11-30-22

 

Love this little guy!

11-29-22

 

Merry Christmas!  It's been white outdoors too with some snow this week.

11-28-22

 

A different walk this morning, fun to see the Christmas deer.

11-27-22

 

Amazon has a big campfire at the ski lodge display.  It's fun, but unfortunatley it doesn't give off any heat!

11-26-22

 

Tree lighting ceremony at Pike Place Market tonight.

The market was busy today, almost to pre-pandemic levels.

The custom market wrapping paper was a great perk, spending $50 with retailers isn't very hard.

11-25-22

 

 Tonight was the tree lighting ceremony at Westlake Center.  We were all watching the star and fireworks when I noticed that Santa had his phone out.

11-24-22

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Everyone who normally comes was here this year, it was a bigger group.

Fun to have fire pit weather too!

11-23-22

 

We tried the new Asean Eats restuarant at Westlake Center today.  It was on the expensive side, but a keeper for sure.  Especially the croffle (croissant waffle).

11-22-22

 

Walked on the east side of Second Ave to get to Walgreens for flu and COVID shots, so I took a closer photo of the new mural I like.

11-21-22

 

Staycation, day 1.

Focused on things that take energy today, before getting immunizations.

Wrapped gifts, made fruitcake cookies, shopping, chores.

11-20-22

 

We made up for being slugs yesterday with more steps today.  I was pleasantly surprised to be able to take a phoot with the portland whte stag sign.  Thankful for sunny dry weather, wish it was a tad warmer!

11-19-22

 

I only have food photos today, because food and shopping and rest are the only things we did.  We tried to go to the Japanese Garden, but no parking.  I think a chill weekend is just what we need.  And this red beans and rice was pretty darn good!

11-18-22

 

We FINALLY made it to our Bohemian Airbnb in Portland.  It was an extra long drive, leaving work at 2:30pm and arriving at close to 10pm due to a 16 hour I-5 closure.  We turned around once, stopped to le tthings open up twice, and attempted three different routes.

11-17-22

 A block well travelled, between Viktoria and Target.  Getting a new mural painted.  Love how they have different styles that merge and play with each other, and especially love the blue haired singer.

11-15-22

 

Rush to Ballard to drop of the packed Opertion Christmas Child shoeboxes during the only window we can make.  Forgot to take any photos, but enjoyed walking around a different place after that.  This building was all lit up and fun.

11-14-22

 

Monday night family dinner at Viktoria.

Three of us love mujadara: rench lentils, spiced rice, caramelized onions, pickled cabbage, garlic yogurt, fresno chilis (or not), pepita

11-13-22

 

The great chocolate fruitcake baking day.  So much for avoiding homemade projects.

11-12-22

 

Coal chute tour on Capital Hill!  We ran a bunch of errands, but also visited three old buildings and went on the hunt for the coal chutes from days when coal was delivered into the basement.

11-11-22

 

Womens worship night at church tonight, a great way to herald in a restorative weekend.

11-10-22

We had happy hour for the local Finance staff this afternoon.  It was quite the dive bar, but it was literally across the park from the office.

11-09-22

 

Time to head back home and get to Captial Hill for a 4:30 hair appointment.

11-08-22

 

Day two working at the Thornton house.  The cats are warming up to me.  Poe is liking me less at med time, but more the rest of the time, and Flynn wants to follow me everywhere, sit on my lap, and meow insistently.

11-07-22

Day 1 of WFH from the Thornton house.  The Peloton is fun to check out and Poe is taking his meds pretty good.  The house is cold and the cats are aloof.  Evening brings lots of TV and not any walking.  But overall pretty seamless.

11-06-22

 

We visited Octave 9 today to learn about the Mogao Caves in China.  This 50 foot reclining statue in cave 158 is so cool.  These are Buddha grottoes with paintings and statues.

11-05-22

 I love looking at the window display downtown.  Its hard to photograph, but still fun.

11-04-22

 

This was my view from the doctors office today, above the monorail tracks.  Cool perspective.

11-03-22

 

Look at this adorable light!  I'm hoping it can be used a reading light in bed, Bruce thinks I'm silly.

11-02-22

 

A pretty evening downtown.  This may be the epi-center of the breakdown of our social fabrice, but it is still a pretty awesome place to live.