PRAISING GOD

Well, folks I just talked to my mom and she

was pronounced in remission and cancer

free yesterday! Thank you so much to

everyone for their prayers and thoughts

during this last year. She will go back

on July 20th for another check up and

then she is O.K. to take a trip up here

to visit everyone.

In the beginning it is difficult to think

ahead to a positive end result, but she

has worked really hard at taking care

of herself, following the doctor's orders

and keeping a positive attitude. God

hears the prayers of His people and

we are so grateful for His intervention.

The weather has been really nice this

spring and now beginning of summer

so we have been working in the yard,

going on the boat and hiking a bit.

One of the cool plants we saw over on

a short hike:

Makes you want to just grab ahold and run your hand

down it, doesn't it--yeesh.

Our Golden Chain was gorgeous this year with all

of the sun we have had. My husband almost murdered

it last year by building a fire too close to it, but it

seems to have recovered nicely even if it is

leaning a little to the right.

The Coast Guard has been busy out in front of our house:

We went out to Camp Coogan for my husband to look

at a repair to a boathouse. These boats have seen

better days.

We went in one of the back bays and found my

dream house. Click the picture to make large:

I don't think I would ever go to town except for groceries.

Can you even imagine living here? The lady that owns the

floathouse we were looking at said when they got there

in the morning there was a sow with 2 cubs walking

on the beach next to the house and when they woke

up in the morning there was a huge male grizzly

walking along the meadow.

Back at the harbor "Spot" was sitting in the tree

watching us get the boat ready to leave. Check

out all the pinecones on that tree! If I could only

find a recipe to use them in...

My husband went out with a friend to check his

halibut skate. Look what was hooked:

He said the mouth had 2 large teeth like a

parrot and the body is shaped like a shark.

Look at the size of the eyeball! It didn't

have regular scales, they were more like

plated armour. Weird.

Then they had this hooked on there:

A skate. Can you even imagine what is living out there

in those billions of gallons of salt water?

So then this went floating by our house:

This is the mega-yacht Turmoil. I looked it up online

and it is one of the largest yachts in the world. Those

are islands behind it and it makes the islands look small.

It was in the harbor all week and it dwarfed anything

else there except the Coast Guard cutter. The front

has 4 regular sized boats on it and there is a

helicopter in the back under it's own cover.

I read online that the owner took possession of it and

then died a few months later so his family uses it to

sail around the world. He was the man that started

the clothing company Land's End.

Lotsa cakes to do and cookies to bake, so I better

go get the ovens fired up!