Fishing Day

We've been working on the house for several days and decided it was time to take a short break. I loaded the truck up the night before to make the Monday morning departure a little easier. It was a good thought, but nothing happened except click, click, click when I turned the key to start the motor. Not wanting to waste anytime, we transferred everything to the Pilot and headed out to an eventful day of dock fishing.
All of us caught a few fish, but only one was a keeper and I gave it to one of the other fishermen sitting with us.

The keeper trout.  

Susan with the catch of the day. A 3" Mudskipper that looked more like bait instead of a catch.  

Bek with a Rock Bass,

And Jaz with the same. 

I ended up buying a new battery for the truck, but I didn't feel too bad because it was the original at nine years old. 

Mud Run

Bek asked a few weeks ago if I would do the mud run on JBLM with her and I agreed. The weather was perfect and the turn out was pretty good as well. We didn't time ourselves because both of us have not done any running for quite some time and having fun was the priority. But maybe this will re-ignite the bug in me to start running again? 

Showing our guns and determination before the start. 

A little stretching before hitting the road. 

Here's Bek looking forward to the deeper stuff ahead. 

We both medalled. 

Still looking tough as ever after the race. 

Graduation Day

Rebekah graduated from High School yesterday and we planned for a small party afterward. Our day started off with losing power at 330 in the morning because an underground power line went bad. I ran into the Puget Sound Power crew at the 7-eleven when I went for a coffee run and they told me a fuse blew. A fuse blew? It sounded like a howitzer went off. Sounds right to me he replied. We had sticky buns ready to go into the oven, but the lack of power put a slight damper on breakfast. I fired up the generator to run the essentials. You know, curling irons, hair dryers, straighteners and then decided to use the turkey roaster to see if we could salvage the food. To our delight, they came out just fine and all the girls were able to prep themselves for the ceremony. We were happy to see the power back on when we arrived back at the house and we were back in business. The first thing on the agenda was to turn on the grill and get the onions going. Easier said than done because the stupid thing stopped working. I made a few calls, got a hit to pick up a friends and drag it back to the house only to find out his grill decided to quit as well. I finally decided to go old school and get the briquettes soaking and after getting the burgers cooking I remembered why we switched to gas because the smoke was crazy thick and choking me out, but it got the job done.  

A very fattening breakfast, but worth every calorie. 

Jaz and Bek posing with her diploma. 

The 2014 Senior Banner. 

Bagging It.

I'm back on the single speed for commuting and that means no bike rack, panniers or trunk bag. What it does mean is everything gets packed into the Camelbak, including lunch. 

Here is some delicious noodles and meatballs prepped for cramming into a little space. Eating today reminded me of hiking the trails years ago when all the food was consumed in this manner.