We had a nice long weekend. Dom and Kelsie drove down to see us. They arrived on Friday night with new board games to play with Maddie. Both are well, happy to have their jobs and doing well with them. We heard about the chickens, the guinea pigs, their huge strawberries (growing in biosolids), and plans for possibly a lawn. Sorry, failed in the picture taking department. Saturday morning Jim worked on the garden, hoeing and rototilling (Thanks Diana, Dom got it working) all the rows. The peas had to be weeded by hand. Thinned the radishes and so got a first crop of those. Then watered the tomatoes, and watered the rest with the big garden spayer. You know, thid thid thid thid thid chish chish chish chish. By Monday, it all looked pretty happy. The unexpected this over the weekend was a pretty good car deal developed up in Seattle for a car for Miesha. Well, Jim Amtrak trained up to Renton. Love the US train system, 1 hour late, of course, but what a great ride. Beautiful with some views of Puget Sound, and so nice to leave the driving to someone else. Got off at Mulkleteo.
Miesha met me at the Amtrak, with the car salesman and the car! She had waited a while with him, so knew everything about the car was really liked it. It is a rental return with 28,000 miles or so, a 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt. Lots of good features; cruise, full airbags, On-Star, Radio-CD (the most important), a rear spoiler, and gets up to 34 mpg. She signed on the dotted line and, well, a picture is worth a thousand words. We drove it up to Bellingham then. I stayed the night and drove "Dinky", the Smart, home the next morning. Yes, see? That's why I took the train.
Sorry Dom and Kelsie, that I wasn't able to do anything with you guys, and I got back just after you left I guess. I hope you had a good time. Mom said the barbecue steak supper was good on Saturday evening. I guess you went to Powells. And Dom, thanks for helping out with that Fax, the backyard mowing, and all the great pruning you did on the grapes. They look great.
We heard from Mara and Patrick. They are now in Norfolk, and their stuff arrived there too on Monday. Buying some new furniture soon. We are so happy for them as they start their new life, "... in the Navy."
Well, have a good week everyone.
After WWU graduation on Saturday, June 13th, Miesha and I (Dad) got into her 2008 Cobalt packed to the gills with her stuff, and drove the 2200 miles across the norther tier states to Chicago, Illinois. There she starts immediately with Teach For America. Check out Miesha's blog for all the details. To the right is graduation, with Vanessa (who also graduated) and Jenny (who is a year away). Below is the view of her dorm at the Illinois Institute of Technology (say IT really slowly). Look carefully, she's up there in the window.
Move in day, all the stuff on the bed. Below is after she got all her stuff in the room she realized she put it all on the wrong bed, so naturally , we switched the signs on the door.
