Colors

Other than some of the cold days I think Fall is my favorite season. The colors are beautiful, the sun is always a welcome sight and the fall treats are yummy. The other day I went to the Farmer's Market in Bellingham with my friend Amanda and Natalie and I was so disappointed I did not have my camera. I did however capture some pics with my cell phone that I can share.

Broccoli.... Isn't is beatiful?

Love the colors!!!

See why I wish I had my camera? There were some great opportunities for some really good pictures. I absolutly love going to the market.

I have been out working in the yard since we have had some sunshine and was able to snap a couple of other fallish pictures to share.


This is called a Tiger Eye Tree. I can't wait for it to get much bigger!



Again, beautiful colors!

My Pampas grass actually got its tufts this year!

I was out weeding this morning early because I found it is easier to pull weeds when the ground is wet. I don't know why someone didn't tell me this sooner but the roots come up with the weed and you are not digging around trying to get the rest of the root when they break off. Anyway, this is a new plant to our yard that was given to us by someone Will worked with. I loved the dew on it this morning hence the photo session. If anyone knows what this plant is I am looking for more because it is a favorite!

If you look close you can see my shadow in the big droplets.



Love the red and orange together with the berries.

Hope you enjoyed the fall colors as much as I did. Stay warm, enjoy fall treats, cheers and until next time!

JET

Spoooooooky!

My holiday decorating always starts with a vision, but doesn't necessarily end up how I pictured it. I am not a huge Halloween fan, but for some reason this year I decided I wanted to bring out my inner Martha. Unfortunately, my pictures are not very good. It is very cute or should I say "spoooooky" in person, but you will get the gist.

Watch out for spiders!!!

 Last Christmas mom found some very pretty black Christmas balls, which I had bought for my tree in Seattle. I decided I would use them as part of my decorating for Halloween. Then I saw these great crows at Jo-Ann Fabric and my vision started coming together.

I don't think black crows are really a sign of good luck, especially in your house, but so far no problems.



I love stretching the cobwebs. They are too cool!

 You can see in the background of the above picture the fireplace mantle. I have been decorating this for a couple years now and actually found a bunch of black candles that inspired that. Again, my picture skills need improvement, but you will get the idea.

I had to take the below pictures quick. The candles are pretty, but the cobwebs go up in smoke quickly and then it becomes a hazard that Will would prefer not to have to deal with.

Okay, this is not really a Halloween prop. We really have a barn door in our house. Looks pretty old and creepy huh?

More Halloween pictures to come as the month goes on. Hope you enjoyed these. Cheers until next time!

JET

Bike & Brunch

Rain or shine we said we were going for a bike ride and unfortunatley it was rain so off on an adventure we went this morning. We were thankful it was not cold and windy but we sure got wet!

Why the bicycling all of a sudden? Well, I decided I wanted to do a triathalon hence the new purchase of a bike. Now I need to get out more often. It is also a great excuse to go places and be with friends. 

We met Lexy and Peter at The Fork Resturaunt out on North Shore Road. We rode from there to the end of the trail at the end of North Shore and back. It was about 12 miles round trip. We rode past the house I grew up in and many new houses that I had never seen before.

Why would we want to go in the pouring rain? We had a food motivator of course. Our plans were to have brunch at The Fork when we returned and it was so good!

Here we go!

Look at that action shot. Great job to, Will, the photographer. He made it look like we were flying. 
  

Peter looking like a true biker.

   

Here comes Will at the beginning of the official trail.

   

End of the trail.



Not a very good waterfall picture but Will had literally just ran me over. I forgot that I don't have break lights and I stopped in a hurry to take this picutre and he kept going right into me. We didn't totally bite it thank goodness but it could have been bad. He caught me on my way down and I tweaked my back so we will see how tomorrow is. I see a sore day in my future. Needless to say I got the picture and I now know I need to yell that I am stopping. I am new to this biking thing I guess.

 I loved this little tree growing out of the stump. It was so cute so it was a photo moment.

 

Will had to take this picture becuase there is a photo of Chris and Andy's old car wash on Samish Way on it. The sign was telling people to use commercial car washes so that the chemicals from the soaps went to proper storage places rather than the storm drains that get back to the fresh water. The photo is in the middle left. Kind of hard to see it but totally unexpected being out on a poster at a trainhead in the middle of nowhere. Pretty fun.

We made it back and it was time for brunch! If you have not been to this resturaunt it is super cute and the food is very good. They use a lot of local ingredients and the food tastes very fresh. Lexy, Peter and I all had Huevos Rancheros and Will had Biskets and Gravy which looked quite tasty. A little secret we had dinner there Thursday night too. I highly recommend it.

 

 

My well deserved mimosa. It was yummy!!

Another adventure and I want you all to notice that I am posting this the same day it happened so not behind here. :)
Cheers and until next time!

JET

Home Sweet Home

So, I hear I am not a very good Blogger. My husband is even giving me a bad time about not keeping up with my adventures. I admit I am about three posts/stories behind so hopefully I will make up for it now.

This post is for many reasons. First, many of my Seattle friends don't know what my real house looks like so I thought I would put some pictures of my Thompson North home so they could see. They are outside pictures only because my original photo session for this post was for our, or I need to say Will's pond upgrade which I will get to shortly.


Home Sweet Home!



View from the yard.

We don't have much landscaping done but here are a few pictures of what is done. It is definitely a major work in progress. When you have 10 acres it takes a lot of motivation which is most definitely lacking on my end.



Yard art made by my dad out of old insulators. Pretty cool!

Okay, reason two for this post. A couple years ago while I was away at a Credit Union Management School Will put in a pond to surprise me and since then we have been looking for a old water pump to circulate the water. Well my dad recently found us a pump and Will put it together this weekend so I felt I had a story to share. The following is before, during and after photos for you. First of all we did have some cute friends help us or should I say they observed the progress. 



Can you spot our frog? He is pretty cute.



Here is Wasabi. He posed nicely for the camera.

Of course we cannot forget about Riley. He was most definitely out helping. He loves to be outside and as my mom says "Be with his people."

Okay, here is the before picture with no water pump:

Some during photos:

Very focused! Don't ask how many trips to Hardware Sales he made that day he is a bit bitter about it.

After photos:

Good job to Will on a project completed. You can check it off your list. Hope you all enjoyed a mini tour of the outside of our house or at least some of the outside of it. There are many more places to venture but that can be posts for a later day. I will leave you with another Wasabi picture since he stuck around for many, many pictures.

Cheers and until next time!

JET

Me, a Blogger?

Yep that's right, I am now a Blogger or, well..... at least I am going to try it. I have to admit I was inspired by Julie & Julia and probably should give some credit to my Mom and Sister. I am a bit obsessed with my daily checks of their blogs for something new. Very similar to Facebook I might add but I feel I can share much more about our "Tales" or as I like to really call them "Adventures" this way rather than a brief two sentance explaination of a picture on Facebook. I see I am going to need more time in my day to keep up with all of this technology. Thank goodness I have not yet got myself addicted to Twitter or Linked In. I don't think I could manage all of this. Highly recommend the movie if you haven't see it and in the spirit of my little post "Cheers" and until next time.