Life in the slow lane

Summer time and the livin’ is easy (and very slow). This is not because of the heat but because of the rain, most here are hunkered down inside, staying warm and dry. If you are where it is hot, you stay inside with the A/C on, here, the fireplace is king.

Folks around here are in no hurry to do anything, a bit like molasses in January. CB and I have recorded our best blood pressure readings in years, it is kinda like being in hibernation. It is so nice to crawl into a soft bed, pull up the down comforter and snuggle together. We have been sleeping like that for 8-9  hours every night, Cara too. The quiet here is total save for the rain drops tapping on the roof, such a soothing sound.

Temperatures here are in the 50’s at night and the 60’s during the day. All that rain makes for lots of green, and leaves the air smelling clean. It hasn’t rained so long that we can’t get out and walk, it is totally flat so it is perfect.

There are no fast food places anywhere, but lots of neat little places with great food. Downtown’s buildings are just as they were a century ago, only the wares have changed.

 Built along the ocean makes for a backdrop of sailboats hoisting brightly colored sails billowing in the wind, against the greenish blue of Admiralty Inlet, which is the inlet to Puget Sound. The MV Chetzemoka (named after an Indian Chief), is one of the new ferries in the Washington State Ferry System and can be seen coming and going not far away. If you are very lucky, you may get a glimpse of a monstrous black steel hull rising from the deep, one of the several nuclear submarines that call Puget Sound their home. The other black thing you may see rising from the deep would be killer whales, always an amazing sight. Many sightseeing boats take people out to view them up and close, the crew can tell the names of each whale due to their markings, and which pod (family group) they are with; we have been and will be going again.