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 […]

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

We finally took down Christmas this evening…all the decorations, and the tree. We’d meant to do it weeks ago but hey! At least it’s done now. It’s been busy. Yeah. Also today, which was supposedly going to be a quiet, stay-in, get-things-done kind of day, we got a phone call from the jeweler so we