double the fun

Tonight was not "walk up the hill night" so I drove down to the beach with Inti and a few dozen heavy towels, her tennis ball and the flinger. She swam after the ball for about 45 minutes and never tired. Mt. Baker (10,788 ft., 68 miles from here) was visible behind Indian Island, immense and glorious and I didn't have a camera with me.

When I decided Inti needed to stop swimming, I took her to the playground area and hosed her down with fresh water, and then we went walking down the path to the point to give me some exercise and her some time to dry off. In the distance, above Port Hadlock, I saw some funny, hump-shaped clouds. It took me a few minutes to realize that a) the clouds weren't moving and b) they weren't clouds at all, but Mt. Rainier (14,410 ft., 99 miles from here).

These two volcanoes are 133 miles apart.

That's a first. It totally doesn't suck to live here.