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New Seattle Treasure Found

Decades in the making, but finally coming to fruition: The Seattle Chinese Garden is definitely worth checking out if you’re in the city.

Visited bro Chip in Seattle this last weekend to cheer the M’s on to another loss (we love you guys anyway!) and looking for something to do on Saturday. Carolyn looked up koi ponds and found this. The site will give you all the background, but suffice to say after many years of planning, the buildings and plantings and ponds are taking phenomenally beautiful shape. (slideshow follows) Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been remiss…

With the pictures and find myself with an embarrassment of riches.

We took another chiropractic trip down to Pullman today taking both the kids. It was their first longish road trip together and I’m delighted to report, they were model children. In fact, they were incredibly cute…both of them. I’ve been trying to get pix of them together ever since Shu joined us and it’s been really hard. Not today. Shu has wanted to cuddle with Ysabel, and she’s been completely indifferent. Today, he got lots of furry snuggles.

Then, we came home as I was settling in to process pix and post, I went out to the kitchen for a drink, looked out the window, and saw a nice rainbow. Read the rest of this entry »

Big Bridge Done!

Well, give or take the screwholes and some touchup painting. But that doesn’t count! it’s done. We can walk across it! I wouldn’t advise a gorilla dancing on it, but to get to the other side and to be beauteous, it should work quite admirably! (Slideshow follows) Read the rest of this entry »

Snowy New Year

NaM…Day Four

Saturday.

I have an appointment to meet Sharon and Joan for my first ever manicure/pedicure. This wasn’t just an indulgence, but another Necessity: My fingernails were an absolute mess from all the stuff I’d been doing outside, and I thought I’d go check the place out, because someone I know has feet which could use some serious TLC, and this someone doesn’t trust people to mess with said needy feet. Joan and Sharon had set this up and I decided to go with the gang and check it out.

It also meant getting up at the crack of, after getting to bed sometime between 2 and 3 am, because before manicures happened, I had to get the tank’s “extras” up and running, Read the rest of this entry »

Real Time Update

Was going to get into the Real Story of the Fish Tank, but Real Life interfered…in a very nice way. We went to a local pond/fish outlet today looking for the snow viewing lantern we want and…they had platinum butterfly fins! We brought home a Maddy! Unfortunately, Carolyn started putting her in before I had the camera ready, and the camera was low on batteries, so I didn’t really get much in the way of pictures, but at least you all can meet her: Read the rest of this entry »

Alarm Clocks…

I don’t trust them. Never have, never will. Does anyone else share that aversion? Seems like every time I count on one for something important, it fails to go off and when I want the thing to shut up, it refuses.

Now, I realize, this isn’t the fault of the machine, but of its programmer. That, again, would be me. VCRs? never a problem. Computers? Ditto. Wiring a complex of electronic things together, sure, why not? But the logic of alarm clocks, especially the plethora of modern digital clocks, apparently eludes me. Read the rest of this entry »

The red-line Toshi has been replaced…

By a Hewlett Packard. And it’s sooooo cute! It was a quick ship and a much better deal than the same machine custom built. It’s a lot of machine for under $1000.00.

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