We started the new year with a visit from some family. One was a cousin we haven't seen in years.
Saw this inspiring old propaganda art somewhere.
We were driving by Fremont and Astrid asked about Lenin. I told her he was a complicated guy who did some bad stuff but mostly good stuff and she was mostly just interested in his mustache.
Hugo drew a picture to taunt and preclude a certain type of snake.
SODO has some feral cats that go after all the rats and sometimes people leave food but I doubt they're all that hungry.
Reupholstering one of the left-behind chairs.
Saw a place on the map and had to check it out, of course this was parked outside.
Been enjoying the bereal app.
Makeshift movie night, Groundhog's Day on the computer. The kids loved it.
Went down to Ballard Locks with one of Jeffrey's friends.
For some reason he was wearing shorts. The train bridge int he background had just gone up to let a decent-sized boat through.
It came down quickly and a train showed up minutes later. They must keep a tight schedule.
Jeffrey and dad went back to the restaurant with the racy Nissan.
It was full of bits of people's car collections they couldn't fit in their garages. We stopped at the park on the way back.
Got proper plates on all the cars.
Sockeye has her 240 degree scratching post.
Hugo always wants to pose for photos at every viewpoint.
There's a bald eagle that perches on a hefty pole near the kids' bus stop.
They were unloading it off of a tractor-trailer that has a tracks on it onto the tracks, so it can just drive right off.
Seattle community hearing, working on the 20 year plan. Plenty of differing opinions and wildly different life-experiences.
Down at the southern streetcar base.
Some housewarming flowers showed up.
Jeffrey doing his part to disassemble the table top in his room.
Went and got a single-piece table top.
Walking by a discarded hairpiece one day.
This was the point where all of the news suddenly got really excited about gas stoves.
Hugo wanted to keep getting shots of him jumping off of a rock at the park.
This cat must live at one of the places bordering the park up the hill and we see them frequently. Very friendly, very busy.
Went for a hike near Redmond with sis. Doing an impression of tree roots growing over a tree stump
Thinking deep thoughts before the MLK parade.
MLK would have been deeply disappointed in but not surprised by the white moderates in Seattle. That said, good to have a big crowd. Plenty of injustice to be driven by in 2023.
Huey was tired, of course, and insisted on being carried 70% of the way. He knows that dad will carry you if you ask mom, and mom will rarely say no.
Mom made some kind of delicious thing. As she does.
Huey has the screen-watching capacity of a big kid now.
The ratio of older, smaller trucks that do lots of work vs that of newer, bigger trucks that do lots of work is not the same.
Saw somebody waiting for the train politely borrowing my style.
The kids made their own basketball hoop in the basement.
Oysters on our anniversary
AND an English Post-Punk show. Wow.
A trip over the pass for the weekend
Sleeping at grandma's house
Headed out to the moose feeding station. It used to just be a fence.
One of the little nieces loves to borrow the camera.
and play cards with her cousin who is her age.
and get patient uncle attention.
Passing over the pass. We dodged snowy crossings on either end of the calendar.
Huey's getting to be a good at cats.
Mom, susceptible to communist propaganda, sketches stove hoods to send to contractors.
It is evident.
Mom baked some tasty bun things. Dad proceeded to get sick.
Mom went on a tour of a few modes of Sound Transit travel. It went down to her work on the Link, down to Tacoma on express bus, on the newly expanded Tacoma streetcar, and back to Seattle on the Sounder. Then back home on the link.
