Busy! Busy! Busy Gopher!

Yesterday I spent the entire day on a mini road trip across the Puget Sound. I took my first ferry trip to Kingston and then drove south to Port Orchard. Next, I headed back up north and then west to the Peninsula for a stop in Sequim. I was on a shopping trip of sorts, more of a go and see your stuff trip. I've been buying statuary, fountains and benches for the nursery since summer. It's been a fun new aspect of my job. I have had these two granite importers trying to sell stuff, but their catalogs are not good at getting a feel for what it really looks like. Now that the busy season is over, I have a little more time and flexibility to go and look at new suppliers.

It seems like it was not that long ago that I was writing about the Christmas decorating that took place last year, and already it is that time again. I will begin the planning and execution of Christmas at the nursery this week. Open house for Christmas will be on November 4th, our official kickoff for the holiday season. In addition, I'm studying for my Certified Professional Horticulturist rating, my test is on the 24th of October. My last class on plant identification is tomorrow morning.

On top of all this, I/we are still working on repairing/remodeling the bedroom and bathroom. The end is not insight yet, but the bedroom is getting closer. I can only hope that we will be back in there before the end of the month. Please, oh please, let it be true.

As you can see, I had some fun taking pictures yesterday on the trip. Some of them are so, so to me, but then others that I thought were going to be cool, turned out to be not so much. It's a crap shoot, literally for me. I need to find a way to understand/learn technical shooting so that I'm much better at my knowing what is and isn't ideal conditions. Some of that is coming to me through trial and error, but so much of it is what looks cool to my eyes, doesn't come through my lens. I think that it would, if I could figure out settings appropriate for different shots.

While I was walking around the ferry on the first trip, it was still cloudy and overcast, but it was still quite a vista of the sound. As I was getting out of my car to walk up to the decks, the mini-van behind me unloaded about 7 little boys from 5-9 years of age and 3 moms. Initially I was like oh crap, this should prove interesting. Little did I know that they would provide me with my favorite moments from the day. This little guy was so full of fun. He just loved the wind. There are more of them on my flickr sight as well.

I better get busy, time to shit, shower and shave as my dad always used to say. But before I go, have a great weekend everyone.