What-What?! Week of August 13th

Yesterday, we spent the day moving around furniture, assembling furniture, and hacking at blackberry vines.  I found one blackberry vine had actually started to grow up underneath (!!!) the siding at the front of the house.

Today, I don't know what we're doing.  The husband and I need to work on costumes for an SCA event later this month.  So far, I have a shirt for him all ready to be sewn, but nothing for anyone else...  I don't even have fabric for the two boys.  But that's alright, 'cuz I still have over a week.

It also rained last night, which was actually nice because it's beaten a lot of the smoke and smog down.

It can go back to being sunny now.

...any minute.

What-What?! Week of August 6th

This weekend and last weekend we visited Kayak Point, which sits along the coast overlooking the sound.  It's got a nice beach, play ground, and some short trails.  Last weekend when we went, it was super hot and extremely busy; we parked at the top of the hill in the overflow parking and had to walk a ways down the trails to the beach.  We still had a good time.

Yesterday when we went, we came early in the day and brought a picnic lunch.  When we arrived, the tide was very low, so we got to investigate the tide pools.

This was last weekend -- you can see how clear it was.

The trails are very steep.

Yesterday -- there was lots of parking down by the beach, and we even got our own picnic table.

SEAWEEEEEEED!

You see how the sky is all grey?  That's not fog -- it's smog.  The air quality has been horrendous here, with winds pushing smoke down from wildfires in Canada, then that air getting trapped.  There's one little valley I drive through everyday going to work, and Thursday you couldn't look across the valley and see the hills on the other side.  I had never seen that before.

The husband climbed to the top of the rope climb-y thing, 'cuz he could.

Eatin' lunch -- hotdogs, chips, and grapes.  We cooked the hotdogs at home and packed them in a cooler to keep warm -- it was a good thing, too, since fires are not allowed right now.