Retirement Cabin to close to Puget Sound...The month started out cold but shortly after Kari, Charles, Travis & Wren headed back to Alaska, the weather started to warm up. We enjoyed spending time with Brett, Kasey and Cecilia before we were scheduled to head north. The day we left it decided to rain hard, melting the snow and causing record floods. We made it back to Hansville but within hours after we arrived home all roads between Vancouver and Seattle area were closed due to major floods. The roads remained closed for several days. Being retired we were not really inconvenienced but working people had lots of problems commuting. During this time we enjoyed seeing a lot of wildlife including many raccoons around the house.
Hood Canal with OlympicsWe also discovered a Nature Conservancy beach just a mile from our house that looks out over Hood Canal to the Olympic range of mountains. We learned the locals call it sand dollar beach because of a large colony of sand dollars visible at low tide. Later in the month we noticed we had n
ot been seeing many of the raccoons. A neighbor shared that somebody in the neighborhood had been trapping them and moving them to another community. He reportedly had moved 14 raccoons! We can’t help but wonder what the other community thinks of their raccoon population explosion. We ended the month with a 4.5 earthquake centered at Kingston, just 12 miles from us. Can you believe we slept through it?Point No Point Lighthouse at Hansville
