On my walk today to pick up LK from daycare, I passed innumerable dead birds. They were seriously all over the place. There was even one hanging in a tree right by our house. Freaky.
Otherwise, life has been on the static side. We did go to Heather and Andrew’s wedding a couple of weekends ago at Pritchard Beach Park. I had never been, and it is very close to us; it’s very close to our gym. Amanda made their cake, and everyone raved about it. It was a tiered combination red devil / carrot cake by request of the wedding couple.
We went to the Olympic Sculpture Park last Saturday. There were all sorts of salmon presentations and exhibits and such around for a special event. We noted that it looks like they are actually done with construction, and a lot of the landscaping/native plants have grown much bigger since our last visit. It will probably look pretty cool next season.
There was(were) a new sculpture(s): a few very large orange traffic cones were scattered about. Large as in maybe 20 feet large. We considered the first one we saw and said: “Is this art?”. A passing museum worker said: “It’s supposed to be.”
Later as he walked out of a maintenance room he asked if we actually saw any art. That’s the spirit!
Sunday I canned a lot of relish in the morning. Later we went to a woman’s home in West Seattle to check out her plant sale. She had a couple of small greenhouses and a lot of grow lights in her basement (hiding something else perhaps?). We got a few strange spinach starts and some onions. They were cheap. It was the second day of her sale, so she did not have a large variety of things left.
We thought about hanging out at the beach at Alki, but LK started freaking out, so we axed that idea. He calmed down a bit on the West Seattle Bridge, so we decided to go to the Japanese Garden. It was cool, as always. There were little koi! Unlike the large koi, they always swim about in a big school. Perhaps wise, because the heron was there and was being very predatory. He was far more active than I had every seen him. A harsh life lesson for Mr. Lonan Kai! but he was more interested in pulling my hair than observing any carnage.
As for the typical life stuff: Amanda is working (0.8 FTE); LK goes to daycare; I now have quite a bit of consulting work I can do, so I am working on that while doing the usual search for the Next Thing.