Island notes this morning….

Coming home: Sunset from the Anacortes ferry at the dock...it always feel to me like I'm already home, when we're all settled in for the ride to Friday Harbor....

Hope your morning is off to a good start…let’s see what’s going on:

• Tonight’s the OPALCO power outage at 11pm…lights should be back on by 6am on Friday morning!

Great to see Carla & Dan at the Tooth Ferry's grand opening last weekend!

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• Elizabeth Schubert says: “I heard my dear hubby talking to our almost three year old daughter: ‘You can’t go outside naked. No, not even with your shoes on.’ ”

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• Kurt & Peggy Long tell me they closed the dive charter shop (NakNek Charters) a few months ago & took over Shu’s job as caretaker on Brown Island. They tell me Mike & Jan at Friday Harbor Marine are still filling tanks….

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• Yesterday & today, photographer Mark Gardner has shot over 800 kids at the schools…

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• Dave Calhoun: “When I was a kid, my mother said don’t take life too seriously. I might have taken that a little too far.”

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Always making things better: Ted Strutz is helping Regan move her shop & studio into the space next door, at the Corner Store. Drop by tomorrow, when the job's done & check it out!

• Denny & Joy Sevier at San Juan Wireless tell me Verizon now works with iPhones & iPads, and they will have them in the shop by tomorrow or so….

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• You know, I have heard nothing but great things about the job Stella & Pat have done with Zip San Juan this summer…all summer long when I would ask visitors what they did on the island, when they reported they went zippin’ they would light up & take out their cameras to show you pictures & just glow. Good to have that kind of thing happening here! Way to go, guys!

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Gabe & Jennifer Herda caught this nice shot of their girl Sidney at the beach....

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• What’s new: Jenny at the Bean just got her ears pierced. Really. Check when you go in.

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According my brother, an exchange between my mom & dad when I was home, with the tenderest of tone by Dad:

Mom: Did you let the cat in?
Dad: Yes, I let the cat in.
Mom: Did you close the door?
Dad: Yes, it’s closed.
Mom: Did you lock it?
Dad: Yes, it’s all locked up.
Mom: You’re sure?
Dad: I’m sure. I wouldn’t want anyone to come in here & steal you.

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