Kjirstin Nicole

We took a drive to Westport a couple of days ago and of course headed right to the Kjirstin Nicole slip. Whenever a family member visits that little port town by the sea, we always have to check the old "Maria", the name we named her when my husband bought her,  to see if she's being well cared for. And she is. She started out as a commercial salmon seiner, but is now being used to fish tuna way out at sea. Her owner has taken good care of her so there should be many more years spent doing what she was built to do.   If I am correct, she started out as the Janice, then  the Tern, Coral Sea, Maria and Brian D before she became the Kjirstin Nicole.
For a change of topic...I thought this article was interesting.

Hummingbird

The girls found a stunned hummingbird in their garage. I haven't heard whether it survived or not, but I sure hope so. I have a bird feeder on my porch and love watching them eat.

Brothers

Jacob got to hold his baby brother the other day...I'm not sure if baby was trying to talk to his big bro or getting warmed up for a cry :o)

Seven already

Ingy is 7 today, but she started celebrating  yesterday with two of her friends with  a mini slumber party. Let's hope they saved some cake for us and that she is able to stay awake for today's party :o)

Edon Park

Edon Park used to be a sand and gravel company. Barges would come in at high tide to unload sand or gravel, then sail away before the tide left them high and dry. What was there has all been taken away and what is left is a wonderful place for people to play and  Jacob would have thrown every available rock into the water if I'd have let him stay long enough. How lucky we are to have  been planted in Gig Harbor :o)

New bulkhead

Now that the weather is warmer, Jacob and I went for a walk down to the waterfront to check out the bulkhead project. The new owner of the old Ivanovich home and dock is spending a ton of money redoing the old netshed and bulkhead. I can't think of a cooler place to live than in the shed, but I am sure once the stones are set in place along the shore, the old home will be redone, even more tastefully than the rest.

Different world

It's a different world than the one in which I grew up. The girls spent the night here so mama and daddy could attend a retirment party for a friend and in the "old days", they would have parked themselves in front of cartoons while waiting for granny to fix pancakes, but this morning it was an iPad for each, with Bergen doing what she does on hers, and Ingrid using mine to play the scrabble games that I play with her other grandmother. When I was their age, the only electric "toy" we had was a radio, filled to the brim with tubes,  which we listened to on Saturday morning or during the day to soap operas when sick, but only if our moms didn't know. Ingrid and Bergen are terrific readers so I guess these tech toys aren't harming that endeavor. All I can say is...I wonder what we will be doing ten years from now !!!!