The sun was brilliant, but the breeze crisp, cold and snapping. Lakebay is a small community along the shore on Key Peninsula in a cove opening into Carr Inlet just west of Tacoma WA. The saltwater here was the most amazing cerulean blue I think I’ve ever seen, so beautiful!
Update on bidding routes and buses: Actually let me start by explaining about in-service, Paul up in Powell River asked what it was. In-Service is Washington State mandated materials and/or information that must be taught to a group of school district employees (in this case bus drivers) in every district across the state prior to each new school year. That’s what we did all day on Monday. Yesterday was bidding. In some districts drivers when hired receive a route and bus that they stay with for their years of service unless someone quits, retires (or sadly dies). Some districts, like mine, routes and buses are assigned each school year by seniority pick. I had 27 other drivers pick their routes and buses before me yesterday. I was able to pick the route I’ve driven for the past two years and although another senior driver picked the bus I’ve driven for three years, I was able to pick one I’ll be happy with (identical actually to the 40′ transit bus I’d been driving). So there it is, ready for the next nine and a half months of transporting kids to school. I transport all ages (although not at the same time) high school, middle school, and two different elementary schools, plus shuttling high school students to a skills center and kindergarteners home during the mid-day five days a week.
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glad you got the same route you’ve had before, and a same-model bus. :) i like this stilted shot. :)
i’m glad you got to keep your route! love this little barn on stilts!
love the photo and that old building. good luck and stay safe on the roads.
Thanks Madge, now I know (though it seems to me just another one of those work force things that make me glad I’m retired!!).
And I like this shot too.
I think the bracing might be all that’s keeping this old building from falling over! :)
Glad you were able to get your same route!
Very nice. So I take it the water used to be much higher.
I think the tide was out… :-)
It’s my understanding that nowadays Postal Service route carriers have to bid for their jobs! It’s an interesting system.
Madge, you have your work cut out for you BUT I’m glad you got a route that you’re familiar and happy with. Good luck, happy driving, and be safe as the school year begins. Great shot…would love to have seen that building ‘in action.’
I like this stilted barn, I wonder what it was used for….. Were you on a boat taking the photo? I can picture you standing in the boat to ”get the shot” :) Bless you for doing what you do, safely driving children. A very special job. I am glad you got the route you wanted and the bus, too.
i bet the tide coming in makes it look totally different .. it looks vulnerable with all its stilts showing
Great shot! Beautiful lighting!
“In service” takes me back to my days working as a (noncredit evening adult ed) school administrator. Ugh. I worked hardest when the day school was out and all the required in service was scheduled when I was pushing nonstop. Thankfully I didn’t have to swim with the sharks in a bidding pool. I’m glad you got everything to your satisfaction. Work is hard enough without throwing everything in the air each year and hoping it lands in your favor.
I’d love to sit in that yellow chair when the tide was in.
With my camera, of course.
Glad you got your route; sounds like a busy life for the next school year.
This image looks so Maine too.