Potatoes!

To experiment with more container gardening, I planted a few potato “eyes” in pots awhile back. The plants grew rather quickly and within a couple months I was able to dig them up. The plant pictured below was taken only after a few weeks and ended up getting about 2 feet tall. I read online that you should only plant from seed potatoes because you risk disease from store bought ones. I bought one small red seed potato from a local food stand and from that one spud I got about 5lbs of potatoes! It was a fun experiment and pretty cheap too 🙂

August Blooms

Here’s what’s blooming in the garden now. The pink lily pictured is on a stalk taller than me! I never knew they could get so tall 🙂

Canoe Camping

Fair Fun

I try to visit the Northwest Washington Fair every August to see the farm animals and events. The last couple years I have gone with my friend Jessica and her son, Jimmy. This year, while walking around the animal barns, I noticed something about the pigs. The ones sleeping all had smiles on their faces, poor things, if only they knew their fate 🙂 A note on one of the pictures, the horse that looks like he’s being vacuumed is being vacuumed or “groomed,” whatever they call it these days 🙂

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A Few More

My Dad emailed more pictures, I think they are the last of our visit. These were taken near Mt Baker and the last photo was taken at The Beach Store Cafe on Lummi.

More Pictures

My Dad just emailed some of the pictures he took while here. The first eight are from the Logos picnic. The next couple are the scooters at the office and the last is our disc golf day. Todd was pretty fast at rock climbing, I was too embarrassed to try it 🙂

Mom & Dad’s Visit

I’m sad that my parents have left, but we had a great time site seeing and catching up. We packed a lot in during the four full days they were here, it was just too beautiful to sit around 🙂 My Dad took all the family photos with his camera which I forgot to download before they left. I’ll try to get them later.

We started the weekend with the Logos picnic at the beautiful Hovander Homestead Park in Ferndale. I love this place, mostly because of the gorgeous flowers and farm animals 🙂 The food was yummy too and it’s always fun to see Logos people! My parents came along to enjoy the scenery and to meet a few of our wonderful friends.

On Sunday we went to church and Mom & Dad got to meet our pastor and some of our friends there. We played disc golf and collected sea glass near downtown Bellingham. We then toured Todd’s office and played on the scooters there. I’ll try to get pictures from my Dad since I did not have my camera 🙂

Monday we headed up to Mount Baker because it was a beautiful, sunny day. We stopped along the way at Heliotrope Ridge and Nooksack Falls on the recommendation of our friend James. The views were spectacular from there! After that we drove to Artist Point to view lovely lakes and Mt. Baker from a different (closer) angle. On our way home we drove to Silver Lake and saw a bald eagle fishing and thousands of baby toads at the edge of the lake. The toads were making their transformation from leggy tadpoles into land living creatures. It was pretty cool to see, but easy to step on the little guys.

Tuesday, the last full day for my parents, we took a ferry to Lummi Island. Todd & I have been there before, but this time we explored a couple beaches and farms. One of the sites, Windy Hill Art Sculpture Park, was fun to explore. The sculptures are interactive but work best when it’s windy, we only had a slight breeze 🙂 We saw another bald eagle on our way home.

Pretty in Pink

I found this crab spider while trimming my roses the other day. What’s really neat is that its side stripe matched perfectly to the color of the rose it was living in (its easier to see if you click the photo). Quite pretty for a spider, don’t you think 🙂

I’ll be away for a few days…my parents are in town…yay!!!!