each--made a dozen half pint containers. The color is just gorgeous--and I can't stop eating it.

Love you all! Glad everyone is home now and safe from all their travels.

Happy June! I finally took a few pictures of those curtains I made a few months ago:



They're linen, with some lovely accent loops over a wooden dowel. I liked the fabric so much that I made a little wristlet this afternoon out of the remnants. Now I have a purse to match my curtains! (That's called accessorizing).



Just big enough for a phone and wallet.

Hi everyone!

A few pictures of the new road bike. It's 16sp, probably from the mid 90s somewhere (not sure of the year), and clearly a beautiful shade of blue.



Candace helped me clean it up and get all the parts oiled so they worked as smoothly as possible, and I've commuted to work with it a few times now. At some point, I'll probably put a rack on the back to hold my bags.

It'll be my only form of transportation for the weekend, so lets hope the bike (and my thighs) are up to the challenge.

;-)

We had our Mother's Day get together yesterday and it was a lot of fun! Mom loved her new necklace. Here are a few photos...

It was a warm sunny day, but it was too windy to enjoy the outdoors much. Mom and Dad did get to try out our new deck furniture...


And Jason and Reese had fun flying their SpiderMan kite!

Reese tried flying it herself....and quickly flew it right into a tree. Luckily Uncle Jason got it down without any trouble...


Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend!! :-)

I know I've been promising to post these all week and I'm finally just getting around to it...here's how our living room looks now with the curtains and endtables. Now I just need to find two lamps and a few decorative items to put on the shelves under the endtables and this room will be finished (for now)!

Dad had a good 60th birthday, Amanda made a delicious Lemon Blueberry Cake, and he was very surprised when he opened his card...

and saw that he was getting a new gas grill...

We picked the grill up last night, and put it together this afternoon. It came unassembled, and the nice people at Wal-Mart did offer to put it together for us. But we figured it couldn't be that hard...until we opened the box, and saw all of the parts that it came with (there are even more pieces in the shadows that you can't see), and we started thinking - maybe we should have let them put it together....


Dad worked hard putting it together. Of course I worked just as hard telling him what screw and part went where ~ someone had to supervise and figure out the pictures on the instructions! :)

But truthfully, the grill went together without any problems. All of the pieces were there, and everything fit together beautifully. And when dad was finished, he had a shiny new grill to cookout on (dad even polished it up to get the fingerprints off before I took the photo!)...

We have to get either a new tank or converter for our old tank before we can use it. Which won't be a problem. I'll post a photo of dad the first time he cooks on it!

Or so we thought. It took the squirrels less than 24 hours to figure out how to pop open the lid...


Oh well...I guess the squirrels have to eat too... :-)