No, we have heard nothing about the adoption....

I just thought I'd put that out there. We have had a fabulous summer vacation so far though. We enjoyed a beautiful week in the San Juan Islands with our friends Rob, Shelly and Nathan. We haven't known Nathan as long as his parents... but so far he seems to be a pretty cool kid, so we've upgraded his status from acquaintance to friend. Lucky him. We handled the boat like old deck hands and made it through the locks, and the Swinomish slough at low tide. Our favorite place was Roche Harbor, on the North end of San Juan island, so much so that we are probably going back in the late summer.

The "Anderson BBQ Palace" as so named by our good friend and timber framer (and brilliant architect) Dustann, is fully underway. We are waiting for the steel to be delivered today, and then the framing to start next week sometime. We could actually be using it by the end of August!

Jury duty was interesting, and long. We had a case of a man robbed at gun point with an assault rifle. It killed me not to talk about it for 2 weeks, especially with Chris, but we finished and had deliberations with the nuttiest people in Seattle. Conspiracy theorists involving 5 policemen/lab workers, hinted at racism among the jury, people who couldn't read or write at age 50. Whew. But when all was said and done, we found the defendants guilty and they should be going away for quite a while. My new job idea du jour is CSI lab assistant. We'll see how that goes!