You should go see “Julie & Julia” at the Palace Theatre this week…and when you do, think of Helen King at Highland Inn. She reports: As a new owner/innkeeper of the Babbling Brook Inn in Santa Cruz, CA I entered a baking contest for the B&B innkeepers in the state annual conference in 1987 in  Continue Reading

You should go see “Julie & Julia” at the Palace Theatre this week…and when you do, think of Helen King at Highland Inn. She reports: As a new owner/innkeeper of the Babbling Brook Inn in Santa Cruz, CA I entered a baking contest for the B&B innkeepers in the state annual conference in 1987 in  Continue Reading

Last week, climatologist/meteorologist Cliff Mass came to speak here on the island – you probably dropped in to hear him. He says while he was here he noticed the real estate guys promising 240 days (or more) or sunshine if you live here – so he looked into it, as only a weather expert could.  Continue Reading

The senior Tigers won 40-something to nothing on Saturday here on the island to get their season off on the right foot…check here for their schedule (and the two other teams) & more. The guys return to action in two weeks, after taking this coming Labor Day weekend off.

Saw this barrel at Marketplace, so I called over at Islanders to see what the deal was – and it’s a good idea. Here’s more, from Michele Morton: Every year teachers are found buying school supplies for their students who can’t afford them. To help eliminate the burden on our teachers and help classroom learning,  Continue Reading

It was cool to see the old cars (and new cars!) at the San Juan Vineyards on Sunday for the Concours d’Elegance…here’s a writeup of the event (it was awesome!)…can’t wait till next year!

This is Whimsey the cat, who rolls around in the dirt of my driveway & is learning to smile & do math. He’s doing fine in the nice pre-autumn air…

I KNOW you wanna go see Keith Urban – well, he’s coming to Tacoma!!! And now, you can go – we’ll take the ninth caller at 378-7275 and you can buy TWO floor seat tickets for only $130! We’re standing by NOW! Actually, we’ll sell ’em to the first caller.

Just got a note from Darren – I was wondering how the video contest is going – here’s the scoop: Hope all is well in Update-land! Speaking of that, we just wanted to give you a quick “update” on the San Juan Islands Vacation Video Contest: More than 7,000 total videos have been watched in  Continue Reading

Whoa, it’s happening today, too…WSF reported the Kaleetan started the day 25 minutes behind schedule; yesterday (Sunday) the Yakima was as much as two hours behind, resulting in lots B & C on either side of Mi Casita overflowing. Meanwhile, the ferry-slowing fog continues…both Chris Teren & Sandy Buckley told me these are the last  Continue Reading