Today we watched her run off to the tugboat races on Elliott Bay. Her friends L and S were throwing a joint 50th birthday party for themselves, lovely old tugs that they are, on the Royal Argossy tour boat. So she spent the afternoon in the sun on the water , talking to many freund and watching some of the races. They are not the swiftest of boats. But she remembered how the tugboats used to push the barges up the Columbia River, and how tugboats, like draft horses, are not as appreciated as Arabians or throughbreds, but how essential they are.
She brought us pictures of some of the old tug friends and a boat that is more like an Arabian.
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