I'm sitting here at Horseshoe Lake County Park, over the Purdy Spit bridge in Kitsap County. If you live west of the Narrows Bridge and get a chance, stop by here.

It's bright and sunny, a nice 65 or so degrees. There are teen-agers pulling up in their cars, cruising the parking lot.

The young guys are taking off their shirts, flexing for their female counterparts. I figure I'm working, so I probably shouldn't do the same. Actually, were I to take off my shirt, it would strike fear more than anything. (Hey, I'm a dad with a paycheck and easy access to donuts. Cut me some slack)

Really, if you have a chance over the Memorial Day weekend, this is just one of the many parks on the Kitsap Peninsula in which you can lounge. It's like Malibu Beach, only instead of BMWs, everyone drives a Subaru wagon.

The American Heart Association will honor a Gig Harbor woman who saved her husband’s life after he collapsed last year.

Carol Putnam, 45, will receive the association’s Heartsaver Award for performing CPR on Kirk, her husband, who went into cardiac arrest July 19, 2008. The awards are part of association’s weeklong celebration of CPR and AED (short for automatic external defibrillators) June 1-7.

Putnam called 911 and performed the procedure to get her husband breathing again, according to a release from the association today. Minutes later, crews from Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One arrived and restarted Kirk Putnam’s heart with a defibrillator.

The 45-year-old worked as a lead mechanic for Gig Harbor Fire for five years. He's been diagnosed with cardiac sarcoidosis, a heart condition that caused his collapse. Since the 2008 incident, he has been on medication, and doctors had a small defibrillator put in his chest.

Putnam learned CPR while serving in the Army. She and her husband have been married for 25 years. They have two sons.