cassie b.....

born monday october 18th, 1976

at 9:00 a.m.

7lbs 14 1/2 oz

20 1/2 inches

your baby book says: reaction to the world?

I put "very accepting and quiet."

Thank you Cassie, for all the memories

that you have given to us since you were born....

you are an amazing, wonderful, loving,

unique, independent, intelligent, talented

young lady.......

our lives have been made so rich by having you for our daughter

sister and friend

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

we love you so,

your family

a little class, a little sass

i sent this invite to jamie last week

so we went to one of her favorite

sweet places for lunch

arcadia farms

it is so cozy and inviting

and has the most wonderful menu

yummmmm

and then we went shopping .

cuz a girl needs a new outfit

if she is going to new york.

so, in less than an hour

jamie had found this absolutely

darling dress and coat...

a little class, a little sass

just what you need .....

to see the broadway showing of.......

and what is an outing without dessert?

cheesecake factory here we come!

thanks for the sweet time, jamie

these feet

this is the "BJ Flyer"......

handcrafted by my dear husband in 1973

this is also a fairly "young" foot

this is the same foot...thirty four years later

after walking barefoot for years, chasing children

aerobics, kickboxing, dancing (sort of)

a couple 10K's

stubbing toes, climbing stairs, fracturing bones,

standing for hours as a teller and a new hire trainer........

and now after a year of training and walking my first 3-Day

and one more year of training........and soon my second 3-Day.

did you know
achilles, the greatest greek warrior hero

gave his name to the strongest tendon in the body.

the average person walks about 160,000 kilometres

in their lifetime, enought to walk around the earth 4 times.

each step can put up to 4 times your body weight through your feet

which adds up to a cumulative force of over 500 tons a day.

there are 26 bones in each foot,

a total of 52 bones in both the feet

there are 206 bones in the body

which means more than a quarter of all

our bones in our bodies are in our feet.

there are 33 joints in each foot

over 100 ligaments hold all the joints together in each foot

20 separate muscles work individually and together to move all of these joints

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

thank you feet, for the journey

i promise to give you some much needed

tlc.....soon!

clouds

did you know there is a cloud appreciation society?

i should definitely be a member

they quote John Ruskin with this:

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky.

It is the part of all creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more, for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere pleasing of man is not answered by every part of their organization; but every essential purpose of the sky might, as far as we know, be answered, if once in three days, or thereabouts, a great, ugly black rain cloud were brought up over the blue, and everything well watered, and so all left blue again till next time, with perhaps a film of morning and evening mist for dew. And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever placed, however far from other sources of interest or of beauty, has this doing for him constantly… the sky is for all; bright as it is, it is not “too bright, nor good, for human nature’s daily food,” it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, it is surely meant for the chief teacher of what is immortal in us, as it is the chief minister of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought.....

i do

i "talk" or pray looking to the clouds...i don't know why,

but it has always made me feel more like i'm being heard.

i "look" at clouds a lot.....and sometimes i think i see an "answer"

in the New English Bible , i looked up CLOUDS

it read

"a symbol of God's presence"

i love blue sky...

but i have always loved a cloudy day

it's comforting to me.....

morning rituals

finally......i can open the door and step outside and feel the

end of summer's harshness and the beginning of fall's promise.

I start my day here......

and yesterday......was rewarded with a gentle rain.

refreshing.

mini walker

meet the next generation walker for the 3-day!

already in training!

a little piece of heaven on earth

our sighting of Mt. Ranier from the air should have been

an indication of the beauty we were about to behold!

shnauzer crossing inn.....absolutely everything

a b&b should be !

his face tells it all!

leaving for his two days and a night sailing

this is where they anchored for the evening.

echo bay off sucia island

our transportation over to friday harbor

from anacortes.

our first sighting of friday harbor

our hotel......friday harbor historic inn

and our view........

we rented mopeds the next day to tour the entire island!!!

it was a blast! we started at 9:45 a.m. and turned them in at 5:00 p.m.

I think it is the only way to see the island!

the pelindaba lavender farm. smelled soooo good and tasted

good too! we had chocolate lavender ice cream.....yummm

this was our privilege to see all along our ride!

these orcas at lime kiln point were only about 50 yards away...

just amazing!

we ate lunch at roche harbor which is on the other end of the island.

beautiful place....so many flowers and so green!

we rented bicycles and took the ferry over to lopez island for the day.

we were told that lopez was FLAT.....yeah, right...but we

found a beautiful beach and i found my very first piece of sea glass.

i'm sure that means something.....just not sure what...yet!

my dear husband went back to the beach on our way back to the ferry

and got me a bottle of beach sand......he was saving my rear....bicycle seats are not meant to sit on!

what an amazing vacation. i loved every second of it.

and i know we will go back!