After a quiet week of workity-work around here, tomorrow more guests arrive–we’re all booked up for the weekend. One of the bookings is friends of ours so that will be nice! Folks we haven’t seen in rather to long. They’re bringing a dog and a CAT. (The inn is pet-friendly, and we’ve had tons of […]
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After going about my business for a while today, I decided to try again on the ole get-hold-of-health-care-humans thing. I also started a new business renting an old house that was from my parents, but to be safe I read this article about Renters Insurance: How Pennies a Day Can Save You Thousands. I managed
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I’m not terribly political and this is not a blog about current events or political stuff because I’m just not a news junkie and frankly I don’t pay much attention but… And yet I’m reasonably intelligent and kinda sorta informed about what’s going on around me and am hyper-organized and on top of finances and
The regular work-week rhythm gets all topsy-turvy when you run an inn on a vacation getaway island, I’m realizing, now that the holidays are done (when everything was topsy-turvy all the time). We had a spate of delightful guests this weekend, including our friend B. who drove up from Portland (and brought our MAIL) (and
The other day, Stina posted about playing “Asshole,” a card game our friends Camille and Claude taught us. It’s super duper fun, but it takes four (exactly four) people, so we haven’t played it in a while, because mostly these days we are just two, at least when it comes to game-playing time. (Or way
So it turns out that you can, for free, take the inter-island ferry between all the San Juan Islands that the ferry serves (which is four) (which is not all the San Juan Islands that there are) (which is a hundred and seventy-two). You do, as it turns out, go past some of the islands
I’m blogging at Book View Cafe today–check it out! (Yeah, they gave me the keys to the blog. I guess I’m really in!) 🙂
Suddenly we are realizing that we have less than a month left here on the island, before we return to Portland! And it seemed like such a looooong winter ahead of us, when we got here. The time, yes, it has flown. Of course, we’ve had way more inn guests than anyone anticipated. Which is
Once a month, the local community hall here hosts a potluck dinner. Tonight was the night. And there was live entertainment! JP and the OK Rhythm Boys played an all-too-short set. Here is one of the Rhythm Boys. And yes, she called herself that, when introducing a song. She’s playing a saw, though you can’t
That weird bright thing came out in the sky today, for the first time in a while. So, of course, we got a lot of work done indoors, but we also went outside for a hike up Turtleback Ridge. Before that, I gave Mark a little token help on his woodpile, then made him pose