It's official!

I'm calling it now. It's way overdue. It is officially summer. Unfortunately in Western Washington, summer rarely begins before the 4th of July, as was the case this year. But the afternoon of the 5th was pretty nice, and beginning to get warm. Then a heat wave overcame us and people are lining up at stores for window air conditioners. The last two days have been in the upper 80's and today may even reach into the 90's. I've been waiting for this and am very excited for the warm weather.

In other news... my house in Eatonville finally sold. That was a very long 3+ year journey. It may be another three years before I am free and clear of it. But getting the house sold was a huge first step and I'm very happy to see it go.

Lauren and I drove to Seattle this past weekend to go Kayaking on Lake Union. We arrived too late and ended up walking around the marina on the south end. A classic wooden boat show was taking place and we were able to take tours of the inside of some very antique ships. Lauren also spotted an ice cream stand, which of course we had to try. They had some of the most delicious ice cream I have ever tasted. It was hand made and from a dairy on one of the San Juan Islands. It's a good thing I don't live there or I would be gorging on it every day.

Last week I went to the doctor because he wanted to remove two pieces of sun damaged skin from my back. I've been pretty bad about getting sun burned. When you spend most of your life in really hot places, like Indonesia and Florida, it's hard not to. This doc must have dug pretty deep, because in the end I had eleven stitches. Ouch! It's only the second time in my life that I've had stitches, and hopefully the last. I really don't like them and am really happy to have them taken out in less than an hour. So I'm off... back to the doctor to get them taken out. Then it's time to take the motorcycle out. Have to take advantage of the great riding weather!