I have been slacking in my weblog efforts again. Even my twittering has gone downhill.
Anyways, last weekend we had bfast with Karl and Eve. It was good to see them as always. I did not get to see Mr. Paige, as he was probably hiding under the bed or somesuch. We finally got to see their new shelves in their living room and their new bathroom/bedroom.
We stopped by the West Seattle Farmer’s Market before going back home for Mr. Kai’s nap.
Upon his awakening, we went to the Japanese Garden. Our membership will run out at the end of the month, so the visit was still “free”, although I am sure we will get another membership the next time we go.
As almost always, we got a little baggie of koi food to feed the fishies. Mr. Kai can now easily feed them himself, although I stlil have to hold onto him to keep him from plunging into the water. Disaster struck as the wind abruptly picked up and blew the food baggie into the water whereupon it was gobbled up by one of the huge ancient koi.
It was not very happy about it, and floated aimlessly about just below the waterline. Amanda left to tell the gate person about it, but she said that there isn’t anything we could do for the fish. Fortunately, the koi later barfed it up and seemed none the worse for wear. That would have been a real downer to kill at 20+ year old koi.
We celebrated the fish’s recovery by going to Blue C Sushi to eat some of his distant relatives. It was one of our rare dining out moments. Blue C is a good place for little progenies, though.
After dinner we stopped by City People’s to look for onions starts, but we did not find any.
Otherwise this week we went to the Farmer’s Market as usual and got more blueberries, basil, and nectarines. Mr. Kai really stuffs himself on berries on Market day.
I have been cleaning off the fences in preparation for treating them again. Basically, I use this bleach stuff, and it works very well. I have not finished the front yet because I am being very careful and trying not to kill all the plants (and thus far have succeeded in keeping everything alive). Since the cleaning is not done, it is very obvious how dirty and discolored the fence had been.
Hopefully, I will finish cleaning soon so that I can actually apply the real wood treatment.
We have been watching a lot of nature documentaries, but I think I will have to give them a rest because they are too sad and violent for me (and a little too voyeuristic animal erotica-like). I need to get back to escapist fantasy/sci-fi/random violence that does not have any bearing on the real world.
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Time to finish cleaning up the dinner detritus.