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Wednesday’s Thought?
Oh help me. How can it be Weds already? Time is galloping. Has it been two years since Emilia was born literally the day before the pandemic began in earnest here? Yes. Now look ... If it makes any difference, I do talk to you a lot. I have all kinds of stuff to...
Shark Update
Well, as you can imagine there was high excitement on the beach yesterday ( and lots of spring sunshine ) what with a shark and all. Bears, moose, wolves, coyotes, seals, sea-lions, hawks, eagles-- these are all normal visitors, but a shark? Turns out it was a pacific...
Cue the Jaws Music
Here's what Forte and I found this morning on our walk... Cue the jaws music. It is a shark, about eight feet long. The blood is from the ravens and eagles picking on it. (It is quite dead.) Chip said, "can we eat the steaks?" and I said no. We think it may be a...
Rob’s Blooming Good Idea
Willa Cather wrote that winter hangs on too long in country towns-- "until it is stale and shabby,old and sullen." Which pretty sums up the mood around here, although yesterday's 29 degrees sure felt balmy. March makes me completely manic. One minute I'm sure I'll...
Hospice Gifts
The good thing about having forty people over for dinner is that it makes you clean the house, and after all winter mine could use it. I mean, it looked okay, but a white glove test would not be good (it still won't) thanks to the wood stove, and to the glacier dust...
The Good in Being Kind.
At Roger Potter's funeral Saturday in the Port Chilkoot Bible Church we sang old fashioned hymns, "What a Friend we Have in Jesus," "I'll Fly Away," and of course, "Amazing Grace." (Read his obituary here.) But before the service started we listened to a recording of...
Sunday’s Thought
From Rose Macaulay- "Only one hour in a the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning. "