A Mother's Day weekend visit to Colfax. Planning (still) the house remodel. Jim spending seemingly days under the house doing mysterious things like wiring (new sub-panel), cleaning (ever vacuumed your crawl space?) and getting ready to fix some posts that need shoring up. I've been- where else?- in the garden or reading northwest gardening books. Jim built an awesome raised bed from cedar-- we better have the best tomatoes in Kitsap County for the price of the wood! With the retaining wall finished, I started planting part of the front yard. Dogwood, Japanese maple, ceanothus, cotoneaster (2 kinds), and various other perennials. Yesterday we trekked all the way to Monroe (with a side trip to DD Meats and Trader Joe's of course) to fill the car to overflowing with plants- maybe the 30% I saved buying them from the growers paid for the ferry.
Jim is finishing up his class on website design at Olympic College. We are S_L_O_W_L_Y settling into a church.
And a great Viking Fest was had by all last weekend! Velkommen til Poulsbo.
