Stunning
Do we really get to live here? Taken at 9:21 tonight on Turtleback Mountain. Thank you, Jude Nash, for permission to post this. Dreamy, fairytale, heavenly, speechless.
Month: June 2019
Creative Carte Blanche
I love when I am given complete freedom to create. I also love hearing the stories of missionaries; they are celebrities in my mind (along with doctors, teachers, etc.). The missions group at our church lets me design the mission board, and I have such a ball doing it. The …
How We Choose Our Mayor
We don’t have a human mayor here on Orcas Island. It can be a dog, a cat, a whale, a donkey, just about anything. Our current mayor is Tinker, a rabbit. (Lucky us, he’s our neighbor.) Soon, we islanders will choose a new honorary mayor by voting with our dollars, …
Children, Be Encouraged by Trump
Dear Children of the World, Be encouraged by our president. He is proof that you can do anything in the world that you want to do, regardless of how you choose to live. His life was not lived morally, and he now stands for truth and justice. His ego was …
A Pique at the Cirque
It’s now over, but thanks to Susan Slapin’s colorful photos, we can relive our locally-made Cirque-US a little bit longer…
A Very Island Birthday
I love that on Orcas Island, you can pick just about any stunning place to go on a beautiful day and you’ll be some of the only people there. Our younger one decided he wanted a birthday party in the woods. We planned plant-potting, woodsy-house-building, bouquet-making, scavenger hunting, and edible-plant …
I Can, So Should I?
I’ve been trained by my culture to be mindless. I’m retraining myself. Will you join me?… STORE BAGS About 10 or 12 years ago, I started bringing my own bags to the store. At first, I’d forget them in my trunk, wander the aisles, and remember to go back to …
A Day at the Zoo
It’s an all-day affair for an Orcas Islander to simply go to a doctor’s appointment on the mainland. Ferry line at 6:15, arrive in Anacortes at 8:15, drive to Burlington, Bellingham, or Seattle, then barely make it into Safeway before getting back in the ferry line for the voyage home. …
Freaking Awesome Cirque-US
WOW. I went to Cirque-US the other night at Orcas Center. Talk about DYNAMIC! Probably the best show I’ve ever seen here on Orcas Island. It was NONSTOP, BIG entertainment – WILD costumes, FABULOUS makeup, COOL freakiness, IMPRESSIVE choreography, and people stepping out of their comfort zones to do AMAZING …
I Miss Affordable Muffins
There are a lot of sources of goodies here on the island – a lot – but one thing we lack is a little, affordable bakery with good muffins, cookies, and donuts. People often open businesses here that you just know will go under within months. Tragically, we watch it …
