Logs, dogs, fish and family!
This was taken when I first moved my office up here. Before I had my desk and while the big cedars were still outside. Not too shabby of a view.
This was last week before they hauled the logs away. Try to imagine fruit trees and a garden. Actually, imagine an 8 ft. deer fence while you're at it!
Now go climb one of the imaginary fruit trees and look in. That's me in our upstairs bathroom showing off the new canopy eaves. The old window is in there now temporarily until the new ones are delivered. You have to special order brown aluminum! White vinyl would have looked pretty dumb. We need to stain those eaves soon.
Walking on the beach and looking just a smidge downriver, you can see someone's vehicle. Normally it's just a rapid, but the water level has been low lately. I'm sure there's a story behind that.
An annual event is the spawning of the salmon as they head up to Baker Lake - sockeye (reds), pink (humpies), coho (silvers), chum (dogs) and chinook (king). This one is the dead variety. There's also steelhead. We're just downstream of where the Baker meets the Skagit and local lore says we've purchased a good fishing spot!
Since there's two dams on the Baker River, the salmon can't get there from here anymore. Never fear, Puget Sound Energy provides them with deluxe transportation up to the lakes to complete their cycle. Later the smolts get trucked back down.
I took this photo down the Baker River from *under* the Baker Bridge one foggy morning. On the left is the fish taxi contraption. In the background is the Hwy 20 bridge.
This is why I was able to be *under* the bridge. I've been working on this enclosure project with the structural engineer. The bridge was built in 1917 so it's getting a little facelift.
Here's Annie lying in the periwinkles. You can't see that it's absolutely pouring down rain (wheelbarrow has 2" of water in it after 2 days of rain). This was taken the other day when she was limping on 2 legs and feeling a bit cruddy. She's torn her cruciate ligament in her rear leg last month and she also managed to hurt her opposite front shoulder somehow recently. Today she's feeling better and back to bouncing around on three legs.
Here's some of the whole famdamily on Keith's side! We have cousin Bryan from NJ, sis-in-law Amy, father Pat, brother Burton holding niece Faye, mother Pat, daughter-out-law Saara (me), and son Keith. He doesn't normally look so much like Tom Cruise, but I'll put up with that. ;)