I must let you know how sorry I am at the distinct lack of communication from my end these many long months. So this here is a bit of a long post with many catch-up pictures!

By way of explanation and excuse: I became somewhat ill in the early spring and into summer and have been learning to navigate the treacherous waters of the American health care system. We still dont know what the cause is, but I am finally able to manage the symptoms and am feeling more myself than I have since leaving YK. On a positive note, I have lost quite a bit of weight and feel very svelte (though, I probably look older too).

I suppose, in the end, I simply didnt acknowledge the stresses involved in packing and moving from my beloved Northern home, purging and packing 45 years of my parents life in Niagara Falls a month later (my mum went into a home due to early onset Alzheimers), ferrying my dad and kids back across the country and being separated from them for 3 months while going through the mosh-pit that is US immigration:  all in a six month period.  I used to be able to push through stuff like this, but lesson learned. Respect the stress!

Somehow, despite becoming increasingly sick, I doggedly tried to keep up with a summers worth of kid and family activities and a plethora of chores. It began in the spring when I allowed the Hairy Half to acquire a new mistress!

Pick up day!

We christened her Green Slip (what a pilot picks up for overtime). And we took her out to Neah Bay, WA in July to launch and crossed the straight of Juan de Fuca to cruise Barkley Sound (west coast of Vancouver Island) with the kids for a week.  Magnificent weather and a special place we remember fondly from our lives BC (Before Children)!

At achor

Exploring

Taking it all in

We also did our fair share of prawning and crabbing right here off Bainbridge Island.

And we got one more fishing trip (sans kids) to bring home some chinook.

The kidlets took some sailing lessons and we managed a couple trips to LaPush to round out the summer.

As usual summer went by too fast.

So now that I appear to be on the mend, it is time to focus on our upcoming build.  I know youll want to pay attention to this since this is where we will put you up when you come to visit!!  

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