A week ago Meryl got a bike upgrade to a gear bike and the very next day we met up with friends for a mother daughter bike ride to the West Seattle Water Taxi for lunch across the water and back (our e-bike helped both of us bike up and down our neighborhood hill). Meryl biked eight miles that day and wanted to bike more!

We both want to do it again and again!

One of the latest Bon Appetit magazines featured hand cut noodles and we are ALL IN! We made them twice in one weekend:)

Is he right-handed or left? It’s still up in the air as he switched back and forth using the scissors. We’ll see in time.

Grooming and leading horses through a maze day! Dear 33-year old Miss. Pattycakes has been working through some long standing digestive issues…which makes brushing her tail a multi-sensory experience:) Meryl was happily up for the job! Plus, it’s fun when the older kids help out with the youngster class - social scene!

One night, as we were walking out of the kids’ rooms, we heard and felt continuous loud booming. Well, there was most certainly a raging party, but it was all the way across Elliott Bay on Bainbridge Island…and these happy people planned a fireworks show on par with what shoots off of the Space Needle each year. Lucky us to have gotten to watch from our deck!

Lift off! At the end of August we took a float plane from Lake Union (near our house!) to visit friends on Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands north of Seattle. (The pilot put the kids in the back with the cargo to balance out the heavy luggage the other passengers brought aboard…clearly not following the <25 lb. soft carry-on recommendation we painstakingly adhered to otherwise! Our bags went into the pontoons, and it was a joy to travel lightly…that is, after we figured out how to edit.)