Entries from July 2006

July 27, 2006

San Juan Islands: Roche Harbor, A Lighthouse and a Naked Fish Woman

Mary at the Anacortes Ferry Dock
The Hotel De Haro, the centerpiece of Roche Harbor. It sits behind a manicured garden and is surrounded by restaurants, a shop and some condos.–>

A historic church in Roche Harbor, framed by the crimson branches of a Madrona tree.

In Roche Harbor, we visited a 17 acre sculpture garden. Here [...]

July 24, 2006

The San Juan Islands

A view of Mt Baker from the Anacortes ferry dock.

This past week, Mary and I took our long-awaited vacation up north to the picturesque San Juan Islands.Over the next few days, I’ll be posting snapshots from our trip, and will put more pictures on my photobucket album. The pictures featured here will be from our [...]

July 22, 2006

Sweatin’

As of now (10:15am), it is 83 degrees outside under overcast skies. The mercury is supposed to top out at around 100 again today.
Inside our AC-deprived house, fans are whirring and the temp is 82 degrees. We are thinkin’ we should’ve stayed up in the 70 degree San Juan Islands an extra day.
Anyone have any [...]

July 21, 2006

My Return to Cyberspace

Mary and I just got home after a 5 day trip to the San Juans. We’ve spent most of the last 12 hours today sitting on a ferry, fuming in traffic jams and rocketing down Interstate 5.
I have not seen a computer (aside from my iPod), or seen a television in the last 5 days. [...]

July 12, 2006

More Fun with Gasoline…

My lawnmower post inspired me to share with you another bad experience I had with gasoline:
When I was a teenager, I spent my summers shoveling concrete for my dad’s concrete construction business. As the youngest member of the crew, and the boss’s kid, the foreman would revel in telling me to do the menial tasks [...]

July 12, 2006

Don’t Ever…

..get gasoline in your eye. It stings, it hurts and it was an omen of things to come for me the other day.
A few days ago, I decided to mow the lawn. Not a big deal, as I try to do it once a week or as necessary during summer. On a typical day, there [...]

July 2, 2006

Superman Returns..Hell yah!

I’m SOOO glad that Fandango was wrong.
I was planning to take Mary to see “The Break-Up”…but it wasn’t playing at the theater we went to.
Plan B? — Superman Returns (I was planning to see it anyway)..
Superman Returns was the most entertaining movie I’ve seen all year. I think it resonates most greatly with people [...]