What a day!

This past evening was just wonderful in the sense that the birds were singing and the sun was out. It's warm enough now to head down to the water for sunset. Saying it's warm enough does not mean that its warm. It means only that instead of coming home frozen you get to come home chilled!

Along the water it was perfect though. The tide was out enough that instead of walking along the road I could walk along the rocky beach and enjoy the waves crashing. I'll never take living here for granted.

It was so lovely.

Another day coming to an end with such a lovely glow

Returning to my car and looking towards PA I noticed that Hurricane Ridge was making an appearance for the first time all day. The mountains had been covered in clouds all day. It is very odd this time of year but it's been snowing something like 10 inches a day up there the last few days while we have had a cold front in the area. Snow in May!!

Go West Young Lady

I like to drive and I like to hike. Both activities focus my mind and around here it is hard not to enjoy the scenery. So west I went this afternoon. It was my intention to have a nice long hike, however the weather had another plan. Here at home it was nice and sunny but out west it was anything but sunny. After dodging rain drops I shortened the hike and it became more a nice drive filled with lots of the areas beauty.

Canadian Goose nesting. Seeing this made me wonder why its called a Canadian Goose when clearly this goose is American! ;)

View looking west from the last 1/3 of Lake Crescent. There is almost some sunshine on those foothills way way in the west.

The trees are so tall. Describing how tall is difficult. Being in the forest here is almost like being surrounded by sky scrappers in the city. Only it smells a whole lot better!



It is so green too!

I took this one as I was getting back to my car. My first thought was...it needs washed. My second thought...look how small it seems next to those tall trees.

Customer Service

Every job I've ever held has depended on my ability to provide customer service and also to ensure that at times those I supervised provided customer service. Because of this when I go into a business I have expectations that I'll receive customer service to certain level. Today I found myself again wondering when employees are trained if they are taught the basic principles of ...

1. The customer is always right
2 If the customer is wrong, please see rule #1.

And also

That a happy customer tells approximately one other person but an unhappy customer tells five to seven people.

I'm hoping that tomorrow when a call is supposed to come from this business that they recover with grace. I did my best today to handle the situation with tact. It will begin to move quickly out of control though. One of those moments where you can see the car accident coming and it simply isn't in your power to stop it.

The Hoh

This was to be tomorrow's blog entry, however tomorrow is going to find me away from my laptop. I wish I was going someplace as lovely as ONP. Instead I'm headed into the city for an appointment.

Several weeks ago some friends were visiting from the midwest and we headed to The Hoh Rain Forest in ONP. The mild winter we had been having gave us a day filled with sunshine and no need for jackets. My friends joked that this was the second time I'd taken them to Forks and both times they didn't see clouds or rain. They are begining to doubt the rumors. I promise though its true the winters and the springs are rainy! Just check out that moss in the trees in some of these photos.

Did she just say that?

Now I call the Pacific Northwest home, but before I came to live in the land of rain and tall trees I resided in the land of Tex-Mex. North Central Texas was home until college and then it was West Texas. So to listen to the southern accent talk about a town on an island I can see from my current house all I can say is it doesn't get much better than that. However the laughs that are provided help too. I am considering a trip to the north in February though. I had no clue the calm Canadians did such things to raise money for charity! ;)

It is a bit long however I'm certain you will laugh so give it a watch!

Editor

This past week the local paper had an error in one of the front page headlines. The error caused the headline to pretty much not make any sense at all. It was a glaring error. As soon as I saw it I wondered, a bit sarcastically mind you, if the paper had an editor. Of course they do but as we all know to error is human.

I did start to think though how nice it would be if our life came with an editor. Someone to tell us, "Oh you shouldn't do that. It's not going to turn out well." or "If you phrase it like that your spouse will understand better."

We all tend to over use the words I'm sorry. That phrase lets the people in our life know we didn't mean to do or say whatever has wronged them, however it doesn't take away the pain or fix the situation. Maybe if we all came with an editor from birth we wouldn't have to say we were sorry in the first place.

Agent Dale Cooper

In case you don't know remember who Agent Cooper is or heaven forbid Twin Peaks here is a clip of Agent Cooper's introduction in the pilot episode from 1989. Agent Cooper has a thing for good coffee, cherry pie and trees.





Even back in the day Sesame Street got in on the Twin Peaks fever with this skit "Twin Beaks"

Dream Come True

Well sort of...kind of...well a small one any way. In 1989 a show called Twin Peaks started airing and I fell in love with the story, the characters and the scenery. Little did I know that in less than a decade I'd live in the general area where the show was set. I've visited the falls but I hadn't visited the cafe for the famous cherry pie. Well my high school friend and I made that small dream come true this past week. Agent Dale Cooper was right this cherry pie is amazing. Really!! So now the cafe is called Twede's Cafe and its in North Bend. At the time the show was filmed it was Tamar's RR Cafe. If you are ever in the area its worth a stop to use Agent Coopers words.

Forever

Sometimes life gets busy and it isn't photo worthy or you simply find yourself too busy to dig the camera out. Well I've dug the camera out to show you that there is life in my corner of the northwest. ;)

Returning home from a day spent in Seattle the sunset was amazing and made the ferry ride even more of a joy. Downtown was glittering and then to the west there was all this color. Simply beautiful!

My oh my

Stephenie Meyer wrote 4 books set in Forks, Washington. It is small logging town that honestly before the books most people drove through on their way to somewhere else. Now because of the books the town is actually the place folks are on the way to as they journey down Hwy 101.

It was announced this past week that a producer wants to film a TV show here. Based on the real place and the real people. Reality TV arriving on the peninsula! This has me wondering what the TV show will actually find to show the world. Forks if full of normal people. Normal small town people. They also are auditioning people from La Push and Port Angeles. Those places are also low on folks that sparkle, phase or do much more besides go to work at normal jobs.

Think about cameras following you around each day. What would the world find you doing? Pretty normal, average things I'm guessing. Wonder how this show will go.