Kurt tours San Francisco

Such a deal!  Joanie was in San Francisco -working- and Kurt came along for a little vacation.  He spent Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday touring all over the city using a cable car pass.

Here is Lombard Street- the crookedest street -

He went to Fisherman's Wharf every day- had a crab cocktail and said hello to the sea lions....

Alcatraz Island - taken from a park along the shore

And looking the other direction at the park this is what you see- Golden Gate Bridge

Riding the cable car

He walked down Lombard street and took this picture at the bottom.

Our hotel is the building in the middle of this picture. It was very nice- we were on the 27th floor so had amazing views of the city.  It was located 1 block from BART, a cable car stop and Union Square.

We did get to do a little socializing in the evening.  On Wed night we met up with Calvin and Eunice Jones.  Kurt and Calvin were team mates

at the UW. 

And finally on Friday my work was done and we got to do a little sightseeing together.  We toured China town and ate lunch.  Later we went our separate ways for the trip home.  Joanie left from SFO and Kurt was flying out of Oakland.  We met up in Spokane and arrived home at midnight!

OH Joy! The grandkids are here!

Busy busy, but so much fun. We have been to the beach, to feed Silver the horse and just hanging out together.

Kurt's first wood working project comes indoors

Kurt is practicing to  build new kitchen cabinets-here is his first practice piece- a stand for the TV. Pretty cool, huh!

Preparations for a grandson visit

Water anyone?

What a gorgeous day!  Sunshine all day- FINALLY!  It has been grey and gloomy for weeks.  Started the day with coffee in the hot tub. 

In the afternoon we went on a walk and tried our hand at dousing for water.  Kurt has a better sense of it than I do.  Here he is with the two rods- both parallel- meaning no water here........

A few steps later the rods crossed themselves.....this is an indication of water nearby. 

We also stopped by to vist our pet horse, Silver.  She knew we would be bringing her a carrot, so she was waiting for us.

A burning weekend

We burned two big slash piles this weekend.  Here are some pictures- the "before" pictures and the "after" pictures.  As Kurt says....now we know the real cause of global warming- it is allowing Joanie to have matches!

early morning ferry ride

Jeff is alive and well!

Here we are walking on the Dungeness River Dike with Jeff and Su. As you can see, Jeff is alive and well following his heart attack 9 weeks ago

Eagles still amaze me- we walked right under this tree

Not so exciting- but still unusual to run into a herd of donkeys on the dike.

Also a long the dike - a 3-sided cabin that was once a tv pilot scenery

and a couple shots of happy Tucker

A trip to the Washington coast

Here we are driving to Long Beach WA- in a POURING RAIN STORM on Friday morning.........

Who knew that 24 hours later we could be driving north on Hwy 101 and be in sunshine......

here are the rocks at Ruby Beach

and this was an interesting tree...

A walk in the snow at Sherman Pass

We took another hike at Sherman Pass (5200' elevation) today. It was beautiful.

Tim and Kathy joined us

Here is Joanie

and here is Kurt