Living Well With Diabetes

Hi! It has been so long since I’ve written anything here, I’m embarrassed to post this. And this is my very own website! My apologies for being quiet for so long. It has been a very busy time since my last post in June.

For one thing, Pat and I went on a two-week bike tour in the Pacific Northwest. We started in Olympia, Washington and rode north to Anacortes where we caught a ferry to the San Juan Islands. We spent six days there, three of which were on Orcas Island. There were two highlights on that trip. First, on July 10, we rode to the top of Mount Constitution (elevation 2409 feet) from the village of Olga (elevation 10 feet).

The other highlight from the bike tour occurred after we were done cycling and back in Olympia where we spent a couple of days before driving back to Salt Lake City. We met our neighbor Paul there and he took us sailing on his 30-foot Freedom class sailboat. It had been a long time since I had been sailing (my last memory of sailing is on my father’s 15-foot Chrysler Man-O-War when I was in high school) or even on the water in a boat, so it was quite a thrill even though, technically, we didn’t sail. It was quite calm that day so we only motored a couple miles north from the Swantown Marina where he keeps his boat.

Speaking of sailing, another thing I’ve been busy doing is building a boat. This is my first attempt to build a boat or anything more complicated than a bird feeder. So, I decided to keep it small and build an Eastport Pram from a kit. I started the project in late August and it is now assembled and epoxied. I still have several coats of varnish to apply, but I can’t do that until the weather warms up.

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