"Weekend" in Port Orchard

We needed to go over to Port Orchard to mow, read the mail, get hair cuts and check on the house so after chores on Tuesday, we drove over on our "weekend" of Wednesday and Thursday.  Traffic around Seattle was tolerable for rush hour.

The campground staff use the tractor with an attachment
to crush the trash in the dumpsters.  This county only
recycles plastic bottles and aluminum cans so the
dumpsters fill up quickly.  

Two doggies resting on the beach.

Some campers left a child's potty by the dumpster. Hmmmmmm?

Sand castle on the beach

Early morning paddle boarders.  I was interested to watch how to get up
on the board.  I would like to try one out before we leave but I'm
not sure I can heave my behind upwards to stand up.  My friend says I could just
sit and paddle which will probably be my experience.

My dahlias in bloom at home.  Lots of raking, hoeing, watering and trimming to be done in one day.

We have 4 apple trees with fruit this year.  We are certainly virgin orchardists.
We did hardy tree pruning 2 winters in a row which seemed to produce
a bounty of apples like this tree.  We know one tree has Transparent apples
but we don't know what the other two varieties are. These are nearly ripe and
hopefully, they will still be on the tree at the beginning of October.

Two of the trees have nice big yellow apples but they are rotting on the branches.
Apple maggot or ants have attacked.  

This little sunflower sprouted in a plant pot on the deck from bird seed
that the squirrel family buried.

We enjoyed a warm evening on our deck  with candle light.

Though the grass is mostly brown, the weeds have to be mowed in the
field.

Blackberries for breakfast from our yard in Port Orchard.  We planted this tree for our Ranger friend, Bruce, who passed away last winter from a rare cancer.  The cedar has grown more than a foot and doesn't seem to mind not getting much water.

Back at the campground, the camp hosts on the North side have left for the summer
and the camp staff are down by two employees over the long weekend so I said
I was willing to ride my bike over there to do the Reserve sign posting
this morning. Our bikes are quite rusty and in need of tuneups but I made it over and
 back to tell about it!  I even saw a deer on the bike path through the woods.

Children's chalk drawings on the road in the North Park.

Leprechaun 

I am intrigued by the need for campers to leave rocks on the tables. It happens
at nearly every campsite.  This one did have a cheerful face drawn on it.

We're guessing this is a squirrel trap??  Or a rock covering a ball??

It's Labor Day Weekend.  At the last possible moment, 3 PM, Olympia lifted the burn ban on any outdoor campfires.  Here is Ranger Josh removing the burn ban sign.  Sonny walked around to all the sites and shared the news.  Last year, when this happened, the campground was a haze of smoke within an hour.  Today, the winds are gusty so there's no smoke to be seen as yet.  Though campers are happy, we've only sold 12 wood bundles in the first hour.