Happy Halloween!

The 2-day deck

As a wedding present, Jeremy's dad offered to build us a deck. We had a deck but it was super small and a deck more suited for a downtown condo rather than our country home.

This is Deck 1.0:

And a long shot, so you can see the scale:


So after two long hard days of work, Jeremy and Colby helped Jeremy's dad build us a deck that is approximately 800% bigger (give or take several hundred percents).

Here it is at the end of day one when it was all framed and Sassy was acting as foreman:


And at the end of day two, pretty much done:

Plus the long shot:


We still need to finish some additional details like steps on both sides. But we've already put chairs back there and when it was done last night we sat out, surveying the view while shivering and sipping on a celebratory beer.

Oly Events: Dahr Jamail

The other night while paging through the hundreds of bad cable channels we get and don't get, we stumbled upon Democracy Now where Dahr Jamail was talking about his new book: Beyond the Green Zone. Turns out he'll be stopping in Olympia on his book tour at an event called Beyond Occupation.

If you interested in going, let me know.

Oysterfest 2007

Living the life
Originally uploaded by emjanero

Last weekend was the Oysterfest in Shelton, while we only got to attend for a couple of hours. It was a blast. Lots of oysters prepared in a myriad of ways, live music, people dancing, and Clarissa being confused about life in Mason County.

Two words: Shucking contest

Embracing the abundant resource of our new locale, we're going to go check out OysterFest this weekend, a celebration of my favorite bivalve.

Shucking contests, local art, lots of oysters and entertainment that includes either a band or a performance called "The Eclectic Cloggers" - isn't that redundant?