Kino bug

Love this picture of our guy. Compare to the one from Vietnam on right bottom.

Kino the budding musican

Wave video

I think I mentioned my wave obsession, well it seems I've figured out how to film with the camera...

Kino growing

Christmas week at the Inn was quiet - Washington - our side of the state was hit by an unusual amount of snow that lasted for weeks and kept piling up with storm after storm. Fun at first, but combined with the city of Seattle policy to not use salt on the roads became a long nightmare of washboard iced roads with cars, buses and SUV's strewn on the sides as people had to abandon them. We are not set up for snow and it becomes very clear during this type of crisis. NOw that it is over all the finger pointing has began which is almost as much fun.

At any rate...

Kino and I hit the beach daily for a dose of giant waves and wind and several times driving rain. He is such a trooper though, while I felt rather miserable with the rain pelting my face and glasses, he focused on the lincoln logs that had been tossed on the beach and climbed and rolled over and generally acted like the explorer he is. One day the sun was shining as we drove up and I saw waves crashing on and over the jetty - the waves were magnifient, coupled with extreme high tides and the barmetric pressure low caused the marina district of Westport to flood, tossed boulders over the jetty onto the road and stirred up a great deal of excitement in a certain three year old who delighted with all the adults and photographers who oohed and aahhed from the top of the observation tower as the waves threw spray at us up 3 stories - I admit to being a tad obsessed with capturing the essence of waves.

Janet and Jeff managed to crawl through the snow and come out on the 27th for a night as seen in the earlier post with the active balloon baseball game video clip.

But the biggest news of the end of the year besides Steve and Kino making it to cousin Kellan's 4th birthday party is that he has grown 1/2 inch in less than a month! Must be those Flintstone one a days, or the weather...

Holiday fun

Thought I'd try to add a video clip from last night of cafe balloon baseball featuring "Gadi", Kino, uncle Jeff and Auntie Janet...

More seasonal inn scapes...

Two story cottage (and horseshoe pit!).



Pre-snow.

Hosting the historic homes tour!

Weather threatened to disrupt this debut event. In the end it provided an exciting backdrop to the gathering that numbered about 40.






The performers captivated one audience member in particular.




This same audience member was magnetized also by some of the unusual items of apparel adorned in the group...




But first to coax them in to his grasp. This muff was a trophy. There was also some exquisite jewelry he enjoyed examining, to such a degree that he felt compelled to don one of his own swatch watches and parade accordingly.