hallelujah!

So you KNOW what that means? YES my lovelies!!! We have high speed!!!!! I think the new service is even faster than the connection at my office! He he he! I'll have to post some pictures to check out how fast that works! Whenever I posted a picture before, it would take up to five minutes of just sitting there. That's for ONE picture people! I was the queen of multi-tasking!

So I think I'll share some photos from our trip to Vashon Island. Glen and I went back this past weekend (Sunday/Monday) as a driving trip this time. We did a self-portrait on the ferry from Port Defiance to the island and I'm really happy with how this one came out! I look so young! :-)

So we went to Vashon to join our friends Roger, Anne, and Julia. Julia, as you recall lives on Vashon. Anne is another one of Glen's childhood friends and Roger is Anne's husband. Well, the primary motivator for getting us over there was to celebrate Roger. He turned 50 and I must say, he did it while looking fabulous!!! Anne's not too shabby herself! Heck, Julia's gorgeous too! Wonderful, kind, smart, funny people and WE got to hang out with them and their families! Thanks again Julia!!!

I LOVE this picture! I thought it was cool to find a hen house while strolling along the main highway. Pretty neato, huh Mom! The author Betty MacDonald wrote "The Egg and I" while she was living on Vashon!

One of the shops we went into was called The Country Store and Gardens. It was this big old barn with some beautiful gardens and I was TOTALLY expecting it to be all knick-knacky country clutter type stuff but it was a real, working general store. Clothes, books, food, farming and gardening supplies, etc. I poked around and found a very small "antique" section which consisted of some books, a box of zinc jelly jar lids, dishes, and some assorted odd bits. Next to the antique section was a shelf with a few remnants of what I would imagine used to the "dry goods" section: some flat spools of lace and assorted trims. The lace was on sale for .10 a yard or the entire spool for $2.00. There were a total of eight spools. I bought five and after a fair amount of fretting and kicking myself, I called the shop the following day and asked if I could order the remaining three spools over the phone and have them send them to me. They were quite gracious and agreed to do so! I had to pay for shipping which effectively made the spools $4.00 each which I thought was still a good enough deal. And to my surprise, the dears at the shop threw in a bunch of lace remnants!! Guess they felt sorry for this city girl trying to immerse herself in the goodness of some country trimmin's!!

Here are the spools on my shelf....

And the remnants have already found themselves a little home...

Okay. I am seriously about to weep. This entire post, pictures and all, has taken me 10 minutes. AND I even loaded some new pics onto the computer, named and filed them! Now I know what everyone was talking about!!!

This, dear reader, is a happy day. :-)

Comments

[GMa Jean]

Can I hear an Amen!! Yes!! So happy for you and glad for all of us who have been missing your lovely sweet entries and pictures. Lots of Love.

[Malou]

Welcome to high speed internet!!! You will love it for sure! I am so over dial up (never liked it in the first place!!!) Yes, I really love that pix of you and Glen, awesome!

[Sharon at Norah'S]

Isn't it amazing! I am so happy for you. Yes you really do look young and Glen is pretty too. I'm a little overwhelmed with your lace story. I just woke up from a dream that seems to connect...it is so on my mind that I thought I would write it down and make a little story out of it. But first I came to read you. Now I'm confused. High speed should only connect our computers not our brains.

[Lilli]

YIPPEE for the high speed !!!

[renee]

What a gorgeous post today! I'm going to add the portrait of you and Glen to my iPhoto album, "Geller Living." And oh my, I do so love that hen house and the connection you mentioned. I have such delightful memories likely as you do regarding, "The Egg and I." Myrna Loy and Fred McMurry right?...and Mommy explaining the plot, right?

[Jana]

Beautiful self portrait! Fun hen house, sounds like some great friends and congrats on the lace! Oh, also welcome to quick internet connections! Not sure I realized you weren't already there...you are really going to be amazed by the difference. I remember all the multi-tasking I used to do with slow sites etc. (still do a lot of knitting while reading online!) Congrats!