A stick for Show & Tell
Sometimes things just present themselves. My grandson, Joshua, needed something for show and tell at his school. He couldn’t think of anything he wanted to show. Truth be told, he really didn’t want to (Read More)
Category: Good Memories
Summer 2014: Roche Harbor
Willie and I had a great trip to Roche Harbor on San Juan Island.
Summer 2014: Sailing home
Last Summer while sailing home past Patos Island I grabbed a few shots of the lighthouse. On the way an old seal checked out the boat.
Summer 2014: Sucia Island
Here’s a few early morning photos taken during our sail to Sucia Island in Puget Sound: The water on the way to Sucia looked like mercury.
Damn bees
My son and I had a Father/Son cruise to Sucia and Patos Islands this weekend. When we arrived at Sucia all the buoys were taken. I was going to hook up on the rope (Read More)
Anchored together again
This weekend my wife and I didn’t sail on any long trips. We anchored just a half mile out of home port in a bay called Drayton Harbor. We did this both days, Saturday (Read More)
Friends
Yesterday we had a short visit with good friends. They live in another state so we only see them when they travel north. That means a lot of years between times. It seems though (Read More)
My daughter gave my Mom back to me
Note: I found a post from an old blog I had. It is about my mother and a wonderful post my daughter wrote in her own blog. My mother was more to me than (Read More)
Dad
A boy in Saskatchewan, teenager in Lynden, Army Air Corps gunner in North Africa, prisoner in Germany, and adoptive father in Birch Bay. These were the passages of the man resting in Hillsdale Cemetery. (Read More)
Captain Guy Smith
We recently attended a ceremony where our son, firefighter Guy Smith, officially received his title of Captain. He was promoted to full captain a year ago and has now completed his probationary period. He (Read More)
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