FRIDAY AGAIN!

Where do the days go? I can't believe another week

has passed. We have been busy here and when the

weather looks like this for days on end the time

seems to just blend together--kind of like the 

movie Groundhog Day where Bill Murray

wakes up to the exact same day happening

over and over again...

We did have a touch of spring awhile ago and 

I thought maybe, just maybe, winter was

over. Kodiak, AK got 20 inches of snow this past

week and had their highway shut down. Denver

is in the middle of blizzards, Mississippi just

had a tornado pass through and North Dakota

is in the middle of record flooding. What a

chaotic winter this has been!

This what is looks like outside the end of March. Aren't

there supposed to crocuses and daffodils???

My daughter's school held their very first science fair

last week. This is her display "How Planets are Created"

She made it all herself--the planets are styrofoam balls

surrounded by brown sugar glued down.

I love that shirt she is wearing. It looks like cammo,

but if you look closely it is bears in different colors.

My niece was also part of the science fair and her display

proved that she could get a hard boiled egg into a

bottle without having to touch it. Dad helped with the 

part where you have to light the paper on fire. It

worked great and she said the egg "bibbled" as it

went down into the bottle.

I have windows in the new kitchen! This is where I will 

spend a lot of my time--I am so glad I have something 

beautiful to look at. I think this is where my sink will go.

I am still trying to figure out the best thing for the 

middle of the kitchen to be my long worktable. Costco 

carries the perfect sized stainless steel table for a great 

price, but they won't ship them here. I can have them 

shipped to my parent's in WA, but then how to get 

them here @49 lbs each...

Tearing out the old wall and support beam into the master

bedroom. The kitchen entrance is to the right. There was

a slight mishap with a beam during this process and the

BRAND NEW WINDOW to the right of my husband got

broken. Sigh. Oh well, thank goodness it wasn't a person

that fell through the window!

The Sitka Sound Herring Sac Roe Fishery opened this

week. Did any of you catch the show about this last week 

on National Geographic? My brother Keith had his name 

listed in the credits on TV--pretty cool! This is part of the 

fleet going by our house. I lost count at 60 boats.

 

The Humpback Whales are thick out there--everywhere 

you look there are whales, sea lions, eagles and seagulls 

gorging themselves on the herring. I was even fortunate 

enough to be looking out the window just as a pair of 

Killer Whales went by. That doesn't happen very often, 

what a treat to see them.

My younger daughter turned 12 on Wednesday.

She picked these colors and I made chocolate

cake with strawberry filling and matching

cupcakes. The flowers are edible, made from 

marshmallow fondant.

It seems to me like she was just

having her 2 year old birthday party!

Wow--I must be getting old.