Pod-casting a Wide Net

Family and fun this week in Poulsbo, Port Ludlow, and PT

My week started off wonderfully on Saturday with a family visit in Poulsbo. My brother Joe and his wife Teresa—you will get to know them in my book, since they were along on my first sail on Watchfire with Russel, way back in 1989—and their daughters Emma and Beth were in Washington visiting Teresa’s nephew and his family, so we carved out a couple of hours to all meet up and we talked and caught up and laughed and had a quick boat tour and then made plans for more visiting soon.

It is always a treat to see my family, even for a short time, and I was refreshed and recharged going into the rest of my weekend, full of laundry and shopping and all that good stuff. Plus a visit to the famous Sluy’s bakery for delicious baked goodies because we were in Poulsbo. And of course, each trip down the dock took ages because of all the cute and cuddly looking seal pups and mothers on the floats nearby. Poulsbo pics below. Sorry we couldn’t catch up to Beth long enough to take a photo.

We sailed to Port Ludlow on Tuesday and spent a couple of days on the Port Ludlow Yacht Club’s dock; again, we thought Russel was going to get to dive on the boat and fix that little scraped paint issue on the keel, but again, conditions were not ideal—this time it was rain—so we postponed that job again. Perhaps he will dive next week.

Yesterday we sailed up to Port Townsend, where we have some things to accomplish this week. We picked up a mooring at Fort Worden State Park, and so far it has been lovely and not too roll-y (two of our guidebooks had warned us against it, due to boat traffic causing wakes). Russel and I and Ready took a great hike today, up the very long steep trail and over to Fort Worden, so we are finally back in the normal swing of things again. The honeymoon continues!

Hopefully, I will find the perfect venue here in PT for a book launch/signing/talk which is one of the major things I need to cross of my “to-do” list this month. I have some good ideas, only one of which is a bookstore, so I will check them all out and update you next week on that search.

Recorded two podcasts this week, so the book marketing machine is finally warming up…the first one was with DBoss on her show “Real Life Matters” which she has been doing for seven years. I can see why because she is such fun—she and I laughed a lot and were chatting like old girlfriends by the end of the podcast recording and then chatted another ten minutes. Here is a link to the podcast on YouTube. I will have a link for the other podcast next week. When it rains, it pours.

Something else I want to include with the other pretty pictures is the back cover of my book. You’ve all seen the front cover, but the back cover is full of such wonderful comments from such impressive authors it makes me blush, or it would if I ever blushed. There are reviews inside the book, too, but you’ll have to wait to read those.

I’ll post all the pics and the book cover below.

hasta pronto!