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Well, not so much a winery anymore. The wine tasting room has been
replaced
with an antique store. The restaraunt is still there, though.

That stinks! Oh, well, "progress." Many years ago, my son and I would
stop there on the way to my mother's house. It was a good experience, and
I even found a couple of wines I liked, in fact still have one or two
someplace around here (packed when moving). Since I'm not a wine drinker,
that's definitely a compliment to them. We were always going to time it
to have dinner there near sunset. The view has to be incredible. Sadly,
it was a "next time" thing, and now it will never be. Ironically, he is
the one that was most concerned about me getting out and living my life
fully. When I told him there was lots of time left for me, his response
was that there was less than we knew. A lesson I should have already
learned since my little sister died the day before her 21st birthday
leaving behind two babies. Though my son had only 25 years on this old
earth, he did, indeed, live his life fully, living more in this seven
years of adulthood than most live in 50 or more.

One of his many accomplishments was set design and construction for
different high school/college productions around town. No one every
taught him, he just took to it naturally. It's one of the many things
that are part of the everyday life that we take for granted. With him
here, it wouldn't have taken five years to get my table saw back into
service after buying this house! (Of course, I'd probably have never
gotten near it either.)

Stump Lake? You mean Lake Tapps? I always thought it was cool that they
let the water out of it each year. Allows the shoreline property owners
the
opportunity to build/work on their docks. Yeah, when the water is out,
the
stumps look pretty nasty, but when the water is in its proper place, the
lake is one of the most beautiful around.

Yup, that's the one. I could never believe that people would even
consider swimming there! Yuck. I never did hear the story of how it came
to be stumps in a lake. Did they cut the trees and later divert water to
there? I doubt it is like our "stump farms" on the slopes of Mt. Saint
Helen. You probably figured out that it apparently always had the stumps
showing "way back then." g

Do you know if those were Douglas Fir or perhaps Oak trees? For as long
as they've been there, it seems like they must be hardwood. Maybe there's
an old-timer around that knows.

Glenna