01-05JUL21 - Pacific Beach, WA (🧨celebrating the 4th at a b&b 🎇)

Thursday, 01JUL, not the greatest start to a new month; late AM off to medical appointment so Dan can get biopsy on tongue (benign).  Very simple procedure but pain catches Dan by surprise when novocain wears off.  Spend rest of day getting packed for tomorrow’s trip to Pacific Beach, WA.  Where we will meet Rebecca & grandsons (Jaxson & Mason) for the Fourth at an Air BnB (a first for us).

Friday 8AM we start drive to beat all the forecasted traffic jams forecasted for this post covid holiday.  Find BnB but can’t check into 3PM; so off to Ocean Shores to find lunch spot.  (Pacific Beach very small & it appears only food spot is teriyaki counter in the lone gas station)  Then back to check into BnB (pretty nice w/all comforts of home:)  Then walking on the beach; around 8PM Rebecca & kids arrive.  Then off to the beach for long walk before everyone crashes 10PM.

Saturday AM Corrie & Rebecca walk to the only coffee shop in town.  Then we jump into car & head to Ocean Shores for miniature donuts at Kookamunga’s.  Next we crossed the street to Sharky’s for typical tourist junk.  We walked thru the town of Seabrook which is a “new” town created as a planned seaside community.  Before heading back to Pacific Beach & the beach, where the boys actually got in the frigid water.

Washington Coast Cottages | Seabrook Vacation Rentals (seabrookwa.com)

That evening we were treated to Jay Jaye one man band playing on the KXPB outdoor stage from 7PM to 10PM (definitely for all those 68 to 74 hard rockers).  The audience never got bigger than 12 people & two dogs.  Back to BnB for s’mores & family games.

Sunday (Happy Fourth🎆) head toward Lake Quinault; small lake surrounded by Quinault Indian Reservation, Olympic National Park & Olympic National Forest.  Check out the Lake Quinault Lodge built in 1926 & bought lunch.  Then drove to worlds tallest Sitka Spruce; then we complete drive around north end of lake & back to the BnB.  Take out dinner (because we couldn’t get reservations) from Ocean Crest Restaurant (highly recommended).  Finally fire off all Rebecca’s fireworks to keep grandkids quiet.  Unfortunately some yahoos keep firing off their fireworks until 2:30AM (everyone manages to sleep thru it, but Dan).

You are 1 click away from a beach getaway! (oceancrestresort.com)

You are 1 click away from a beach getaway! (oceancrestresort.com)

Monday AM clean-up BnB & everyone hits the road by about 0930.  We beat the traffic jams & get home for lunch; unload truck, do laundry & not much else.

01-30JUN21 - Sultan, WA (100 degree days in seattle 🥵)

Not much medical news to report for Dan & his stroke at the end of April, during the month of June.  Couple of visits with Cardio specialist, and Primary Care.  There was another CT with contrast of Dan’s brain with nitroglycerin administered.  Dan’s Cardio specialist opinion is things look good now, cardio wants to wait one more month & have report from neuro specialist before changing meds or other things to treat heart issues  We finally got a speech therapist appointment (in July!).

08-11JUN we packed up the dogs and headed to east Bremerton to help daughter Rebecca with the boys (Jaxson & Mason) during last week of school.  Mostly taking them to “activities” after school like jujitsu, swimming, rock climbing, etc.

Saturday AM, 12JUN, head to Sorticulture in Everett last attended in 2017 (see below BLOG link); pandemic cancelled it last year.  As the state comes out of social distancing it was moved to much smaller scale downtown.  One big negative no food trucks; then home at lunch time to make use of sun before heavy rains arrive Sunday.

The Ryan RV Express: 01-30JUN17 - Sultan, WA (summer solstice in fremont)

Sorticulture | Everett Tourism, WA (visiteverett.com)

Sunday AM (20JUN fathers’ day) off to Dennys for dad dinner (breakfast)why?  Because grandkids’ favorite & not bad place to miss the crowds at other places for dads’ day for breakfast.  Then back home and into the pool.  Early afternoon Rebecca packs up car & heads home for upcoming work week; after dinner more swimming until family fire.  Monday, 21JUN, record heat (low 90s); grandkids pretty much stay in pool, evening off to Stray Dogs for jiu-jitsu in Monroe (turns out their “brand” of training is honored at any member club in USA & then back to pool.  Tuesday still hot, not much done, more time in pool for grandkids.  Wednesday jiu-jitsu for grandkids in early evening.  Thursday not much done just getting grandkids ready to get back to mom; late afternoon run to Edmonds to get them on ferry to Kingston; then back to their home.

Friday, 25JUN, first of multiple triple digit temps for Seattle, which has never happened before.  Because of heat some of Seattle cantilevered bridges stop all traffic for few minutes to hose down bridges & cool steel structure so they don’t jam???; Dan makes sure pool is ready to go for the heat wave, in fact our simplistic solar heater has water temp up to 89 degrees, time to shut it off!!!

Saturday five degrees hotter than yesterdayL  not much done, thank goodness for whole house AC!  Sunday another triple digit temperature day, hotter than yesterdayL  Not much done, just sit in the AC house!  Monday another day hotter than the day before; pool at 94 degrees so we run pump at night & bypass solar, this lowers temp to 88 degrees next morning.  Tuesday cools off to mid 90s.  Wednesday (last day of June) finally temps back down in the mid 80s; pool at 86 degrees.

Below is some of the results of Corrie’s flower gardening for the last three monthsJ  Now all the veggies & fruits will be  coming in.