Just one block over...

Today we grabbed lunch during a break in our project (to be posted another day).  And the default these days is "The Brown".  Actually it's The Brown Lantern but the locals call it "The Brown".  Best burgers for sure.  Hey, don't take my word for it, ask Simon

He's looking at his bowl waiting for his food to turn into a cheeseburger from The Brown.

I digress.

We needed a part.  Not a mainstream part, but one of those obscure parts you just hope somebody has sitting in a greasy, dusty bin somewhere.  So we started out by walking a couple blocks down from The Brown to Marine Hardware and Supply.  The mother-lode of dusty bins.  We showed one of the guys our parts and he shook his head.  Damn.  So we walked back to the truck which was parked a block off the main drag.  And we decided to take most of our stroll on this other block we hadn't visited before.  I think it was "O" Street.  And we saw all kinds of cool stuff

There were these cool little bungalows. 

With this cool wall out front.

Check out the detail.

These doors go into a wood artists' place.

Gotta go back when they are open.  The wood art inside is phenomenal.

And it's a work place too.  It had a very impressive shop.

Buck are you out there???

This park was on the next block.

I think this may be some kind of stage because there's steps curved in the background like stadium seating.

Did I mention it's Rhody season here?

Back to the boat, after three more stops (where we didn't find our part).  We got the project finished up successfully anyways.  And in case you didn't know it's Wednesday.  That means Wednesday night races.  Lots of activity in the marina with boats and their crews making preparations

and putting on foul weather gear because this is what it looks like over the race course

Actually it looks worse than the picture.

Meanwhile Dave, Simon and I opted to retreat to the cabin of our cozy home to make some Pasta Bolognese with the excellent sauce we made and canned back at the Holiday RV Park with our canning buddy Leslie.  (Hey Les, it's awesome!  It was worth all that wine we had to consume so it cooked long enough)!  Seriously, we sweat over making this sauce all of a Saturday afternoon and part of Sunday.  And THEN we canned it.  It was worth the work.

YUM.

And shortly after we sat down to eat it started pouring rain.  Gotta hand it to these Anacortes racers!  They are out there every Wednesday night.  Guess we need to grow some gills...

It looks like most of the PNW is getting rain over the next few days.  I hope all your gardens are flourishing and your weeds are drowning!