Seattle goings on
As we try to settle in to our new house, we find ourselves oddly short of things we didn’t know we needed. We got rid of our microwave when we remodeled our kitchen in the ex-house. We had ceiling lamps and did not need floor lamps. We did not have room for a full size …
Here‘s a handful of pictures of what’s underneath 60 plus years of paint and trim.
There is no denying it. It is wildly suburban where we are. When I could not sleep I wandered upstairs and looked across the street into the neighbor’s house where, at 2am, the TV was on. And around 730 or so, messy headed teenagers shuffle to the corner just over there to catch the school …
I don’t think of myself as a snob or a connoisseur. I suppose all that time devoted to eating cake in Austria as though it were thesis research does lend give me a bit of cred when faced with a bakery case. That’s why B. was reluctant to take me to Bakery Nouveau, the newish …
Photos from my trip to Mount Adams are here.
Yeah, Al Gore wants you to turn off your air-conditioning, go carbon neutral, use those awful fluorescent bulbs, drive a Prius, etc. etc. amen. Yeah. We get that, thanks, Al. We get that the whole global warming thing means maybe we should not burn through a whole lot of fuel to get across the planet …