Archives for January 2007

Complaints

Fay's been commenting on the lack of people-pictures on c r o s s o a k.

"There's too much abstract [censored] " she said "that Berko lot will be complaining, again"

"...and they all do complain, that's the thing" she continued (digging the hole deeper)

So please enjoy the following — normal service will be resumed shortly

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Mowing

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Two consecutive days of sunshine and warmth means... time to get the mower out.

Actually, it was more of a chance to catch up on some [autumn | fall] jobs left unfinished, rather than rampant winter grass growth.

Too nice for the science center

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We'd planned to go to the Pacific Science Center but it was just too nice to spend the day indoors

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so instead we walked down to the water front and to the newly opened Olympic Sculpture Park

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where we discovered someone had dumped some (HomeBase?) chairs in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Amphitheater.

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and also where people were struggling to find things not to point their camera's at.

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So we grabbed a bag of chips from Anthony's and walked along the waterfront to the aquarium .

Now, if only we'd thought to bring a couple of these for the trip back...

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[Yeah - and I left my camera in the car and so you'll have to imagine the beautiful sunset behind the Cascades as seen from Ray's place in Ballard. Sorry]

Note: This post was updated on 2020-12-28 to fix broken links

Pieces of 8ight

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Captain Bogg & Salty at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue

Snow going

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going...

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going...

Found it!

where? under the bed!

*** Found ***

One Nintendo DS case (er, pink) plus assorted games and video footage of exclusive interview with Major Nelson Jr

*** Conclusion ***

either (a) Aiddy is blind or (b) we don't Dyson under the bed often enough


Apologies

Big 'sorry' to not-so-little H in Redmond...

Visitors Beware!

In progress...

H is getting rather too good at Monopoly...

...so if you're visiting, get some training games in before hand ;-)

I love the smell of symmetry in the morning

Chilly

Tracking

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Whilst on the phone Fay spotted tracks in the garden (yard)...

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That's either a big dog, or small feet

Heist!

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We figured out why the garden looked like it was covered in diamonds this morning. Harvey took the field testing of his new (on sale in REI ) balaclava a tad too seriously. But the choice of sled (sledge) as a get-away vehicle was inspired!

Snow 1 Seahawks 0

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A great day with Dawn, Mark & Rachel although the Seahawks did loose to the Chicago Bears following a field goal in extra time: boooooooooo!

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The colours from the setting sun driving home were amazing, and it was clear enough to see Rainier from the Woodinville-Duvall road across the Snoqualmie valley, even with a bit of ground mist rolling in.

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Still Snowy

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The new maximum — minimum thermometer (thank you!) shows why the snow is still here, we even had a little top-up yesterday afternoon

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The morning sunlight had everything sparkling like diamonds

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Sleding (sledging) in Cottage Lake Park

Sledding (or sledging) in Cottage Lake Park. H took top honors (honours).

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At the top of sled (sledge) hill was a growing collection of lost+found (would be generally useful for finding stuff provided (a) there were more than 90 odd people in the group & (b) the pictures of 'found' stuff were geotagged)

Snowman Construction

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Kool! neve erom wons

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Snow means wrap up warm and have fun - and no need to keep a watchful eye of the mountain passes . Talking of watchful eyes , has Ken never read 1984?

Ekk! sorry, that last bit just sorta slipped out, normal programming has now been restored, and we return you, dear viewer, to some pictures of the snow and wintry conditions hear in western Washington...

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More in the snow set on flickr.

One for Granddad

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Some snow resulted in abandoned cars all over the shop, but that didn't stop DHL getting through (although whether they got back again is another matter).

Note: This post was updated on 2020-12-28 to fix broken links

Snow Again

Looking across to B9 Cafeteria

Yup, it's snowing again. This is the current view across to the Cafeteria...

Entrance to B2

...and this is the path down to the car park (no, I didn't cycle today!).

I'm adopting the "wait for the madness to die down a bit" policy of getting home. Other appear to have adopted the "leave early but abandon car" policy.

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