10-11-26

 

Happy birthday weekend to Bruce and Jacob! Enjoying lunch in Aberdeen after walking around the old neighborhood before slitting up to head back home.

10-10-26

Poppy and shorebirds doing their thing on the shore. Sticks, logs, rocks, surf bubbles, shells, kites, shovels, dump trucks, wet pants.
 

10-09-26

Hello Ocean Shores!  Nightfall on the beach, looking forward to another few days of family, rest, and sand!

10-08-26

Charity event tonight for SEEDS (Southeast Effective Development).  So exhausted but a lovely evening.
 

10-07-26

Small group tonight, Practicing the Way Sabbath practive again.  Last week focus was too stop chasing both productivity and accumulation.  This weeks challenge is a digital Sabbath.
 

10-06-26

Checking out a new restuarant with Poppy in Denny triangle.  Very kid friendly.
 

10-05-26

Wow the skies are pretty this morning! Fun to have mundane Mondays hit with a jolt of beauty.

10-04-26

Outing with the new bike.  Destination: Dahlia Bakery.  How hard could it be going a block?!?
 

10-03-26

Little miss Amelia Earhart loved climbing in and out of this airplane all evening in Issaquah.  All the kids were given grippy socks, which came in quite handy.
 

10-02-26

Just a girl with her grandnpa's keys making mahem.

10-01-26

 Happy October!  Release the Kraken!  Smith Tower is having some fun.

09-29-26

We got Poppy a new bike.  She enjoyed putting it together with Grampa.

09-28-26

MAVen book club.  We have Indian food, Poppy has snacks in the cupcake tin with magnet fun.
 

09-27-26

 Picklewood pickleball fun for Anastasia's 30th birthday.  

09-25-26

Out and about on a fall Friday night.

09-24-26

Poppy loves the Bok Bok park, she even asked to go there tonight.
 

09-22-26

Got my final sticker at a Lunch & Learn today, except I can't get the back off the sticker!  Retail occupancy is only 7% in Pioneer Square currently, that is a big win but still feels like a lot of empty spaces walking around.

09-21-26

None of our glass storage containers match the lids.  It frustrates us both.  After a lot of trial and error, found a paint pen to label the sides and tops of matching sets.

09-20-26

Poppy, her Little People, and a whole lot of distractions outside the windows.

09-19-26

 We took the ferry to Bainbridge for a lunch adventure today.  So many people!

09-18-26

 A super long super difficult week, nice to be at a Friday with WFH.  Banana stand walk.

09-17-26

Spent the late afternoon at the Optum Madison clinic. Their elevators are down so it is quite the upset condition as I headed from the temporary doctor office to x-ray to labs.
 

09-16-26

Got to have dinner with Xander tonight before he headed to the 5th Ave Theater. 

09-15-26

Poppy is home from Disney and is ready to hang out!

09-14-25

When I do downward dog in my Peloton yoga sessions, I see this Little People bear peering at me.
 

09-13-26

Wore a hat to church today and got a lot of compliments.  Most of them from Michelle, but a lot nonetheless.

09-12-26

Walked to coffee at the overlook and this composition caught my eye as the market was setting up for a busy day.

09-11-26

Made it to another weekend.  It will be a working weekend, but at least I can check out for a minute.  It was a rough day at the end of rough week. Checking out a new restuarant instead of eating at home, it has been that kind of week.

09-10-26

Good morning Smith Tower!  I took this photo to share with my stepbet group, but it cropped funny in the app.

09-09-26

This graffiti caught my eye on the way to work and I actually stopped to snap a photo.  On third avenue, where I am normally trying to move along.

09-08-26

Poppy was disappointed that the spray park wasn't spraying water at the South Park playground, so Grandpa gave her a personalized spray experience.  She kept going back for more water fountain play.

I have better photos of her, but loved the sun light and water beads on this one.

09-07-26

The holiday was just a normal work day, but I did take a longer lunch and met Bruce at PAX for some red beans and rice.

09-06-26

The theme of the day is people, lots and lots of people.

How quickly we remember that we don't love big crowds.

The Argosy boat is just visible on the lake.  We were crammed in with 400 people for a 45 minute sailgate to the game, getting there well later than we normally would and got to wait in long entrance lines.

No midgame snacks because the lines were too long and we prioritized the restroom lines.

The Huskies won, the weather was great, still glad I went, but not quite what I envisioned...

09-05-26

Diana is flying solo for the weekend so she came to visit.  Great to catch up.  And enjoy Biscuit Bitch, Super Chix, and Molly Moon!

09-04-26

Finished my last book and turned in my summer Book Bingo card tonight.  12 books total is not a strong showing, but considering how busy life is, I'm happy to have gotten two bingo rows.  And a lot of fun books, can't pick a favorite.

09-03-26

After getting completely soaked yesterday on my commute home, sporting a jacket today.  Fall is here!
 

09-02-26

Poppy on Wed this week, we stayed in the building and played with new to her toys.  And ate snacks since she didn't love Currant Bistro in the lobby.

09-01-26

September 1, Anastasia and I doing a Stepbet together.  I've been walking less over the past few weeks so my goals aren't crazy high, but this will push me to a new conisistency.

08-31-26

Walk with Mom tonight, got my coffee table Mid Century Modern book back.

08-30-26

Everything in my social media is Dolly Parton right now, with her death, so we decided to watch the movie 9 to 5 tonight.
 

08-29-26

Our favorite "chicken" park often has random items left there.  Not sure where they come from.  Today it was a pile of children's books.  So we climbed in the truck cab (this park has everything - basketball courts, chickens, a big mailbox, art to interact with, a flower garden, a water fountain, two playgrounds, and an old pick-up truck) for story time, which was more of steering wheel fun time...

08-28-26

We got to explore the Picklewood pickleball facility in SODO tonight as a church event. 

08-27-26

My bananas from the banana stand are piling up, the by-product of a work from home week.

08-26-26

The microgreens in my Gardyn nursery is growing like crazy.
 

08-25-26

After several days of eating home cooked dinners and after cancelling our date night with Poppy, I was not in the mood to cook.  Ma'onos at Rachel's has outdoor seating, perfect!
 

08-24-26

Pretty sunset.  Feeling cruddy, no walk with Mom tonight. 

08-23-26

Our neighbors get more intersting deliveries than we do.  Sunday paper, but didn't get to reading it today.

08-22-26

Xander playing volleyball at Alki, us playing in the sand while we watch. 

08-20-26

Bruce is sick this week so I am doing all the domestic things.  Including setting dish towels on fire.  Oops!

08-19-26

 Here I am at the dentist again.  I loath every part of it, especially when work is so busy.