Sunday, February 18: Today turned into the warmest, sunny day I have had yet. And I heard it snowed in parts of the Seattle area.

I didn’t plan on doing anything today so was making a leisurely breakfast when I was invaded by little humans! Little humans who love felines. Waylon and Sydney Bryant came for a visit. We had some interesting conversations from reading by Braille to blogging to cancer and death. Misty wasn’t too sure about being picked up and held so much. She is not a cuddly cat but even though she whined a bit she was good and didn’t strike out.

Waylon and Sydney looking at photos. You can just see Misty over Waylon’s shoulder keeping her distance.

Shortly after I finished breakfast, we all gathered around the pool. It was warm and sunny and the kids were having fun in the pool. Frank and Trish came over to visit and swim. Carl, Judy, Sara and the kids decided to go to the historic prison. I decided I needed to save something for my next visit so stayed by the pool.

Tom and Garth (he and his wife, Lois, are the ones who did the Canada breakfast last week) was laying tile on the bar that Tom and Bill built. Bill was putting a CB in his side-by-side. Frank and Trish left after their swim. So I decided to start prepping for Mexican dinner.

The bar is getting closer to being finished

I cooked the pinto beans in the Instant Pot, browned and added the meat, and pressure cooked for 10 minutes, then just let is stay on warm until close to dinner time when I would add the eggs. No jalapeños, green or dried chiles went in since a couple people are spicy adverse. I did chop up some jalapeños and had purchased ‘Hot’ salsa to go on as people wanted.

Marianne was fixing carne asada and a divided dish with olives, sliced sweet peppers, sour cream, guacamole, and other things to go with the dinner. Trish brought chips and chocolate covered strawberries and Judy gathered all the chairs and tables together for seating and provided drinks including BSB – brown sugar bourbon.

After fixing the burrito filling I had time to sew. I think I am liking this bag much better than other rejected one. I even tried to give the little one to Sydney but she didn’t seem interested. Smart girl.

What with the cooking and 80 degree temperature it got fairly warm in the camper. At one point I decided to try the air conditioner. I had never turned it on before. It cooled things down fairly well but was really noisy and I was trying to watch Olympics while sewing so I turned it off and opened all the windows again. The air conditioner has a fan only function but it also was pretty noisy. But there are times when just a fan blowing will probably be enough to keep things comfortable.

Garth had been diligently working away all afternoon and Lois came over to find him so they were invited to join in the dinner. She wondered if there would be enough. She doesn’t know that I can’t seem to cook for anything less than a club sized crowd. Lol.

It was a good dinner with good company. A few shots of tequila and BSB were had by some Then it was time to sit around the fire pit. The wind had started picking up early afternoon and by this time is was blowing really hard. Bill and Carl put up a Husky tarp or something on the south end of the canopy to try to block some of the wind, but it could only do so much. The forecast actually called for it to be windy on Monday but I wonder if it came early.

The party broke up fairly early. On my part because I was tired of the wind. I finished cleaning up the dishes and went to bed to watch the Olympics.

There was not as brilliant of a sunset as the night before but the sliver moon looked cool in the clear sky.