Monday - Friday, August 12-16, 2013 (Camano Island, WA)

Monday - Thursday

Monday morning Brandon & Kris and the boys packed up and headed off for very much deserved two week vacation. 

We spent the rest of the day painting.  I worked on gutters and trim and Rich worked on the shop.  There sure are an awful lot of cracks in the siding that have to be painted before you can roll the rest of the siding and it takes a long time. 

Tuesday & Wednesday

Was pretty much spent painting.  The kids have 3 chickens, so our fun for the day was checking to see if the hens had laid any eggs.  They are still young hens, so sometimes they lay eggs that are soft shelled and no good, so we usually get two good eggs a day and sometimes three.  I think they miss the boys because they let them out of their pen in the morning to run around all day, plus they pick them up and carry them around - well that isn't happening with us, can you see me packing around a chicken? I bet the chickens will be very glad when the boys get back home.   

Thursday

During our morning jog routine, as we were starting out from the 5er we saw a BIG coyote cross the road in front of us.  I had forgotten how big they are and how stealthy they can move, it was kind of eerie.  It made me glad that we are keeping the chickens penned up. 

It turned out to be a dreary and gray day with sprinkles here and there so we decided to take a break from painting and go to Mt. Vernon and do some grocery/Costco shopping.  Our shopping trip was pretty uneventful, though the drive to Mt. Vernon through the farming country is sure pretty.  We picked up a couple $5 movies at Walmart, so after we got home and things put away, we watched one of the movies - Catch & Release with Jennifer Garner, it was an older one and was OK. 

Friday

We spent the morning painting, or rather Rich did.  I did some watering of some fruit trees and grapes and just general puttering around.  We quit around 1:00 to get ready to go to LaConner for dinner to celebrate our 12th anniversary.  Our actual anniversary isn't until Saturday, the 17th, but we are headed down to Jeff and Sabrina's to spend the night and attend church with them.  Jeff is also a pastor and we have never heard him speak in person, only via the internet. 

It turned out to be a lovely afternoon and the weather was just perfect.  It was a nice warm 79 degrees once we got to LaConner.  The drive through farm country was pretty.  They grow alot of potatoes and corn in this area.  We got to LaConner early enough to spend some time walking around the town - it was very quaint and touristy.  Here are a bunch of photo's of our afternoon/evening.

There is a historic district in La Conner with some pretty cool houses.  Since we've been painting lately, we noticed the paint jobs and some of them were pretty intricate and/or interesting.

The shingles in the peaks were amazing, talk about a time consuming paint job

This house was huge, we liked the widows walk on top, which is kind of hard to see in the picture

This was an interesting and vibrant color scheme, orange, green and purple (check out the shutters and also the front door)  I guess it would cheer you up on those rainy gray days

Street view of some of the tourist shops, they had a lot of art galleries

Antique store

View from marina



This waterfall feature was part of the dock - pretty fancy



More boats - it was a very picturesque town

Our view from our outdoor dinner table

We had a delicious meal, Rich had prime rib and pan fried oysters, the best he's eaten in a long while.  I had firecracker prawns which were very good, but not spicy like the name implies, but I would definitely order them again.  We got to sit there in the nice warm sunshine and watch different boats go up and down the water while we enjoyed our dinner.  Ahhh life is good, especially when seated next to your love.