First, what do you think of my photo of our "visitor" in the last posting??? Two of these beautiful Owls flew in together and one of them landed on the tree right next to our coach...lucky break.
19 June ‘08
Thursday
We called Bonnie and Doug last week to see what they had been up to in Mount Vernon, but when Doug answered the phone I found out that he was in Cabo San Jose. Apparently he has found a way to take his “house phone” to Mexico and still receive the calls that are directed to their home here. They are getting to the finishing touches on their new condo down there so he went back to make sure all goes well and make sure they don’t find any unwanted surprises when they go back this next winter. I finally got a hold of Bon through her cell phone so we kind of invited ourselves up for a couple of days It worked out great because Doug decided to fly home tonight as well. About 9 we all headed out for Sea-Tac to save Doug from having to take a 3 hour bus ride home. Friday we just kind of played it easy, enjoyed their beautiful yard,
Thursday
We called Bonnie and Doug last week to see what they had been up to in Mount Vernon, but when Doug answered the phone I found out that he was in Cabo San Jose. Apparently he has found a way to take his “house phone” to Mexico and still receive the calls that are directed to their home here. They are getting to the finishing touches on their new condo down there so he went back to make sure all goes well and make sure they don’t find any unwanted surprises when they go back this next winter. I finally got a hold of Bon through her cell phone so we kind of invited ourselves up for a couple of days It worked out great because Doug decided to fly home tonight as well. About 9 we all headed out for Sea-Tac to save Doug from having to take a 3 hour bus ride home. Friday we just kind of played it easy, enjoyed their beautiful yard,
had a spectacular Salmon barbeque.
Saturday morning Doug and I took the kayak out for a paddle in Clear Lake. Clear Lake is located just northeast of Mount Vernon, or about 5 miles from their home. What a perfect day for a paddle and what a perfect lake to do it on… Apparently Clear Lake was used as a staging area for the logging that was prevalent in this area many years ago. On the shoreline, there was this large stone circular wall that stood about 6 feet high. This was apparently used as the foundation for a wood smelter. Then there were the hundreds (well maybe not hundreds, but a lot…) of log pilings in the lake. I believe these were to hold the logs that were brought down from the heavily forested hills all around the lake…well that’s my guess anyway. Saturday night we took in a movie. Quite honesty I don’t remember the name of it, but it was about a young couple and a single man that were caught up in an illegal immigration bust…it was a great movie and a great subject for this time in our lives.