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We have been here in Seattle for 2.5 years and haven’t yet made it to Snoqualmie Falls. But since we were already in Issaquah for the Drive Electric Week, we decided to bug out a little early and drive the last 20 minutes out to see the falls. It was fabulous and a lot of fun. Edward was sleeping for the first part of it. There were a ton of people there, so we had to park about as far away as you can. Then while there, we decided to take the path down to lower falls and wow.. that was a hike. We took the stroller and then had to push it back up. Took us a little longer than we had planned, but we did it! We have talked about going back sometime, but not sure if or when we will get around to it. But at least we can say we did it once!

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Swerve Robotics was a part of the Drive Electric Week program and they took some Drive-a-Bots down to Issaquah. Darrell and I decided to go ahead and take Edward on down there to see what’s up and to play around. It was a lot of fun and Edward loved playing with the robots.

First up: Stopping by the Drive-a-Bot tent.

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Then, we wandered around seeing what else was around. There was a bright red tent that Darrell gravitated towards like a moth to a light. 🙂

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After wandering around, we headed back to the Drive-a-Bot and Edward got some drive time in.

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It was about lunchtime, so since we were already at a quaint diner, we decided to give it a shot. It was yummy, but wow was it a lot.

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After lunch, we went back for some more driving:

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And Edward even helped me take some photos: (I can’t share them since many of them were of the Swerve students and I don’t have permission to share)

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When we first moved into this house, we had talked to the landlord about putting in a fence. Over time, we still talked, but didn’t really push to do much. We finally got the information together, passed it along to our landlord who amazingly funded it for us and then we got moving. Our quote was that it would take about 3 days to do all the work, but once the contractor (our neighbor) arrived to dig the post holes, it went faster than thought. It ended up only taking a single day and it looks fabulous! There are still a few more steps we need to do (i.e.: paint the fence and put toppers on the posts).

Darrell ended up making 4 trips to home depot to get all the supplies and one final trip to return the extra’s we didn’t end up needing.

So, we started by getting all the base material on Friday night. The kids were interested in what was going on:

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Then first thing on Saturday, they got to work digging holes and putting the posts up:

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Next up was the framing:

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Then placing the fencing so it’s a quick up:

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Fencing going up:

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Building the gates:

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Trimming it up:

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Finished Result:

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It looks great and we love being able to let Edward run around out there without having to worry about him going off the ledge or anything. We still have to clean up in the grass to make sure that there aren’t random blackberry thorns or anything else out there but we use the backyard so much more now!

Canning

Darrell and I decided that we wanted to give canning a shot. We were pushed along when we stopped at a fruit stand on our way back from Eastern Washington and they had 25 pound boxes of peaches for $12. We scored! So, to start along, we decided to make some peach jam.

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After we did the peach jam, we made canned some sliced peaches:

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After the sliced peaches, our neighbors had an apple tree that did really well this year, so they had an abundance of apples. Lucky us got a few bags from them and went ahead and made applesauce and apple pie filling:

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After all that, we still had some peaches (We even put some sliced in the freezer for later), so we made some more peach jam since we really liked the first batch.

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All in all, we were pretty happy with how things turned out. Darrell didn’t like the applesauce since he didn’t want to add sugar and it ended up being to tart for him. And we haven’t tried the apple pie filling yet.

Because Edward and Daddy can’t get enough of the bubbles, they play with them almost every day after Darrell finishes with work.

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