Potatoes!

We dug up a 10ft. row of potatoes today which yielded 16 lbs. Not bad! Not really great, either. I got 3 lbs per row foot last year. Honestly, for a pound of seed potatoes to turn into 16lbs. of food it's still pretty awesome.

Jetty Island

Fun little island a short ferry ride from Everett! The sea is very shallow here for miles so the water is nice and warm for wading and soaking in. The sand is clean, not very muddy, with a prolific amount of wildlife. We found clams, shrimp, we saw all kinds of birds, algae, seaweed, worms, crabs . . . The kids had a blast splashing, digging, chasing birds and Sammy helped Leela dress up like a mermaid with Seaweed. We found if you sand still long enough, you start to sink. Dave got up nearly to his knees before he chicken out. As you can see, we came at low tide. We'd like to come back at high tide when the swimming will be better.

Rutsic Bread

Damn you bread and your crusty, chewycarbs. It doesn't matter how much whole wheat flour I add to you. You will still mock me. So I will drown you in soup and in you I drown my sorrow.

Hidden Lake Hike

When we woke up this morning and looked out the window, we couldn't bare the thought of another grey, rainy day. So we found a hike on the other say of the pass where the weather was beautiful. Located above Lake Wenatchee is a little, quite lake called Hidden Lake. The walk is short at a 1/2 a mile with switchbacks and old growth cedars and pines. The kids were fascinated by all the glittery rocks and sand everywhere. Mica schist. The water was a gorgeous color and so clear.

Ebey's Landing Hike

We had a break of nice weather this summer, so we thought we'd make the very best of it and drive over to Camano Island and walk the Perego Lagoon trail at Ebey's Landing. SO glad we did. Lots too see, very sunny but not hot, spectacular views! 5 miles round trip.

Pics from April and May

A smattering of things that happened before June.


NOM NOM NOM!
What's up my Peeps?

Cooper's Birthday.

Cooper's first day of pre-school.

Baking cookies is better than TV.

Barclay Lake Hike

We decided a late spring hike is just what we needed for Father's Day weekend. The trail is 2 miles up a narrow canyon, shadowing a river. We drove up several miles of forestry roads to get to the trailhead, so we felt pretty far away from civilization! We saw lots of small, blooming woodland flowers. We smelled a skunk. We jumped across several narrow, shallow creeks that ran cross the trail.

The kids carried their own water, food, first aid . . . They did so good!
We crossed a narrow food bridge to get across Barclay Creek.


It took us about 2 hours to get to Barclay lake. Looking up we saw the face of Mt. Barring. I'm sitting on the ground on the shore to get the whole mountain in frame

Sammy is a Pre-School graduate!

On to conquer Kindergarten!