Coming to you LIVE from Spokane today, dear friends. Had a wonderful time in Maine, New Hampshire and New Brunswick and happy to be home and with you all!

So many comments while I was gone! Thank you to everybody who took the time to add a comment or make a guess. Back on Sept 18th, the answer was crepe myrtle. On Sept 25th, the answer was FDR’s wheel chair which he used in 1937 at the dedication of Grand Coulee Dam and I spotted in the Visitors’ Center. The Oct 2nd answer was Sam Hill who built Maryhill and it was Portuguese workers that he imported to work the place…..and they quickly went elsewhere when the job was done. Who wants to live there? The Oct 9th answer was George, Washington, population under 500 in 2016. The Oct 16th answer was……… and I really stumped you this time! It’s a tatting ball! Your answers were close, and kind-of right but if you could have felt/seen that very fine thread you’d have known.

Today’s mystery is this: Which photo of clouds are Massachusetts clouds  and which one is of Washington clouds ??? Answer thusly: “Top is ____.”

(PLEASE NOTE: Due to my traveling schedule, I sometimes do the posts for this blog weeks ahead. If you wanna answer the Mystery question, please refer to the DATE it was posted. Big thanks!)

Today’s Mystery is what is this???  Spotted it in the Pioneer Descendants Museum, Fiske Library building, Seattle. Any guesses? Your great-gramma perhaps used one.

(PLEASE NOTE: Due to my traveling schedule, I sometimes do the posts for this blog weeks ahead. If you wanna answer the Mystery question, please refer to the DATE it was posted. Big thanks!)

Last week’s mystery and photo was of FDR’s special wheelchair that he used when he came to view the completed Grand Coulee Dan in 1937. I photographed it at the Grand Coulee Dam Visitors’ Center.

Today’s Monday Mystery is this: What Washington town, dedicated on July 4, 1957, celebrates each Fourth with a huge cherry pie…. 8-foot square pan with 100 gallons of pie cherries, 200 pounds of sugar…takes 3 hours to bake and another 4 hours to cool. (Humm…do they still do this??)

(PLEASE NOTE: Due to my traveling schedule, I sometimes do the posts for this blog weeks ahead. If you wanna answer the Mystery question, please refer to the DATE it was posted. Big thanks!)

Today’s Mystery is a question: Who built Maryhill (on the Columbia River) and how, in the beginning, did he get his workers?

(PLEASE NOTE: Due to my traveling schedule, I sometimes do the posts for this blog weeks ahead. If you wanna answer the Mystery question, please refer to the DATE it was posted. Big thanks!)

Today’s Mystery is this: Whose special chair was this and where was it used?

Darn, nobody posted an answer to the last Mystery posting…the apparent WW II landing craft beached on the western shore of the Columbia River across from where the Spokane River merges. I even asked Google; nada. Ohwell, the answer is out there………….somewhere.

Here’s today’s mystery: What sort of bush/tree is this? I photo’d it growing in the Madison neighborhood on Lake Washington north of the U of W campus. Brought back memories of another place we lived. Ideas?

Bet you really didn’t notice that three weeks ago I knew I was going to be out of town so I did posts dated ahead for the three weeks…. CONGRATS to Gary Parfitt who knew that the Aug 21st mystery place was the Ross Lake Resort. To Arlene Rowden, Phyllis Griffith and Sonji Ruttan for recognizing it was Spokane (Aug 14th) through that smoke-haze. And several of you commented on the Aug 7th post about apples. Thank you all for reading my posts. I encourage all of you to read, to comment and to read the comments

Today’s mystery is a doozey and probably one that nobody can solve.

Hubby and I were boating on the Columbia River/Lake Roosevelt near where the Spokane River empties in. We went a few miles up the east side and then down the west side. It was along there that I spotted this…. to my ken it looks like a World War II landing craft……. see the end flipped down? It was metal and the right size for such a guess. How on earth and why on earth was THIS THERE????

Today’s mystery question:  Where can you rent a cabin “built on log pallets that float gently on the water?” This is a very remote, but in Washington, place.

Last week’s smokey-air-city picture was my town, Spokane. But I’ll bet your town carried similar photos on their local news. It was darn awful, right? 

Again, sorry, but no names from last week….. I’m doing this early because of attending the NWRC. But hope YOU did think about it rather than experiencing it!

Today’s mystery question is: What city is this, as photo’d on 5 August??

In August, raging forest fires smoked the air all across our state. Folks with asthma and breathing problems were advised to stay indoors. It was not pretty and pretty awful. More so for those who lost property, of course.

Last week’s mystery was all about apples! There are some 175,00 acres of apple orchards in Washington, yielding 2.5 tons of that juicy fruit. According to the Washington Apple Growers website, the most popular are Red Delicious, Golden Delicous, Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith, Braeburn, Honeycrisp, Cripps Pink and Cameo. Personally, my favorite is Pink Lady.

Not naming winners today, sorry, because I’m writing this a week early and today I’m off to the Northwest Regional Genealogy Conference in Arlington. See you there!

Today’s fun mystery is “supply the missing words:”

There are 7500 ______ varieties known in the world; relatively few are grown in Washington with these being the most prominent _____, _____, _____, _____, _____, _____, _____, _____, _____.

There are ______ acres of these in Washington yielding _____ tons.

My favorite is ________.

Nobody had the correct answer to last week’s mystery of what/where is this beach? It was Rialto Beach, west from Forks. Ever been there???