Exhausting

CLOSE QUARTERS:  We're starting to get a little bit buggy here at MPA. Tomorrow will mark week 3 of when CJ became afflicted with his mystery illness.  One that keeps you close to home and a dishwasher, clothes washer and lots of bleach, when you're not at urgent care or the doctor's office.

The good news is, there's lots of interesting stuff to look at 'round here right now. Tonight, the kids picked tomatoes from our garden for the first time this season.  It's a jungle in there!

Lots of our little tomatoes are coming to red. 

And we picked a couple of habeneros (our first attempt at growing them). Aren't they lovely?!

And some of our sunflowers are going gangbusters!

One is flowering big time ...

and another is ready to unfurl.

Christian and I moved tons o' boulders this weekend. Just the two of us. And some ropes. And pulleys.

It's exhausting and rewarding.  We have a relatively wee little pile of rocks left to move.

Tonight we dared venture to Maggie Bluffs, a restaurant very close to home, well before the dinner hour hit. The spot affords a lovely view of Elliott Bay. It's adjacent to a spendy marina, and we marveled at an enormous cargo ship going by, the Anna Maersk.

Tonight, we checked out the Maersk Web site. It's really cool!

The kids each found a tree to climb on and around post happy hour.