At Danny's House
Beautiful garden, Danny said he just followed his wife's order.
Danny's beautiful family
At the seaside restaurant, Edmonds.
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Well needed after dinner stroll Oh, that guy with liberated grin was the designated driver, Victor's brother in law, Jody |
Thank you for sharing these wonderful photos, Victor. Good to see how we changed over the eons. Love to see more from those who also took pictures.
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ReplyDeleteYummy food, spectacular scenery and I bet the companies must have been great!! Nice moments to be treasured. Thanks for sharing the photos.
DeleteVictor, you have done a great job with this blog. The navigation is a bit overwhelming at first if you haven't played with it. But it gets easier and should pose no problem for members to post new material or comments. Members must sign in first before the "New Post" button appears.
DeleteWe had Penn Coves mussels at Arnie's Seafood Restaurant. The mussels there were the best I've ever had in life.
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DeleteOil from sunken crabber contaminated Penn Cove mussels
The owners of Penn Cove Shellfish are pointing their fingers that a diesel spill caused when a derelict crab boat caught fire and sank causing lasting damage to their operations.
There's no more oil leaking from a sunken fishing boat in Penn Cove, but it will be at least two weeks before the country's oldest and largest mussel farm is back in business there.
"Almost my entire next year's crop of seed is out there, and I have a little over a million pounds of this year's ... mussels out there," said Ian Jefferds, company co-owner. "Is it a huge exposure? Absolutely it is."
The Washington Department of Health shut down shellfish harvests on Tuesday, after diesel fuel started leaking from the derelict crabber which caught fire and sank over the weekend. Officials don't have a good estimate yet of how much fuel spilled into a bay prized for its water quality.
Meanwhile, Penn Cove Shellfish is in limbo. The company can't sell any product from the area until health officials certify it's safe. The state will work with federal experts to perform the same kinds of analyses that were used on seafood after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
First, they have to wait for any trace of a sheen to disappear, which could take several days. Then they will wait at least another week to give the mussels time to purge contamination naturally. Because they're such voracious feeders, mussels take up environmental contaminants more readily than clams or oysters.
Inspectors will collect samples and analyze them for harmful levels of petroleum compounds.
Jefferds is optimistic that the process can be finished within two weeks, and confident that his shellfish will pass the tests.
Meanwhile, health officials urged those who have consumed Penn Cove mussels between June 10 to June 12 to immediately report to their doctor for a thorough decontamination check.
"We certainly won't be selling it until ... everything is certified A-OK," he said.
Hold on, there is more.
Sounds scary, right? It's a hoax, partially. The oil spill occurred last year.
You are safe. Just kidding.