Camano Island

I would like to predict an end to my hiatus from blogging, but the level of future activity remains to be seen.  I am currently heading to Dallas via LAX from Seattle.  Ridiculous itinerary but I'm a victim of a corporate travel group trying to save a few dollars.  Thankfully, Alaska Airlines has a free inflight wireless promotion through the end of July so I am taking advantage of it to update my blog, twitter and facebook.  This blog has been neglected, but I have received so many encouraging comments and emails to continue blogging that I am going to try to be more diligent in updating it on a somewhat regular basis.
Last weekend Candace, Naomi, Melinda and I went to Arlene's Camano Island estate for fun on the beach, great food, spinning, knitting and beadwork!  Rob was on a climb so I brought Whimsy with me to Camano.  She is an easy traveler and had such fun on the beach!  I was worried the barnacles would cut her paws but she didn't have a problem with them at all.
The weather was gorgeous and the beach was inviting.  The tide was way out and trying to get to the waters edge proved more difficult than it looked.  We sank in the wet sand up to our calves and in some spots our knees.  It felt like I was in quicksand!  It was amazingly difficult to pull first my foot and then retrieve my sandal from the sand prison.  Even at the water's edge, it wasn't very deep and there was an abundance of eel grass which felt just plan weird around my ankles.  Whimsy bounded through the water chasing her water kong so she got plenty of exercise even if she didn't actually get to swim.

In between the cooking, spinning and knitting I helped the other ladies learn to make a right angle weave bracelet using 6mm pearls, 4 mm bicone crystals and seed beads.  Each individual's bracelet were unique and so beautiful and they were all willing and enthusiastic students! As much as I enjoy knitting (most of the time) it is refreshing to have a craft such as beading in which I can make a gift for someone or obtain a feeling of accomplishment in just a few hours.