Lois Lane and Jimmy
Our Puget Sound summer finally sparked a blaze when the chilly month called ‘Junuary’ came to an end and July and August brought the good stuff. It came just in time for a calendar laden with Northwest festivals, shows, farmers markets and happenings galore. After being cooped up most of this record-breaking cold year, Washingtonians were uber-eager to get out and live large.
Like Lois Lane, I’m always hot on the trail of a story and with so much happening there were plenty to chose from. With the help of Bruce (aka, Jimmy) we were able to gather quite a few. I visited an oyster farmer on Case Inlet and learned more than a half shell of information about the slimy bivalves.
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Oysterman Tom Farmer stands with his dog Finnigan.
The opportunity arose to write a piece about the state’s lighthouses and I discovered that each of the 25 sentinels has a story and character all it’s own.
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T-bird #9 sailing downwind with a championship party crew.
For three days, I covered the
50th Anniversary celebration of the T-bird boats in Gig Harbor that included races, a boat launch and enough stories to fill a library.
Bruce and I spent two days cruising South Sound in our 1956 Aristocraft speedster in order to find and report on the tiny waterfront businesses that dot that underdeveloped area.
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Friend Blair Dallin joined Jimmy and Lois on a South Sound Sojourn.
Just last weekend I climbed over nearly two dozen tugboats at the 35th annual Harbor Days in Olympia, the state’s capital.
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This all-about-tugboats event culminates in a heart stopping race that amazingly claims has never had a collision.
Tugboat racing is obviously not for sissies.
With Labor Day behind us there will be more stories to chase down. We’ll just have to be sure to take along our parkas.
Like Lois Lane, I’m always hot on the trail of a story and with so much happening there were plenty to chose from. With the help of Bruce (aka, Jimmy) we were able to gather quite a few. I visited an oyster farmer on Case Inlet and learned more than a half shell of information about the slimy bivalves.
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Oysterman Tom Farmer stands with his dog Finnigan.
The opportunity arose to write a piece about the state’s lighthouses and I discovered that each of the 25 sentinels has a story and character all it’s own.
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T-bird #9 sailing downwind with a championship party crew.
For three days, I covered the
50th Anniversary celebration of the T-bird boats in Gig Harbor that included races, a boat launch and enough stories to fill a library.
Bruce and I spent two days cruising South Sound in our 1956 Aristocraft speedster in order to find and report on the tiny waterfront businesses that dot that underdeveloped area.
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Friend Blair Dallin joined Jimmy and Lois on a South Sound Sojourn.
Just last weekend I climbed over nearly two dozen tugboats at the 35th annual Harbor Days in Olympia, the state’s capital.
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This all-about-tugboats event culminates in a heart stopping race that amazingly claims has never had a collision.
Tugboat racing is obviously not for sissies.
With Labor Day behind us there will be more stories to chase down. We’ll just have to be sure to take along our parkas.
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