My head is splitting and my feet are killing me but I can't resist posting snaps of today's haul. For the last several years there has been a Yard Sale Day in West Seattle; we've done at least some shopping on the day for the last three years. This year we actually reviewed the list (some 280 separate addresses!) and map and decided on a plan of ( Read more... )

I renewed my LJ account a week or two back and now I'm sort of wondering why. It's such an effort to post lately. I'm tired; I'm busy; I post nothing of interest even to me. It occurs to me that my relationship with LJ is some sort of marriage; you sort to stick with it (though god knows I haven't) because you figure that eventually it will be ( Read more... )

This evening Eli and I walked up to the West Seattle Nursery because it's that time of year when I look at the garden and find the bloomed-out state of most of the plants a wee bit dispiriting. And I wanted a walk. As it happens, a lot of the plants at the nursery also looked a bit past their prime but we managed to find some things to buy, ( Read more... )

Oh, but so much more. Today we made it up to the West Seattle street fair as well as the farmers market. The local economy? Seriously boosted. I, of course, invested heavily in soap because it seems I can't see a purveyor of soap without making purchases. Today I dropped a considerable amount of cash with Pirouette. Karen Gold's products have ( Read more... )

Today was West Seattle Garage Sale Day and while we didn't get to perhaps more than 5% of the 250 sales, we still managed to spend a pile of money on all manner of amazing items we had no idea we needed when we woke up this morning. Is this a great country or what? I'm not sure that I ever truly found something honorable but I got some stuff I ( Read more... )

Today I left work two hours early and I must say that's much better than staying late. I left early so I could get to UW Surplus on its public day (Tuesday) before closing time (6:00 pm) because I so wanted some of the lab glass that had been featured on the UW Surplus website. Alas and gosh darn it, it was all gone. When I asked I was told they'd ( Read more... )

Today I didn't go to work. No, I was home to let Gradka out and in and out and in and out and in which is her idea of a good time. And I was home to check my bank balance online and discover that my debit card had been out making purchases on its own. When I picked up my phone to call my bank I found they'd already called me; I don't know how they ( Read more... )

Honestly, I don't know why I bother going places to look at birds when I find thumbprints and Bewick's wrens, Anna's hummingbirds and chestnut-backed chickadees, and now white-throated sparrows and a golden-crowned kinglet in my own backyard. *While* Gradka gets some time outdoors, too ( Read more... )

Today was a wild and stormy day in Western Washington, causing us to cancel our plans to make use of the rental car to get to either the Nisqually Wildlife Refuge or the Mary E. Theler Wetlands, both of which are featured in Craig Romano's Winter Hikes of Western Washington deck. Instead we opted to visit the old stand-by of the Fill which turned ( Read more... )

It's another warm day in Seattle and, it seems, the goldfinches don't care for the heat. I did not see any today and that hasn't happened in quite some time. It was generally quiet on the bird front, maybe because of the heat and maybe because I went downtown via car rather than walking to catch a bus or to get home after work and so I missed the ( Read more... )