First HOT weekend of the year!

Recital

Térèse on the UPS campus after her recital.

Maple Lawn Elementary's 6th Annual Art Walk

Resident Artists: Every single Maple Lawn Student
Guest Artists: Kaj Bune and Lana Hoover
Co-Chairs: Shannon Tracy and Lisa Steudel

Luhr's Landing, around Anderson Island and back

A warm Spring day, a willing flotilla, and a picnic lunch. all you need for perfect day on the water. 15.2 miles of beautiful water.   

Wild life encountered:

pacific harbour seal

california sea lion

common loon

arctic loon

western grebe

bald eagle

orange sea pen

anenome

sun star

sand dollar

pigeon guillimot

king fisher

merganser

scoter

star fish

jelly fish

great blue heron

dungeness crab

red rock crab

salmon

sea run cutthroat

kids

clams

power boater

sea cucumber

barnacle

mussel

moon snail

starry flounder

killdeer

not a bad wildlife list for a day paddle in the Puget Sound!

check out Kaj's photo blog for some fun images.

Fearless Adventurers:

Nils

Mikaela

Terese

Maylon

Kaj

Lisa

Ted 

Human powered vehicles:

two Sea Clipper canoes and Lisa's Arluk 1.8 sea kayak

Spring Paddle to the Spit

Paddled out to the Spit on the Nisqually Delta one day over spring break.  We had Great company (thanks Kris!) and saw eagles, seals, giant limpets, gulls, and sunshine.  We'll definitely return when the mercury rises a little and the arctic terns start to migrate.  Great day for a sneak peak of spring in the Pacific Northwest.

Use it or lose it. Guess that applies to remembering how to post a blog. 

It has been a month or more since our last post primarily because our Nekst Projekt (s) were either so big (and still ongoing) or complete surprises (not the fun kind).  Fortunately we've had good friends and family help and humor us through the various debacles. 

It all comes down to being the owned by a house with "character". In this case, character took the multi-headed form of a complete refitting of the house electrical systems, doubling the usable square footage of the house by exposing a hidden stair case, and digging up the septic system for kicks! 

In this last few months we have been reminded that every house projekt will handsomely exceed even the most carefully planned budget and timeline. Budgets and timelines are for fooling yourself into a projekt and believing that it will be complete before the next pumpkin is carved.

Lilly

We've been spending these long winter evenings curled up with good books or magazines in front of the fire.  Lilly loves crashing in front of the fire and then when she gets too hot she'll get up and move to the cool slate floor.  It's back and forth all evening for her.  Here she came back to the fire and fell asleep on my magazine.  She's got a rough life!