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Home grown

It’s very satisfying to go out into the garden and pick vegetables for dinner. This year’s garden is providing plenty. Sugar pea pods, above, thrive in our climate.

Lettuce also grows well here. I’ve been able to share this year’s bounty with others.

We’re growing two kinds of beets. This is a red ace, a classic red beet. We also have candy stripe, a white beet with red stripes. Fresh home grown beets are sweet and delicious; the greens, cooked like chard, are a bonus.

We’re also enjoying kale. This year’s garden additionally includes leeks, red onions, cherry tomatoes, and delicata squash. Scarlet runner beans are coming along nicely, visited regularly by local hummingbirds that like their bright red blossoms.

Here and gone

A cute little tree swallow called one of our bird houses home recently. Here it is, waiting for a meal not long before it fledged and left its temporary home.

Looking north

This is a view from the bluff area of Dungeness Recreation Area, looking just east of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

The pandemic has halted travel into Canada until at least July 21st. As Covid cases continue to break records in the U.S. it’s not likely that our northern border will reopen anytime soon.

Testing

The Boeing 737 Max plane went on some test flights in the skies over the Olympic Peninsula recently. That’s the aircraft that was grounded after two deadly crashes caused by faulty equipment.

Boeing hopes to get the 737 Max back into production and into the skies again. I wish them luck but admit to being skittish about watching it fly over my hometown.

Politicized

Like many other things in the U.S. these days, wearing a mask for some has somehow become political expression. It’s ironic. We are required to wear seatbelts in our cars, helmets on motorcycles. Yet some object to a simple item that helps prevent the spread of a deadly virus.

Heaven help us. Science has become not a search for truth but a matter of opinion.

Hello, Hadley

We had another visit with Hadley, the pup our local Guide Dogs for the Blind puppy raisers is training. Hadley was 10 months in this shot, taken last month.

I first introduced you to Hadley last November here. We have spent time with her over the past half year or so as she’s navigated her training as a potential guide dog, here and here.

Puppies in training for Guide Dogs for the Blind have been sheltering in place during the pandemic, some remaining with their raisers beyond the time when they would normally be recalled for formal training as a guide dog. Guide Dogs is now slowly reestablishing normal operations. If all goes as planned, Hadley may return to Guide Dogs this fall at around 14 months of age.

Back to blogging

I’m back again. I’ll admit it: it was nice to be undisciplined and not blog for a while. But, in truth, that’s the story of life in the days of a pandemic, isn’t it?

Really…are you getting any of those rainy day projects done? You know, cleaning out a closet or garage? Journaling? Archiving photos? Updating your computer? Writing letters?

I envy the artists and others who are undertaking wonderful projects, completing admirable goals. I’ve not gotten much further than congratulating myself if I make a well balanced dinner.