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Oasis Water Gardens in Georgetown gave me some good advice about our cloudy mosquito-infested trough. Also: cats + fish = fantastic.

Our trough and spillway in action.

This website. perhaps temporarily. we’ll see.

My abode. It’s in South Park. More on that later.

My phone, it now starts with an i and I’m trying to figure out how to blog from it…

new phone

…on the way home from Tacos Gringos (which were fantastic).

A junky grey pickup accelerated backwards into our front end while we were all stuck in traffic behind the 2am rush outside Jack In The Box.

And does it apply to bathtime?

Thanks to souvenir Japanese bath salts from Vaughn, bathtime felt a little like the time in high school when I dyed my hair Manic Panic chartreuse in the white plastic work sink.

Yesterday was beautiful, clear, and sunny, so I finally had the chance to take a photo of the Spudnut sign. This building on Pike, a few doors up from the market, has a development sign in the window, so it’s looking pretty shabby right now. Whatever sign was there most recently has been peeled away so Chuck and Peg can see the light of day again.

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Spudnuts are basically doughnuts made with potato flour — and Chuck and Peg’s progeny are still at it. Unfortunately, they’re in Oklahoma.

This list, however, can help you find spudnuts near you.

Saturday we finally made it to downtown White Center (a bit unexcusable, since I’m working on a project just a few blocks away) for other food novelties. BS took us to the Salvadorean bakery for pupusas con frijoles and tasty sweets. Then we wandered down the main street and into the amazing New Angkor Market, where we admired these beautiful pickles.

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After picking up some Asian goodies we made our way to South Park and into an anonymous industrial park to track down the Baron Brewing tap room. In a space not much bigger than our bedroom we chatted with friendly strangers who worked in the nearby marble warehouse and drank locally-made German style brews. Beer nerds take note: this place was great.

New Year’s Day we skied at Stevens Pass Nordic Center with Sherry and John. It was a super way to start the New Year.
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This weekend John once again chauffered us in the Tacoma and we tried skiing at Cabin Creek (a state park) but the parking lot was full, as passive-aggressive middle aged people told us repeatedly once we were stuck at the far end in a long lone of cars. So we went to Lake Easton, skied the whole thing in under two hours (it’s really short), ate lunch, and then drove back to Cabin Creek and did a quick loop there. It was gorgeous out, sunny and warm, so we didn’t even need all of our layers. Yay for Sno-Park passes.
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… reasons I’m not driving to Portland anytime soon.

#2: The Volvo thought it would be an extra funny joke for the windshield wipers to stop working five miles away from the house in the middle of the rainstorm of the century.

#1: The 180 mile trip is 580 now… From three hours to nine and a half. Ten little feet of water on I5 in middle of The Slog makes 400 extra miles through Eastern Washington. Super.

(Photo from “theritters” on Flickr.)

Right now it’s snowing.
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I know I’ve sorely the blog neglected of late — but I’m on my way to figuring out how to make blogging work with my life again. I’ve said it before — but we’re just busier in Seattle. We have more friends, we like to do stuff here, we like just being in the house — all vast improvements over LA. But that just leaves little time for blogging.

Two possible improvements on the life documentation front are my new software purchases: OS X Leopard and Aperture 1.5. Leopard has widgets and I just found one that will let me blog in my Wordpress blog without even going through the webpage. Amazing. Aperture is fantastic photo management software for photo organization nerds — a step up from iPhoto (which I never used because I didn’t like it taking over my organization structure for my photos). So, updates to come. More photos, more words.

Stay posted.