Picking Strawberries With Nicole

As you may remember, one of the first blog entries I ever made on this blog was "Strawberry Picking" in July of 2010. It contains some very similar pictures of Nicole and me. This time we're at a place called Peoria Farm Market. We were lured there by a coupon for a free tomato plant. Then the strawberries enticed us to stay. 

Nicole looking good in the strawberry patch

Me, looking good in the strawberry patch

It's Always Good To Be Politically Correct When Ribbing Your Friends

Jaimee, Andrew and I went to Sherri's for desert. It was a cold, clear Friday night. The sound of Jaimee's shivering in the back seat rattled the car.

Andrew glanced back at her in the rear-view mirror. "You sound like a mentally handicapped turkey."

An October Adventure with Rose Part 2

Yep, Rose definitely sees me trying to sneakily take her picture. 

Uh oh, I think she's taking my picture!f

Gull hangin' out

So our adventure took us down to Alki beach and along the water front.

Cormorant

Same Cormorant but he's looking around

He's still looking around. Yeah I like Cormorants.

Cormorant holding up his wings to dry them while is friends preen. 

The color of the water has changed

The fog retreats

Sunlight through the mist

Pretty leaves

Rose looks a lot like her mom in this picture

The mysterious pathway beckons

We are going to have to climb back up the hill to get back to my house. Good thing our road look exciting. But wait!

What is that poking up above the fog?

Downtown Seattle appears as if by magic

Also the Sea Lions- due to the incredible zoom on my camera you can actually see them better in this picture than you could standing on the beach.  

A Few Things Mostly Sad But Not Heartbreaking

A few things that I wanted to write about for posterity. Non of them are earth shattering (because as you know the world revolves around me)

1. Anna, the chicken died about a month ago while I was visiting my parents. I said hi to her along with the rest of them when I arrived. The next morning Mom found her dead in the chicken house. I went out to look at her body. It looked like she had died in her sleep. It's an unusually peacefully way to go for a chicken. That makes it a little less sad somehow.
Mom said that Trouble was staying in the hen house with Anna's body. The two of them were friends especially. Trouble is the lead chicken and Anna was at the bottom of the pecking order and Trouble kept Penny from picking on Anna too much.

2. Andrew didn't get that job. Yeah, you guessed that already. If he'd gotten the job I surely would have written something about it.

3. My Masters of Engineering Final Oral Examination is coming up. It looks like it will happen December 5th. I'm scared. I don't think they are in the habit of failing people but what if I just spin in a circle an pea myself like Micky (my parents dog.)

4. I've been depressed, bored and lonely a lot lately. It's a hard life stage. Andrew's done with school and looking for a job, but no job yet. I'm almost done with school and looking for a job but no job yet. A lot is uncertain and I have a hard time finding things to be proud of myself about. I'm constantly falling short of my own impossible expectations.

5. Here's something happy. My friend Kate got her dream job as a Head Start Counselor. She finally gets to do what she loves for a living.

An October Adventure With Rose part 1

As is turns out our neighborhood (West Seattle) is home to a locally famous and extremely popular bakery. The lines stretching into the sidewalk on weekends make it easy to find.  I, however, am not a bold enough pastry lover to be willing to deal with the weekend crowds.

Fortuitously, Rose and I set forth upon an expedition one foggy morning that was not weekend. First we mailed one of Rose's old text books. Then to Bakery Noureau  we went (home to the famous phoenix cake which I misheard and mistook for Kleenex cake.) 

By the time I remembered to take a picture of my delicious food, this was all that was left of my pastry

Don't worry the pigeons don't come with the deserts. They just hang out outside. I saved some morsels of pastry and a big glob of whipped cream just for them. That's what they've managed to get all over their feathers. 

These are some very happy pigeons.They are making the contented pigeon coo as they eat. 

Mysterious and creepy fog

Mysterious and creepy Rose

Rose- "Rah! Rah!" 

Run away!

A beautiful view of water and apartments. 

We tramped down to peer into the pools along the shor and look what we found.

Rose, the daring explorer takes a picture.

House sparrows (I think).

Me with the Puget Sound in the background

A handsome sparrow indeed

I am taking sneak pictures of Rose

I think she may have noticed

Salt Creek Falls (part 4)

It Really Was This Impossibly Sparkly

Peaceful

Chillin On The Bridge

 

I This Is My Favorite Picture of The Snow

Going Home

Stopped For Coffee in Eugene

Wandering Goat Usually Has Pretty Good Coffee

hmm... Andrew doesn't seem to the so. Maybe he doesn't want me sticking the camera in his face. 

Can't A Man Drink His Coffee In Peace?

I'm Falling Asleep

This picture is funny

Jamie Looks Like A Vampire

What A Handsome Guy