Another Relaxing Day

More branches blew down last night.  Another rainy day.

Downy Woodpecker

Jay  made a delicious breakfast of peach pancakes.  Yummy.  The guys decided to golfing in spite of the rain.  Jeanne and I went in for coffee and then to the church to do some work for their order of service.  I helped fold.

Notice all the nice landscaped rocks.  Last year when I was here we went out with Jeanne and Jay's grand kids to collect rocks.  It is nice to see them all well used.

It was lunch time.  We decided to go to Insula Restaurant for lunch.  It is an American Asian Fusion restaurant.  Very good food.  Jeanne had her usual of pulled pork won ton tacos and I had spinach salad with strawberries and candied walnuts.  She let me have one of her tacos.  They were delicious.  She had some of my salad.

tacos

We did a tiny bit of dinking but the rain was a deterrent.  We went home.  We had to get the ribs in the oven for tonight, anyway.

Cool mural.

This garden area is in front of one of my favorite stores. 

Interesting bumper sticker

A wealthy guy has bought up some of the old buildings in town and has been renovating them.  This old theater has been closed as long as I have been coming to Ely but it is supposed to open this November.  There is one old building which would be a perfect one for McMenamins to buy and renovate.  ;-). 

Since it was not the best dinking weather we went back to the house.  We worked on copying each others pictures.  While we were working on that THE SUN CAME OUT!!  We dropped everything and headed out to the Kiwishiwi Falls.   

It was a little muddy but we did not let that stop us.  

I guess that is not enough blue to make a pair of Dutchman's britches because it rained right after that.  But we did see blue sky and sun today.  

We drove back into Ely to the Art and Soul Gallery.  I always like that place.  Really cool art.  I could have bought half the stuff in the store, if I had more bare walls to hang things.

Back home again.  We walked down to the bay to check out the cover on the pontoon boat to see if it stayed covered.  I guess the back side came off with the wind.

Covered pontoon boat.  

Then we had to check out the tree that came down yesterday in the storm.

This is the tree that went down in the storm.  It is right by the back of the house.  Weird the way it split and some went one direction and some the other.

The neighbor's boat

My annual picture of the bay.

I guess the guys got pretty wet today with their golfing.  It was on again off again day, so they dry times, too.

After 4 hours in the oven, Jay is finishing the ribs off on the grill.

Delicious

Note Jay's beer, scotch and wine - an equal opportunity drinker.

The guys: Jay, Rick, Todd, and Mike.  They are a great bunch of guys.  

They watched some movie down stairs.  Jeanne and I watched an old movie upstairs.  It was a great day.  It is hard to believe that it is my last day here.  We will head off in the morning.