Cousins

 Two of my grandchildren (Scoutie, Frank) at Naomi's recent wedding.  Scoutie almost 3, Frank 4.  They live far apart but I know that they talk about each other all the time and they were very happy to see each other.  Frank was to be Ring Bearer and Scoutie Flower Girl.  Mixed results from the preschool crowd but Naomi and Stephen are  still married!  Playing before the ceremony; pictures were being taken.

Greenery

Here's Matt and Frank at the creek down at the end of my short street.  One reason I was eager to move to Seattle all those years ago was that I wanted some place that was green all year long.  It is that here but all those dark days make me wonder sometimes.  I love to go to California where it is LIGHT.

When Ilana, Matt, Frank and Simon got here two weeks ago, they were all on Eastern time.  Since they got up early anyway, we're talking sub 4 am.  So they took some early morning trips.  Dennis is taking the picture here.  They hit the creek around 5 am. 

Naomi and Stephen wedding!

Congratulations to Naomi (my youngest) and Stephen on their marriage last weekend.  Beautiful weather and check out the view (Rose Hill Community Center in Mukilteo WA).  Everything (almost) went according to plan with lots of people helping out (especially Stephen's family).  Very happy for them.  Picture by my brother Charles Ginsburgh. 

Petroglyph

 Dennis and I recently went on a little trip to Lyle a small town on the Washington side of the Columbia River.  All the tourist stuff is on the Oregon side.  We've been there so we didn't go there.  Three nights in a tiny town, Lyle, has one small grocery store and one Chinese takeout place.  But we took the dog and found a place that was dog friendly.  Great backyard.

We went down the road to see what we could see.  Found Horse Thief Lake State Park that had a sign that said Native American Petroglyphs.  How could we miss that?  So lots of petroglyphs (example above) from around the area.  Displayed in conjunction with the local tribes.  

And we had the Columbia River.  And we had wind.  Lots of kite-boarding on the Columbia which we say later.

I made it to Folklife!

 

We didn't think it could be done.  But we did it, Dennis and I went to Folklife today.  Folklife is a large community driven festival of music, dance, participation and what all that takes place at Seattle Center on Memorial Day weekend.  We used to go all the time in times past until the crowds got to me.  But, when I went, I would always see something really worthwhile and inspiring and always unintended.  But we hadn't gone in several years, Dennis sometimes. 

But this year we attended something planned.  Our friend Pat who passed away on April 17 had always run the participatory international dance session.  This year, at this session there was going to be an announcement about Pat.  So we went.  We saw Marjory who was married to Pat.  And we even danced.

Then we went to see some other stuff and had some strawberry shortcake and polish sausage.  Saw some jamming and dancing.  And ended up at the Exhibit Hall watching some Balkan dancing.

I did really well, kept up with everything, walked here and there and generally had a good time.  It helped that the weather was pleasant and it wasn't too crowded early in the day.  Feeling really good about it.

Meet Millie

 Meet Millie.  Danny and Jessica's new baby.  She's about 10 weeks old.  A toy yorkie/poodle mix.  Can't see her to clearly.  They are taking very good care of her.  Picture taken at Naomi and Stephen's wedding shower.

Scoutie on a ferry ride

Last xmas Suzie asked us to give Scout an experiment present.  So we decided on a ferry ride.  And, a few weeks ago, we did it.  Not exactly how we planned but it worked great.  The original plan was to take Edmonds Kingston as walk ons, walk to the ice cream and crepe place, hang around and walk back onto the ferry.  But Megan needed to make a delivery on Bainbridge Island so we did it that way.  Fun stop at a garden store, then drive to Kingston and have the crepes, play in the park and drive back onto the ferry.  I think Scoutie liked it.  From the back of the ferry with Seattle in the background.

 

Picnic table is fixed

 Today, Danny came over to help Dennis fix the picnic table.  And it IS fixed.  They assure me that it is not going to collapse but maybe things aren't too straight and don't look too close.  Father and son time successfully fixing the picnic table.

Simon walks!

 A week or so ago, Simon age 14 months decided that he was going to walk.  All of a sudden.  He came home from daycare and he could walk!