Friday, May 18, 2018

New Flooring ... Done

We have finally finished our floors!!
Have a look
Hallway with the carpet
 Gone
New vinyl planks
Old carpet in the living room
 Gone
New floor
 Dining room with the old linoleum before carpet 
New floor partially done
Outdoor dining for four days
Luckily the weather cooperated
 Old bathroom linoleum before the oak look linoleum
Now the bathroom matches the rest of the floors
Top of the stairs looking down the hall with carpet
 Then the old linoleum on the landing at the front door
New flooring at the top of the stairs and the landing
 Looking down the hall toward the bathroom from the office
 New kitchen floors
And the view of the living room and dining room
The door into the garage at the bottom of the 
stairs looked a little drab
No More!!

Now for the base boards, never ending!!
Glad to be back together tho.






Monday, May 14, 2018

San Juan Islands

We rented a house in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island
Marci and Bruce came for three days.  Scott and Ruth for two,
and Mel, Gary, Walt, and me for the full week.
 The house was right on the water
 Friday Harbor Marina
 Marci, Bruce, Mel, Gary, Walt, and I went on a 
whale watching tour the first full day while Scott 
and Ruth explored the island
 It wasn't really whale watching season but we did 
happen on a couple humpbacks anyway
you can see one of them to the left of the boat on the right
 Two of the whales between the boats
 They moved around and came closer
 Even saw it spout a couple times
 The day was sort of overcast but the tour people
assured us that that was the best whale watching
weather





Spent some of the time learning about whales
Walt's holding the feathery tooth from the whales 
mouth that catches all the krill when they blow the
water out

 and closer
 Stopped by a small island with seals
 Almost looks tropical
 The evenings were spent enjoying the view and family
 Couldn't stay at the beach without oysters on the half shell
 The house had lots of windows
 Sunrise
During the dispute over the boundary of Canada and
the US concerning the San Juan Islands, the Americans
had a military camp on the southern tip of San Juan Island
and the English had a camp on the northern tip 


 We could see the Olympic Mtns
 The island was being over run by rabbits so they 
brought in fox
 He's waiting for a rabbit to come out of his hole

 No luck and off he went
 Lots of small islands out there
 Cattle Point Lighthouse at the southern tip of the island


Closer view
 Mount Baker
 Grama's Cove
 Lime Kiln Pt. State Park lighthouse on the west 
side of the island



 Hike up to the Lime Kilns




 English Camp wildlife
 English Camp in a nice little cove


 Watching ferries from the deck of the house
 Couldn't have asked for prettier weather 
We had some nice sunsets
 After Scott, Ruth, Marci and Bruce left Tom and Sherry
came up for the last part of the week
 A cruise ship came in one morning

 This seal is laying on a rock until the tide came all 
the way in and washed him off
 An eagle waiting for the little ducklings below
to be in a position to grab...no luck tho

The cruise ship left that evening around dinner time

 Went up to Roche Harbor after the weekend crowd left




Brothers

 Old kilns for making lime


Used to be the power for the harbor

 More oysters
Beautiful day on the beach 
 An otter found a crab and got up on the dock to eat it


 Sorry we had to leave, but a good send off with rain
The house from the ferry 
(Funny we didn't even see that big yellow house on 
the right from our house)

We had a great time with gorgeous weather and
fun family time!!



Since we were going to be in Anacortes after the trip
to the San Juan Islands I got in touch with my newly 
found second cousin on my dad's side.  Her dad is 93 and 
he joined us for lunch.  I met his mother (Grampa Mike's 
sister Rose) and father (Percy) while growing up but
never met him or his family.  Grama and Grampa had 
a picture of his daughter as a baby in their stuff so I checked
out Facebook to see if she was on.  Bingo!!

Me, Jennifer, and Byron
 Rose (Grampa Mike's sister)1920