G&G, J&K, L&D

Grandma, Grandpa, John, Lenny, Dakota and I spent last weekend at the beach. Just for fun!

Lenny has decided it is a good idea to freak out when the car alarms go off on the ferry. Thought I would see if his Thunder Shirt would help him relax. Jury is out on how it went.

We each had a few projects we wanted to get done but mostly we wanted to just hang out and enjoy a couple of days out there. And I'm happy to report it worked out just as we planned.

There wasn't a breath of air so the sun was toasty warm. Grandpa eventually shed his sweatshirt - so it must have been hot for that cold-blooded man to get down to a t-shirt!

Grandma spent hours puttering among the flowers and foliage. Her favorite thing to do.

Grandma did say she is really looking forward to Ben and James cutting back the  prolific weeds, grasses and plants so we will look less like the shanty Irish (please note: not a racial slur - just a grandma saying!)

Question. How many people does it take to fix a door that sticks?

Answer: Three plus Lenny.

A makeshift shower is in place (thank you mr. marth for helping me with my vision). It will undoubtedly need some adjustments and improvements as it gets used - but I'm hoping it will give the worker-guys a comfortable place to at least rinse off the outer layer of grime.

Of course the shower setup required some rearrangements. I know, I know. I can hear Ben and James telling me to quit moving things around - but I'm doing all of this for you. Really. Ya gotta believe me!

This former recycle bucket has been reassigned as the new bathroom garbage can. At least for now. Sadly I have two dumpster diving canine companions. I'm hoping this re-purposed garbage can will thwart all 4-legged creatures while nicely accommodating the rest of us!

Lucky, Dakota and Lenny had projects to accomplish too...eat, sniff, poop and play. Mission accomplished ;)

Snack break.

There was a smidge of excitement as PSE tried to find a break in the power line that runs from our power pole to Caley's property. As it turned out the problem was about 3 feet under the ground in the middle of our turnaround. About 8:00 PM Caley's had power back and the very nice worker-guys from PSE got to call it a day.

BIG Puget Sound Energy truck in the middle of the road (eventually there were a couple more)

Gard's graciously accommodated our vehicles in their carport so grandma, grandpa and I did not have to walk from the logging turnaround (Johnny was a good sport and parked up there :))

We were wishing we could ask them to trim some branches while they were up there!

They thought they knew right where the faulty power line was...

...but it proved a bit more elusive than expected!

Quite some time later (and after some careful exploratory digging) they found what they were looking for. The also found our old corrugated drain pipe. No one will be surprised to hear it was decayed, fractured, collapsed, filled in and just generally useless and non-functioning. Guess we can ditch the bucket that Grandpa has used to mark the start of the drainpipe...so we could clean it out one day!    

We sat around and had a great time visiting while the PSE workers did their thing...

...and they sat tied up while the PSE workers did their thing. I don't think they enjoyed themselves as much as we did.

Job is complete.

All is again right in the world

Grandma's moon over Vashon. Even though it wasn't pitch dark it was still pretty dang cool!

Good morning happy place. You are perfect. 

Grandma, Lenny and Dakota have already enjoyed the -3.2 tide and walked to Fragaria and back. Now we are just hanging out waiting for Grandpa to rise and shine and have breakfast.

This is our Happy Birthday to Joc picture. OK. Admittedly it needs some work - but it is the sentiment that counts. Happy Birthday little momma!

Do you know what this is? June bug? 

Don't know how they know it is nearing time to leave but they do. And  about that time Dakota is either glued to my side or my car...why is this? I've never left him and not returned!