Wooden Boat Festival
This weekend is Port Townsend’s Wooden Boat Festival. There are activities, a crafts fair and boats galore!
Continue reading →Marsha Perry
Five Links – Port Townsend Edition
Autoworks – The Man of the House had a tricky problem with his car. The Autoworks team quickly diagnosed it and fixed it. The car runs like a charm now. Ferino’s Pizzeria – When we’re too tired to cook we … Continue reading →
A Salamander? In Washington?
This little guy was on the side of our house this week. I’ve seen salamanders in Florida, but not in Washington. I did some Internet research and they are here. I think this might be a Western Redback Salamander.
Continue reading →Happy Fourth of July
I hope you have a wonderful Fourth of July. The above photo is from a trip to Port Hadlock, Washington that we took yesterday.
Continue reading →Is It Safe?
As I wrote about earlier, we use Hulu for a lot of our television. It works great. We hardly notice its biggest drawback, the fact that television shows aren’t available for viewing on Hulu until they day after they air. … Continue reading →
Tall Ships in Port Townsend
The Lady Washington and the Hawaiian Chieftain are in Port Townsend. On Thursday we toured the Lady Washington. Today we watched from shore while the ships engaged in a mock battle.
Continue reading →Beautiful Mystery Bush
In the back of the house, where no one ever goes, I found this beautiful bush. I’m not sure what sort of a plant it is, but I’m very glad that I decided to take a walk behind the house.
Continue reading →Grey Gardens
Recently I watched Grey Gardens. It’s a disturbing, yet fascinating, documentary about “Big Edie” Bouvier Beale and her daughter, “Little Edie”. These relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis live in their dilapidated mansion named Grey Gardens. The documentary was filmed in … Continue reading →
TV in the Forest
When we lived in Bellevue we got our TV via satellite and watched it with the help of our very handy DVR. The picture was great. We had lots of channels. The DVR made watching and recording TV shows a … Continue reading →