Friday, August 10, 2007

Sequim by the Ocean

Well, we found our house and job....just kidding. But we did get real close. Check out the house at this link: http://www.tournow.net/show/46126 Too bad it doesn't have a garage....I guess if we talked them down enough we could build one. We also found that new career: http://masterlocksmith.com/sale.htm Flexible hours, 2 miles from home and steady work. The search goes on. Hey, on the poll...no stuffing the ballot box please!



For those of you who don't know, Sequim is in what the meteorologists call a rain shadow and airline pilots call "the blue hole." Because of the weather patterns, the ocean and the Olympic mountains, Sequim averages only 17 inches of rain and 300 days of sunshine per year. Quite unlike the rest of gloomy western Washington. They say for every mile you go east or west, you add an inch of rain per year. So Port Angeles, which is only about 15 miles west, gets twice as much rain. Strange, eh?



Today we drove up to Port Angeles and then over to Crescent Lake: beautiful!

Here's the standard link to the last few days pictures:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=3x70wrv.9zzxkcjz&Uy=-ezytv5&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0&UV=812905529035_956508551503

4 comments:

Dorrie said...

WOW...I may just have to change my vote!! What a beautiful home! What a beautiful view and a nice town. The job looks pretty cool too.

Thanks for all the photos...I've enjoyed seeing the many gorgeous parts of the US.

I'm still trying to decide if I should change my vote...I kind of like being in the majority. :)

Juliet A said...

You did know that locksmithing is an actual skill, performed by trained and bonded locksmiths? (My dad was and my brother is a locksmith)

Also, locksmiths are ALWAYS on call - I remember my dad missing Christmas dinner more than once.

The Huni Family said...

Juliet, are you saying we can't be trained?

Good point about the always on call business, though....

Juliet A said...

You can learn to do whatever you want, you are smart people. However, learning the art of locksmithing is not a quick weeklong project. It's also a field where trust is everything - you don't get to have a lot of screwups in the beginning, because you need to be building trust. I'm guessing that in a small town, word of mouth counts for a lot.

Also, it isn't particularly clean or light work, it's physical and dirty, like being a mechanic.

There are also ethics issues that arise. People who want strong locks and safes where one normally doesn't have such things probably doesn't want them for a nice reason. Then there are the people who want you to break them into places they don't really belong, and then there are the divorces...

Okay, all jobs have good and bad parts, but I don't think that you are going to want this kind of job.