Here is a different angle of the museum. The tall section is the part of the building that will house the Shenandoah. She is a 58 foot purse seiner that was donated to the museum by one of the local fishermen who was ready to retire, and would not have been able to find a buyer. The museum gladly accepted it and will move the boat into the shed and probably spend a gazillion dollars restoring it, using grant money and giving a shipright a steady job for the rest of his life, while he demonstrates how to repair wood boats.
This evening the Peninsula Youth Orchestra performed. I went down for a bit, listened to the youngest players play, then walked home to hear the rest from my deck. The crowd was a lot smaller tonight, probably because the weather has been threatening rain all afternoon. It did hold off though, and the kids played their hearts out. Most public schools don't have orchestras so those who want to play a string instrument find other places to make music. I play in a band and an orchestra, and there are good things about both. I attended a "band camp" for a week this summer, with a 100 people in the band, and boy oh boy, did we make a grand sound!!!
All but one of these gorgeous bathing beauties has passed away. The one on the left is the only one living and is 90 years old. They are all first generation Slav/Croation from the early fishing families in the harbor. The one on the right lived across the street from me for years, and her granddaughter found the picture in an album after she died. I only knew them later in their lives and it was fun getting a glimpse of them when they were young and so full of life.
I see a new house rising across the bay right next to the boat launch. There used to be a cool old house there that I had been in a couple times. So many of the older homes over there have been torn down and monstrosities have taken their places with just older couples with no children living in them. It seems all backwards!!!!
My niece and her sweety spent a few hours fishing on Flathead Lake in Montana a couple weeks ago. Guess which one caught that beauty. I was told that that specie was planted years ago and now they would like to rid the lake of them.
Two of my class of "58" friends and I took a short trip to Ocean Shores yesterday. We stayed in a Trendwest property. It wasn't mine as I know nothing about timeshares. We had a great view of the ocean and of all the little fishing boats that were out bobbing around early this morning. We took a long morning walk on the beach, climbed the giant rocks on the jetty that you see in the distance...without shoes mind you.... and as you see from the picture, left our mark in the sand on our way back. Our big reunion is only 8 days away. It seems as if the people I'd like most to see, wont be able to attend. Doesn't it always work that way!!!
A bunch of my old classmates and I gathered together yesterday afternoon with our cleaning supplies and scrubbed the seagull poop off the miles of deck railing. The owner has been nice enough to let us use his home for our 50th class reunion next week. It is on the water in the harbor, and has lots of space outdoors and in, for a great get together. There is an elevator for anyone who isn't able to climb the stairs. I am so glad I still can ....even two at a time if the mood strikes :o)
My friend and I took a drive to Astoria, Oregon yesterday. We drove south on I-5, then took the exit at Olympia that goes out to the coast. We stopped at our favorite place in Aberdeen/Hoquiam, a grungy little corner hotdog stand , then off down the coast we went. There were few cars on the road, maybe because of gas prices, or maybe there are always few cars waaaaaay out there. It was a nice drive, with both sharing the driving, and when we arrived in Astoria, the weather was warm and our hotel was very comfortable, right smack on the river, with a walking trail and trolley track no more than 20 feet from our door, being used by lots of people and their dogs. We dined at a restaurant on pilings over the river which used to be the Bumble Bee Cannery. No they didn't can bumble bees !!!!!! Probably salmon..that wonderful wild salmon that is so healthy and where I read that Astoria used to be the salmon canning capital of the world.
We spent quite a bit of time on the docks since dad was in charge of getting the ships loaded and unloaded. He was there when they first started shipping cargo in containers, like the one they are setting down. Before the containers, there were often boxes damaged either by accident or on purpose, which meant lots of candy bars. The only thing wrong with the candy bars from the OS and D's was that they sat in dad's office where he smoked cigars so you can imagine the added flavor.
