Every now and then on a special occasion, our church invites Dr. Stephen Newby of Seattle Pacific University to Orcas Island to fashion a choir out of us average Joes. He’s incredible. This past weekend, our church celebrated a 50-year Jubilee in its present location (and 134 years on Orcas …
One of the big surprises when we were deciding to move here was the Community Church. We’ll never forget the first time we attended it as tourists. It was unlike any church experience. A fairly small church; a fairly small congregation compared to the one thousand or so that we …
One of my favorite simple pleasures is picking fruit off of trees and eating it. We’re like bears when the blackberries are in season. We just picked our first bowls full this morning. For most of the year, the bushes are a thorny nuisance, but worth it to me for …
Every summer has its own flavor. One summer we built lots of makeshift rafts out of driftwood and paddled out to Indian Island. Some summers our kids did lots of fun camps. Other summers we hiked a lot. This summer we’ve been going to the lake over and over. We …
It isn’t just people who get here by boat. Sometimes it’s their house too. This company brought the boat to North Beach at 9 PM with the plan to work all night getting it off the barge, on a mega-trailer, and transported up to its new home street. It can …
Before we moved to Orcas Island, one of the first things we Googled was summer activities for kids. We found a few websites but wished we could find a one-stop site that listed everything. Since moving here six years ago, our kids have done some of the most interesting camps …
