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A couple of days ago it was Halloween. Here are a few rejected costume ideas from the dress up trunk Xavier and Déla modeled. And our pumpkins. As for the costumes the…
There seems to be a stereotype about Seattle residents, and I’ve found it to be true for the most part. By and large, IPA (or India Pale Ale) is the preferred beer. Sure other people outside of Seattle drink it, but it seems virtually everybody in Seattle does. And Pearl Jam. Everybody here loves Pearl…
In the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle there’s a big Fred Meyer. Sure there was some uproar over its construction, but not enough to derail the project. It’s by a local brew pub (Hales) and a ship yard, a paving stone company, a mechanic, you get the idea. More industrial than anything. Sure it’s two…
This morning Ciárán and I were walking home from dropping some stuff off at the school. (There’s no school today, we were dropping treats off for the teachers, and really, the reasons behind this excursion are immaterial to the story I want to tell.) Out of the blue he looks up at me and says…
Today as I picked up the kids from school this afternoon, it rained. That’s not really unusual here in Seattle in October. Or pretty much any other month. What was unusual was the double rainbow afterwards. Now I’m not entirely sure, but I think it was the first…
Let’s wrap this darn thing up. It’s been two months since our vacation, and far too many blog posts. At least I’m finishing what I started. Something should be said for perseverance. Or is it stubbornness? Either way, here goes. On our way off of the peninsula (after checking out Oysterville) we checked out…
One of the last things we decided to do before heading home was check out Oysterville. It is one of the oldest towns in the region, being settled in the mid-1800s. Granted, it’s not Boston, but for the NorthWest, it’s significant. And as one might expect, there’s oyster farming.
It’s been 2 months since we’ve gone on our trip, and almost an entire month went by between blog posts. I’m just going to wrap this series up. I’m going to start with a few random photos of things we saw in the area that were cool. …
Remember (nearly a month ago) when my last post advertised “And Fort”? Here are the pictures of the fort in question. The Lewis & Clark Interpretative Center At Cape Disappointment is build on the site of Fort Canby – literally. The new structure sits on top of the old one. Another cool thing to explore in the…
Part six of an ongoing series looking at our summer vacation to the lower left corner of the state of Washington. After our hike out to (and back from) the Cape Disappointment Lighthouse we left our vehicle where it was and walked in the opposite direction to the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center. …