The Good Life - July 2020

In this issue

Harnessing the wind at the Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility and Renewable Energy Center • Sailing during the time of COVID-19 • Counting the wildflowers on Mount Rainier hike • The not-so-secret lives of bees • This athletic life: Caden Stockwell • A reluctant pickleball champion • Couple buys a project house • Living history: Jim Ludon • 2 doves of a different coloration • Use gentle words during a crisis • It’s healthy to talk to strangers • Men, women, marriage and COVID-19

Two doves: One native, one an intruder

We have two types of doves in north-central Washington: Mourning Dove and Eurasian Collared-Dove.

2 mins

Harnessing the wind at Wild Horse

A long-held wish to visit the wind farm finally turns into a wind-chill reality

3 mins

Sailing in the time of COVID-19

Editor’s note: In the March 2018 issue, Sharon Podlich wrote about how she and her husband, Chuck, retired from growing apples in Orondo, bought a 44-foot sailboat they named Top Cider, and went on a sailing adventure off of Baja, Mexico. They have continued sailing the past two winters.

5 mins

Why two retired apple growers sail

I grew up in northern Vermont. Spent lots of time on lovely lakes, but never sailed.

2 mins

The Fryingpan Fifty

How many wildflowers can be seen on a stroll at Mount rainier? Let’s count among a rainbow of colors

4 mins

The not-so-secret lives of bees

Blame it on Mexico. Back in 1999, during a retreat in a Benedictine abbey in Mexico, East Wenatchee’s Michael McNiel’s duties included tending to the monastery’s bees, and he got stung.

4 mins

THE ATHLETIC LIFE

Caden Stockwell: ‘every race is challenging because everyone has that hunger to win, not just you’

5 mins

A reluctant pickleball champion

Ex-Chelan resident once said: ‘There’s no way I’m going to play that rinky-dink, backyard sport’

4 mins

It's a project

When house hunting intentions were upset by love, these new owners got to work

4 mins

My first experience in apple packing and changes in the Washington apple industry

LIVING HISTORY

4 mins

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The Good Life Magazine Description:

The Good Life magazine is a monthly lifestyle print publication primarily circulating in Wenatchee and the Chelan and Douglas counties area of Washington founded upon the idea the world is a big, beautiful place — we like to find people who are stepping off the usual path in one way or another to find adventure in their lives.

One of our guidelines is that we only report on local people — folks from Chelan and Douglas counties. Our idea is this: other media can go all around the world and come back with stories on war, famine, earthquakes, crime and the like.

We go right down the street and find our neighbors who are doing something extraordinary that maybe, might inspire you to take your own adventure. The variety of our stories never ceases to surprise us: People have shared their adventures of going to some of the most inhospitable places on earth — such as north of the Arctic Circle — to the most hospitable — such as floating down the canals in the French countryside.

Most of our stories, though, take part locally, in the most beautiful area of Washington State, as readers and contributors find adventure close to home. We love the “chapter two” stories where people show us how they have rebounded one of life’s bruises to find new joy in living.