getting closer...

If you ask me, I think it looks pretty great. These pics are pre-snow, but it the current status looks pretty similar, only covered in white fluffy stuff. Once the window company gets its act together and gets us the rest of the windows Calder can start warming his hands while he gets to work on the inside.

Seattle

A couple of weeks ago Stella and I took a little trip to Seattle to visit some friends. I met Maureen when we were both in an MPA program at UW. She and Mike helped me make it through the long rainy winters and long stats classes with a combination of study time, random facts, comic relief, popcorn, and 24. It had been several years since we'd seen each other and they had never met Stella. We had a great time. We barely left the couch. We drank copious amount of tea. We talked and talked and talked. It was like I'd never left. It makes me feel both old and lucky to be able to pick up a friendship with such ease after years of little communication. We ate awesome Thai food, walked around Golden Gardens, had a personal guide through SeaTac airport and Stella and I had time to check out the Woodland Park Zoo. We hope to go back soon and vowed to not let so much time slip by before seeing our friends again. Somehow I managed to leave Seattle without taking a single picture of my lovely hosts but did get a few of Stella at the zoo and the black eye she got after an encounter with the corner of a coffee table.





Real Salt was cheaper at the pricey PCC in Seattle than it is at Smiths in Heber, the town the Redmond company calls home. Guess I should have loaded up while I was there. Go figure.