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Smoke from Pacific Northwest wild fires has dominated our air for several days and made it pretty unpleasant to be outdoors. Thanks to all the firefighters out there. Be safe.
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On the Road to the Fair
Cheron and Cindy made a pact to enter three paintings each into the Jefferson County Fair. Yes, they looked each other in the eye and shook on it, making it official. The duo had just completed an eight-session painting course at the Port Townsend School of the Arts. Cheron had some previous experience painting with acrylics while Cindy had none.
Cindy says that she would never have dreamed of entering anything in the fair after only 8 sessions, yet she thought it was a ‘pretty cool’ idea. “It was a  kick to do with someone else and was lots of fun as we ramped ourselves up along the way”, says Cindy. Cheron recalls that she never would have done this without the pact that the two made. Wherever the idea came from, they proceeded to pick out three of their recent paintings and trotted them down to the fair for judging. Cindy (above) shows off her painting, Point Hudson Cat.
Yikes, judging? But wait, then they found out that each item was judged on its own merit according the judges’ standard criteria. No one was judged ‘against’ anyone else. This sounded pretty good, so ‘why not’ even though neither woman had ever entered art into a fair before.
Cindy won a blue ribbon and two red ones for her three pieces while Cheron, although embarrassed, yet pleased, won two blues and a red for hers (remember they were not competing against each other).
Cindy’s paintings sit on her desk at home with the ribbons now in the drawer. “Yes, I’d do it again”, she said.
Cheron (left) is looking for a place to hang her art on the wall along side of Mena’s. She learned so much in the process of the fair entries, working together with another newbie doing the same thing, and the class that led up to it. With a new appreciation of her own work, and finding out about different painting surfaces, paints, brushes and styles at the class, she found that it was all well worth it.
This is just the beginning. --Pam C
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POD-A-THON
Snoopy Neighbors treated to a peek
Did you know that Jim D has a bidet? And Jack S also? That Mack and Barb have an Oriental bridge spanning their drainage channel? That Jerry has a false wall behind which he keeps his Play Boy magazines (unverified). Well thanks to our Social Team, with Barb organizing, we had a chance to snoop these facts and alternative facts out at the second Pod-a-thon on Sunday August 19th. Members in buildings 5-6 showed off their units and back yards and shared the stories behind their favorite items and pictures. Looky-loos were further rewarded for their curiosity with delicious goodies.
 This was the second of the Pod-a-thon series. The first was for buildings 1-2 on July 29th, organized by Irene. It featured outstanding treats and the sink where Cherie polishes her ice cubes. The next Pod-a-thon is coming up in September and will give us an opportunity to spy on the people of buildings 3-4 or 7-8. What might we learn? That John has a closet full of size 15 shoes? That Grace has a mountain of boulders in her bedroom? That Skip has a Red Baron helmet and goggles in his closet that he wears to bed at night?
According to the organizers, these events are to provide a chance to satisfy our curiosity, to let the unit owners show off their interiors and their newly planted backyards and most importantly to help solidify the bonding of the community. And, indeed, there was a good deal of mingling and chatter and getting to know. I heard in passing a stunned Quimper gasp, “Did you see that in Carolyn’s closet, she has a big box of...(damn, I couldn’t hear the rest).” --Jim D
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r sailing brought Poul and Inge-Lise to Port Townsend in 1990. They found the weather here to be much like that of their native Denmark. They enjoyed 26 years in their spacious house that they built on a large lot in Kala Point overlooking Puget Sound. Loving to entertain in their “Wine Garden,” a sitting area in their yard, they often raised a flag announcing to the neighbors to join them for socializing with drinks, snacks and pets.
jars of preserves that Inge-Lise put up from the produce from their garden.
hile their young grew big enough to fly off. The killdeer settled in the tall grass meadow near “Salmon Pond”, an unintended benefit of a not quite right drainage swale. By the time the pond dried up, the Killdeer young were flying and the family had moved on.
