Clarice's parents stopped by last week for lunch. ET our grandson from Portland spent last week on the boat with us. Then last Saturday my sister and brother-in-law brought my parents up. This was a bit of a big deal as Dad is pretty disabled with a stroke and Parkinson's and Mom is convinced that anything within 50 ft of ocean water is sure to get hit by a tsunami or sink or be eaten by sharks...... Worse yet Mom has been convinced that the day we stepped on the boat would be the last we would spend in Washington. I think she now understands that we don't live on a wooden raft held together with rusty nails and duct tape that makes you sea sick every time the wind blows more than 2 knots.
Today one of Clarice's (many) sisters came by with her husband and two kids. After dinner we took the dingy over to Jetty Island. I figured the water would be not-as-cold since the tide had come in over about 1/2 mile of warm sand with today's mega tide change but didn't expect it to be really warm! We turned our backs expecting the kids to wade a bit and turned around and they were flopping in the surf like a couple of mackerels. The really nice thing is they gave me an excuse to not take on a project when I got home as my back has been protesting mightily.
Oh, about "Clarice Clean", anyone who knows Clarice knows that our homes have always had a "comfortable messiness" about them but you could eat off the floor. The past couple of days Clarice has responded to her inner passion and attacked the decks with soft scrub, a hand brush (yes, on her knees) and finally, the coup-d-grace her (no longer in mouth duty) toothbrush. After nearly 40 years I have learned to just stay out of the way when she is in a cleaning and/or organizing mood (I also try to keep Jarvis at a safe distance so he doesn't get the toothbrush and cleanser treatment.) I will say that the deck looks really nice!
A note about Jarvis our Jackhuahua: He really loves having kids around (our granddaughter has been able to poke him in the eye since she was 9 months old and he still adored her). We took off in the dingy with the niece and nephew and he stood on the front deck watching us and let out the saddest, loudest, wail we have ever heard from the little guy. Clarice had to come back and put him inside the closed boat where he settled down. I think if he knew that our granddaughter and her brothers were coming next week he wouldn't sleep for next 5 days waiting.
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