A fine beginning to the week

Pedro (top, 3rd from left) with La Hacienda Family Restaurant staff

When I got to the Drop Zone in Snohomish on Sunday, the clouds were beginning to break up, but it still was not clear enough to skydive. Remember we can't jump through clouds. While waiting, I visited with these wonderful people who were all getting ready to make their first skydives ever. But what was even more impressive is Pedro was not only making his first skydive but also his very first airplane ride! He was going to get his feet off the ground for the first time AND jump out of the plane as well! I don't know how his skydive went, or what any of them thought of it, since they were just landing as I was going up with my own buddies. By the time I got back down, they had left. Peter had given me a keychain from his own restaurant in Renton and told me that although they don't have their own website, the one in Everett does, so I linked it under the picture. They were all so excited and I was just a bit sorry I didn't get to hear all about their experience.

Christy, birthday boy Kevin, and Linnie

I made two skydives on Sunday before heading home around 4:00pm, worried about the trip north with the I-5 bridge out. It was Kevin's birthday, the first time he's been able to make a jump on the exact day in years, so I was happy to have been on a jump with him. And of course Christy and Linnie are some of the best people in the world to play with. They stayed and probably made another three skydives after I left.

It was a good thing I left when I did, because the traffic around the bridge detour was horrendous. Next time I will try the alternate route. Sunday afternoon all the Canadians are heading home after being south of the border, and the short route (the one I took) had all the trucks on it as well. It added more than an extra half hour to the drive, making it more than two hours to get back to Bellingham. Going south at 10:00am was a breeze, only a few minutes longer than usual.

Bee busily buzzing the borage

This morning I went out to check my garden and water it, since the forecast shows no rain for the next week or so. Very nice to see such a forecast, and the bees were buzzing all around the flowers on the borage plant. You can see one in this picture if you enlarge and look in the bottom foreground. I'll try to get a better picture next time (he's not quite in focus). Several of the blue flowers have already fallen off the plant. I hope it's healthy; I gave it plenty of water and some Miracle-Gro.

From Wunderground

Although it says there is a 20% chance of rain on Friday, I am working on willing it to stay sunny. It says today will be partly cloudy, but there's not a cloud in the sky! All of us Pacific Northwesterners are ready to join the summer season. Some people say that summer doesn't start around here until July 5th, but I've been pleasantly surprised before.

I finished Jodi Picoult's latest book and started Eben Alexander's book Proof of Heaven today.  I had to tear myself away just to get this blog post written, it's extremely absorbing. It's interesting that I had six books on hold at the library for the past two months, and four of them came into the library all at once! I can't renew them, so I'll be sitting around with my nose in a book for the rest of this week, it seems. I would say when it rains... but I'm not even going to THINK rain for a while.
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