Cruisin from Ballard to the Lake and back

Do our smiles not say it all?

Afloat on the Lake

Lady Washington and Hawaiin Cheiftan

To get to see these tall ships maneuvering and firing mock cannon shots from water level is amazing.  Having been out on Lake Washington the last 2 Labor Day Weekends and getting to see this, it is just going to have to become a tradition, especially now that we can pull 2 people wakeboarding together. Fun!

Alaina and Andy

Collage making

Spring Break 2011 Long Beach Peninsula

Well here is my practice collage, photos from a few years back, but still fun memories of a short hike out to the beach, complete with a carcass, we were thinking racoon maybe.  We were down there for Earth Day and also removed quite a bit of debris from the beach on that day too.

Shilshole Marina

A few more collages I played around with today, I really like the Viking Art at Shilshole.

Little things I have made

Some pictures of things I have made out of cotton, felt, wool, stretchy nylon, sewn by hand and on a machine and needle felted and stuffed, trimmed and beaded.

Boating through Lake Union out to Lake Washington

Here are some random photos of picturesque scenes between the Ballard Locks and Lake Washington.

A banner to celebrate my first year of my blog

My new banner is one we nick named Pork Chop, for the eagle swooping down is going after our crab bait that was adrift, and yes, it was a freezer burner pork chop.  This eagle flew it back up to the trees there on the right for further examination and possibly lunch.  That is our favorite Mt Baker peeking in on the left.

We launched our full boat, me and my husband, both our daughters, our dog and our cat for a day of exploring, crabbing and fishing, out of Cornet Bay. I believe the first time I had been to Cornet Bay was when  I got to go camping with my favorite childhood friend Cathie and her family when we were about 11.

Memories flooded back, good times, and it was with Cathie's family and friends that I went camping for the first time. Cathie and her family have always made me feel like family and I just love them for that. We camped across from the state park, not at Camp Cornet, which is where my husband and even my mom went to Broadview's 6th grade camp. Cathie and I just got the day trip to Fort Casey in 6th grade.  Nowadays Parkwood sends their 6th graders to Camp Islandwood, over on Bainbridge Island.  I think that both our girls had fun over there.

I also remember boating this way with my brother and  grandparent's on the Moby Dick II, my Grampa Don's 1959, 35' Chris Craft.  What a beautiful wooden boat and did we have great times on that too!  My love for boating  started young, along with my husband, who actually went through Deception Pass on his grandparents boat!  Wild ride! We are so so lucky to be able to explore our beautiful Pacific Northwest, where should we go next?

Eric and I, Swinomish Slough 1984

Crab Happens

We launched at Shilshole yesterday and our fishing did not  compare with how well our crab pots did.  21 crab on the 21st of July!  With 4 keepers, we delivered 1 to my other mother to enjoy!

We got to see an Osprey with a larger fish than we caught, and only 1 harbor seal making me think we should have been fishing off Jeff-head instead.

Once the marine weather burned off, what a beautiful day.  Snow still on the Olympic Mountains, what a magnificent backdrop to a calm day on the water.

As for boating, it is never complete without a happening, such as the bearings in your boat trailer for example. Not only did they stink, so did the algae hatch in the Sound, between the two, stinkeeee, while working on that.  Enough said-Crab Happens!

What a feast!