October 2022

Jeffrey and Oscar working on a Roblox level

Found this on the ground at our train station and had to have a talk about respect for public property with Astrid

Night Owls played game one and were beaten severely.

The cats have settled in to the Airbnb.

Astrid's birthday at the first indoor climbing gym in the U.S.

Birthday dinner with spicy elk meatballs

Going to school on a typical day

Huey and I always look out for cool cars on our way to and from school. This one checked a lot of boxes for him.

Every day we walk by a row of houses and see if Rickey the orange cat is out on his leash.

A mighty tree down by Ballard Locks.

Every day we walk by this construction and often pause for a minute to discuss how it's going.

When someone breaks your window so you replace it with plastic and someone puts a hole into the plastic to break into your car yet again.

Some of the girls who don't like being picked on have formed a martial arts group called "The Sausage Punching Club."

The longer you live somewhere, the less the condition it was in at move-in matters. Eventually you have to take ownership.

Cats enjoy hammock time.

10 seconds after you tell him to stop touching everything or he'll get sick.

We received a shipping container of our things, to include Huey's bike. This part of town is a horrible place for kids to ride so he hasn't been on it much.

Night Owls game two, tied.

Cider making with a friend from school.

Hiking with my dear sister in Redmond.

Be the forest spirit you wish to see in the world.

We live here now so friends can just stop by when they go to Seattle to catch a show.

Oscar likes to help with synthesizers.

Oscar is always ready for Taco Tuesday.

When they ask how you're doing in the group chat and you're on your second month of being unemployed

Someone planted these little squash at the kids school and they just ran with it.

We can just drive to grandma's house now, like when I was a kid.

Yakima sunset

Grandpa chatting with the chickens

Grandma has a few goats now.

Spooky the cat gets pets

Kids can engage in stimulating activities, such as digging huge holes

My old history teacher made his own museum.

Cowiche canyon. We made it probably .75 miles in there before our group wilted.

Cousin time at uncle's house

Some quality uncle time

Back to Seattle, where air quality was quickly devolving

There was a sizable fire on the west side of the mountains getting ready to smoke out the entire region.

Morning coffee with Morty

Took this out of high-desert hibernation and cleaned it up and brought it back to Seattle. Originally purchased at Gregg's Cycle in Green Lake about 42 years ago. Works great.

Butternut squash from grandma's garden

A little house in our next neighborhood with a little model of itself outside

The smoke got worse to the point where being outside was as bad for your lungs as smoking cigs

Put on an N95 and rolled back down to Gasworks Park

The rain came and the air cleared just in time for the kids' Walkathon at school. Dad helped with marking laps on the kids' shirts.

Astrid ran most of the 50 minutes allotted to each class.

Jeffrey did less regular running but a lot more Naruto running.

Getting someone to watch the kids here is expensive and taking the kids out makes everything cost a fortune, so we've been getting a weekly brunch while the kids are at school.

Official Business Professional Work Lunch

One of my old friends just moved to Bremerton so I took a fast ferry over and we hung out for a few hours.

Walking back from the Ferry to the train through Pioneer Square. Some Very Serious People will tell you you should not go here at night and that Seattle is dying.

Game three, Night Owls win.

The U district is really hard on cars but there are a few classics parked around they they seem to be left alone for the most part.

Astrid's grandma in England sent her a 1970s Posh English Grandma jacket so she can comfortably go smoke on the deck.

Mom doing a public outreach volunteer shift for Sound Transit

Time to make further improvements on our facade

Mom telling me to stop getting brunch photos or people are going to think that's all we do

Someone was so sassy that they dropped their earrings at Seattle Center with excessive hair flips and vogues, probably.

Taking the monorail back to the main line

The towtrucks in this town must make so much money. They are constantly nabbing peoples' cars.

Walked down to the water and saw a bunch of cops throwing away homeless peoples' belongings. Maybe they were getting complaints from the people who parked their boats here.