Huey having a normal one.
Jeffrey had a baseball game but we had an important party to make up at Port Townsend so we didn't even have time to change his pants if we wanted to make the next ferry.
One of the kids' several grans was having a birthday party and we were invited. We were given the run of the downstairs rec room, which the kids loved.
Went for an evening walk around Port Townsend.
Uncle Jon having a normal one
We visited the Stabile beach house. The little wood stove there does a great job.
You can walk along the beach and any rock you kick over will have a bunch of little crabs.
This looked like a rice ball but it's some kind of sea creature.
Hard to complain at the beach with fun people.
Cold and windy on the way back.
Hugo looks for cats, feeds peanuts to crows, and shouts at traffic on the way to school. Not always in that order.
Sometimes he hides from the teachers around the corner but they've caught on to his little game.
Grandma and Grandpa visiting from Yakima.
Hanging out at one of our friends' houses.
Jeffrey gets hits just about every game. Sometimes multiple, and sometimes big ones.
He likes to be lifted onto this stump to pose for a photo on the walk home from school.
On the school's dress up day, you can stay dressed up when you get home
Magnuson Park
Astrid has Ultimate Frisbee, which can sometimes be a sport but is often just vibes.
Driving to Yakima through Ellensburg Canyon
Always fun to find old photos when you go home
Career day at the ladder shop
Uncle Isaac got a fresh birthday cardigan. Fortunately he was size medium because I also got size large. What ever will I do with that.
For some very strange reason Uncle Isaac's birthday party was at a kids arcade place. Not sure why he would have requested that but it was his birthday so best not to ask too many questions.
Back over the pass
The kids got a climbing play tent thing and they seemed to enjoy it.
One of our first trees to bloom.
We showed up to a neighborhood trash pickup event and we cleaned up around our train station. Our city council member, who is an absolute bum, showed up and I wish I'd been up to date on his activities so I could have had a word.
Sisters who live in Redmond can just show up for brunch
At the Seattle Nordic Museum, where Ikea comes to life.
Icelandic climate change inspired art room event experience time
An extremely strange but entertaining anime robot someone built and put in their yard
Hey remember when they said nobody would want to ride the trains when they can drive? That was a thing people said.
Trying a nice little Vietnamese place near our train station before a show
I don't know how to take this news
A chemical brothers show at which people were consuming many chemicals but that's ok, it's sort of the theme
Found a box of 1970s boy scout patches in our storage shelving area
It's funny to me how folks lament the fact that Seattle is growing and changing. Cities that aren't stagnating are always growing and changing. That's the nature of cities. Not everything is going to stay the way you are used to it being. People move in and people move on, and that's ok. Your house and the bar next to it may have been great for you, and they served their purpose. Now we need those spaces to serve the people who live here now.
If you miss seeing single-family-houses, just walk a block east or west and you'll see that there's still plenty of those, and many are within easy walking distance of the $100 million+ light rail stations. If anything, we're not tearing single-family houses down fast enough.
Punk spikes replaced with rubber duckies
Ducks hanging around at Capitol Hill Dicks
Visited my Sultan family and this cat was there
Same people, almost 30 years ago in Sultan
Attending a friend's birthday party, but being antisocial
He woke up and walked into my room like this
One of our ferns getting ready to unroll
Finally got that fire pit I was saying I would get.
Huey's class got a field trip to the fire station.
Maxine doing her acrobatics.
Met this cat again. It must only come out on really nice days. The owner has a lovely old BMW.
Take Our Children to Work Day 2023 at Metro-Rail.
They got to hang out with the mechanics for a while and see how they kept the trains running.
Paint booth aka 2003 rap music video
Rode the train around the train yard and through the train wash
We also got them into the rooms where people keep track of all the little details and keep all the parts on the tracks running. The kids loved it and the people presenting were happy to have the company.
Headed down to Belltown for a local music show
Even Jesus is tired of all this traffic
Back at Ultimate, lots of vibes happening
But definitely some sport as well.
Secret handshakes after Jeffrey hit an RBI
May is Bike Everywhere month and we're going to test if all of these painted lines translate into protection for bicyclists. There's a reason you don't see a lot of kids out riding in the bike lanes, and the reason is they're not protected and it's still dangerous. Perhaps even more dangerous than just riding in the road, in many cases.
The Chinese Quince blooming on the side of our house.
