My evil car

So.....Kylee had a barrel Race at an indoor arena about 6 miles down the road from here. I thought I would go take some pictures. About noonish I am driving down the road about 30-35 MPH when the car pulls to the right and off into the ditch I went. I thought I was going to tip over but I kept driving, up and down, and as you can see in the pic I straightened the car and almost straddled the ditch and finally came to a driveway and out on to the road. I didn't want to stop the car and be stuck in the ditch. I could tell I had at least one flat tire but crept down the road to the arena and then said "OH Crap"!!! So I'm ok, the car is ok and all dirty and I do have a right front flat. I suppose what happened was I got a flat and lurched to the right and the rest is history. I missed Kylee's first ride and her second. I called my son in law about 25 miles away but he came right out and changed my tire. I had it out and all ready and I know I could have/should have changed it--but I didn't want to.. Wah!!
So Monday I will drive on the little doughnut tire to the tire shop and they will fix it. After all they sold me the tires just in August. Back the I had a post about my flat tire on the freeway at 70 MPH. this car is jinxed I am sure. 3 sets of tires in 3 years and now another flat. What tha........MB

How high's the water, Momma?

I took these pictures Friday as I drove around the Valley.

I think the water is a little high. It is a good thing they have a nice boat.

Derelict boats on the Samish. This is how I feel sometimes. LOL

The Samish River at Samish Bay.
The Samish River is approximately 25 miles long. The river drains an area of 139 square miles between the Skagit River basin on the south and the Nooksack River basin on the north. The Samish River originates on a low divide in Whatcom County, and its tributary, Friday Creek, originates in the hills south of Bellingham. The river continues its southwesterly flow through Skagit County and outlets into Samish Bay in Puget Sound.

The Samish River supports a large variety of fish and is home to one of Washington's larger fall King Salmon runs. The Samish River has runs of five Salmon and three trout species including: Spring/Winter Steelhead, Summer Sockeye, Fall Chinook/Chum/Coho, and year-round runs of Cutthroat, and Dolly Varden. Also documented are Pink Salmon which, while rare, do arrive in small numbers to spawn in the Samish.

Flooded cornfield


A whole raft of snoozing Sanderlings in a flooded field


Don't forget to click on any picture to enlarge it--specially the last one. See each one sleeping.

Ripples in the pond

Friday turned out to be fairly nice. No rain and even some sun showing through. I saw some nice reflections on the pond and decided pond pictures were due. The fish came up to greet me and they made ripples on the water. The waterfall was rushing and it was just plain nice out. MB

Crazy Clouds~~~~~~Sky Watch

More of the fantastic sky and clouds swirling around Mt. Rainier yesterday. Now today is nothing but gray and showers. No mountains in sight.

To view more fantastic skies or to participate go to www.skyley.blogspot.com

Morning with the mountain

The southern sky was beautiful this morning and for half the day. The sunrise on Mt. Rainier was stunning and the many different cloud formations all day long was awesome. The dark clouds came down around 2:30 and covered the Mountain and by three it was raining and hasn't stopped.
As you can see the shots were taken at the same spot from my deck.
Something I am thankful for. MB

1. 6:30am
2. 6:45
3. 7:00
4: 7:45
5. 8:00

Tremendous!!!
Click on each picture to enlarge

Mural~~~Wednesday Sepia Scenes

This is a mural painted on an old brick wall in Sedro-Woolley Wa. Sedro-Woolley is an old Logging/farming community on upper Skagit River. Very interesting town. MB

To see more scenes in sepia go to http://sepiascenes.blogspot.com/

We wazzunt doin' nuthin'

It seems everyone was wondering about the muddy girls in my previous post.
Here's their story and they're sticking to it.
The girls went down to the pasture to talk to the horses and decided to clean out the horse trough--water is involved--and one thing led to another--use imagination--these are the results. They even took a video. Too funny but I don't know how to post it to my blog.
The girls looked like this:




And my laundry room looked like this.