Congrats to Clay Aiken :)

See that BIG space above our sign? There used to be a Graham Greene poster promoting reading there. Someone swipped it (none of the staff knows anything lol). Used to see the poster every day as I headed down the stairs to the library.

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Yesterday, we went to Longview (hour away) to shop at Winco and get lunch/dinner at Izzy's.

On the way back home...
This is not a comforting site on the freeway:


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Okay, here's a brief wrap up of all I got up to in Seattle ( Read more... )

All in Seattle now :)

I took a few (okay, a lot) of pictures from the train. There is this really gorgeous spot about an hour into the (2 hours) train ride, so peaceful. It was really cloudy and hazy out, but I think it just added to the atmosphere.


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The back of the library is all finished looking!!

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Ummm...look at the scientific calculator I got for a dollar...though I really only use it to add, subtract, and all that good simple stuff.

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Here are some pics of the bread I made yesterday---yes, I have started to take pictures of everything lol


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Mom and Dad were off at church and a large lunch today, so they were gone until about 5-5:30. Was nice...I didn't get out of bed until almost 1:30, started some bread in the bread machine, picked some large blackberries from the same patch that I did from on Jeff's last day here:

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Guess this is an opportunity for me to be visually creative, lol....

So, we have this tri-folding medicine cabinet in the bathroom:

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