The Boat Shed & the new Manette Bridge

On Friday Fred and I went to a late lunch at the Boat Shed in Bremerton. We wanted a good view of the new Manette bridge. A vast improvement over the 80 year bridge that has served our city. By the time we finished the clouds rolled in and rained and rained. This was the beautiful sunlight when we started our lunch.

Fall Cleaning

We had to buy a new electric blanket this year. Installing made it obvious that I needed to vacuum out from behind the headboard.

Clinching cheeks here.

Thanksgiving decorations

This is my exerted effort to decorate this Thanksgiving Season. I have my Thanksgiving CLOTH tablecloth on the table, my pilgrims on the front door and what I call a napkin holder that Scott made for me in cub scouts with Kris Fry. Whew - I'm tired.

A nostalgic journey

The couple in the middle are the reason for our road trip to Spokane the last weekend in October. Annalisa & Ben were sealed in the Spokane Temple.

What makes it nostalgic is this is the Temple that our daughter Shannon and her husband Brian were sealed in on December 30, 2004
Unfortunately both Fred and I forgot our camera so we had to buy a disposable one at Wal Mart. It was hard to know if we were ever getting ourselves in the pictures. Kind of frustrating after perfecting our self portrait posing.

Lots of family photos were taken at this spot.

This is the bridge at Manito Park where Shannon & Brian had many wedding photos taken.

This is also the grounds where more photos were taken.

Despite the rain, I tried to recreate one of Shannon's poses here.

This photo is dedicated to Scott. Beginning the spring of his Freshman year, we traveled to Central Washington University for Scott to perform at State Solo & Ensemble. He qualified every year to compete. All four years on the tuba and the other three on the tenor saxophone. His senior year he placed 2nd on the sax. This is the music building.

That is the end of our Eastern Washington road trip.

the coolest thing

Strange you may be thinking.. but this was THE COOLEST thing ever. Yesterday I went to Seaport Salon & Spa to take advantage of my rewards $50 certificate for a spa treatment.....and added a paraffin dip to my manicure plus hot stone massage....they pull out this contraption and I was duly impressed. I always wonder how dirty the wax dips must be that they use at the "other" places I frequent....well this is a one time use paraffin dip machine. They have these hand shaped baggies with the wax in them that they put in this chamber, add some kind of heating pouch and then close it up. Soon it steaming like this picture. Remove the hand baggies and slip your hand in. .... TaDa instand melted paraffin CLEAN!!! never been touched by another human hand.

Let me add some particulars if you are interested... Spa manicure $32, hot stone massage additional $15 (not worth it), paraffin dip addidtion $15. Seaport Salon treats me like royalty...it's great. It helps that I go there monthly if not more to buy or get services. If you ever go, tell them I sent you!!!

My final project

This is the earring holder I made for a Relief Society project. Shannon shared this idea with me. I had to resort to PINK because it is simply the best color EVER!!!!!!!

Fall colors

I love the colors of the fall season. This is one of our new little lace leaf maples. We hope to get it planted one of these weekends in our front yard planter.