Early Autumn Weekend

I had a great anniversary-celebrating weekend with Wendy. We went out to the Pleasant Beach Bistro in Winslow for dinner and then to see "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," which was pretty good. In the morning, we got up and had a great breakfast and lounged around the house until about 1 p.m. Then we took Cinder to the park--the leaves there are starting to change color, some of them are a brilliant fire red. We then went to the Bay Hay and Feed store, which is a cute little country store on the other side of the island.

There was still a bit of daylight left when we got home, so I went into the yard and cut and split about a half cord of wood while Wendy cleaned out the garage! We also gave each other presents. Wendy liked the red flannel sheets I picked out for us, though they're prone to lint balls, and she loved the woodcut I bought. She even knew the artist's work! Wendy gave us a ship's log, which was a brilliant idea (I wish I thought of it) and she filled it out with the details of our first voyage. Yesterday we went to the Olympic National Forest with Cinder and drove the truck up to an observation point where we could see all the way to Seattle (well, we could have if it had been clear). All in all, it was a great weekend--playoff baseball, too! Go Angels, go Twins!