Anniversary

We celebrated our 12th anniversary today, with anniversary wishes pouring in from our friends and family. Nanci made a banner to wish us well and to remind us of adventures past and to come. Our friends took us out for coffee and apple fritters at Lattin Country Cider Mill and Farm, where we also got to feed several of the hungry farm animals, including peafowl, turkeys, goats, chickens, and more goats. The most unusual animals were some fluffy chickens with feathered legs, which we found out are called Silkie Bantams.

Then Tom took us on a brief tour of Olympia, which is where he grew up. We stopped at Olympia Farmers' Market and saw the Capitol.

Jeff and Rebecca called Ken to wish him a happy Fathers' Day. Both of them seem to be doing well, and it was good to hear from them. Cathy is competing at the black belt level in karate now and won first place in two events at a recent tournament.

Nanci cooked us a delicious anniversary dinner, topped off with fresh raspberry pie and ice cream. Afterwards Tom regaled us with some Blue Collar Humor from the Comedy Network, featuring Jeff Foxworthy and the Cable Guy, among others. We laughed ourselves silly.

This afternoon we finally got the TIVO working with DirecTV. Tom came over to watch, and perhaps it was his positive energy that led to our discovering the main problem: the S-Video cable had fallen out of the back of the DirecTV (that's my story...but maybe somehow I forgot to connect it?). It always seems to take hours to get electronics set up, and we stopped without figuring out the cable and antenna hookups. Those can wait for another day.