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Uh oh! What have we done? It was built in 1966 and has some nice bones and the best views around, but needs a lot of work. First up is a new roof, deck, carport, and septic. We’ll see how much we still love it in six months. For now, we are enjoying cocktails on the deck and trying to figure out what we want to do inside! Hotel Bosco will hopefully open for business by the end of 2019, book your trip soon!

For Emily’s birthday, we took a trip up to the gorge and stayed at Edgefield.  We went for hikes on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and had a very nice weekend.

Thousand acres park

Ramona Falls

The dogs especially liked playing in the snow!

Mt. Hood

Latourell Falls

New Hammock

Emily and I took a trip to Charleston for Lyn and Peggy’s 50th wedding anniversary and had a great time.  In addition to three great parties we got to hang with some of the cousins, take a boat trip, and kayak trip as well.

For the new year we headed over to the coast to Rockaway Beach for the weekend.  When we got there on Friday it was very stormy and windy on the beach.

The rest of the weekend, however, was beautiful weather and the dogs went crazy on the beach!

  

We did a real nice hike on Cape Falcon

We had an amazing New Years eve dinner (thanks Ed!).  People could not stop raving about the Yorkshire pudding.

On the way home we had a real nice lunch stop at Pacific City!

Happy New Year everyone!

Oval has a little brother, Rhombus!

 

This is the three week picture of his litter.  Totally ridiculous!

Rhombus is the grouchy one third from the right.

My friend, German, was kind enough to drive to BC with me to pick up this little critter.  We had to leave Oval at home.  She was real sad she couldn’t come.

I liked his breeder, Judi, a lot.  In addition to raising a beautiful litter, she told me that when her friends asked what a Rhombus is, she explained it is kind of like a drunk square.  It was a bit of a tough time for Rhombus, though.  He had to leave his litter of 10, plus his mom and a couple aunties and drive for two days to his new home.   This was the only way he would sleep.

We were lucky enough to have an overnight pit stop in Olympia to visit Lauren and Ed and show Rhombus off a bit.  We had a beer at the Oly Taphouse to celebrate Rhombus and Lauren’s new job!!!  Rhombus had many admirers.

We made it home yesterday and Rhombus finally got to meet his new Dad and big Sister.  Oval was a little overwhelming for him at first, but she gave him lots of space and only interacted with him when he initiated it, so he quickly grew to trust her.

He likes to play and sleep.

and might look just a hair like a miniature Wayno

We are happy  to have the newest member of the Bosco Family on board!

We were fortunate enough to be in the path of totality for the solar eclipse on Monday.  We hung out on our back porch and thoroughly enjoyed it!

It even got dark enough to make the chicken light go on!

At the end of June we got to take an amazing trip to the San Juan islands.  We went to Lopez, Orcas, Stuart, San Juan, and Sucia islands and had a blast.  Below is a collection of pictures I took on the trip in no particular order.  It was a very relaxing trip also filled with many adventures.  Lots of great wildlife, food, company and sunsets.  A typical day included a leisurely morning on the boat and transit to the next island followed with exploring of some sort followed by a fantastic dinner.  Highlights include a tour of the mansion at Rosario, farm to table dinner at West Sound, Turn Point Lighthouse, and hiking and exploring by dinghy. Thank you Lyn and Peggy for such a wonderful trip.