Back to reading some fiction. I’ve borrowed the ebook of The Black Room by Ian Rankin and I’m reading it on Libby on my iPhone. I love mysteries but have never really gotten into the Inspector Rebus books in as big a way as I have with the Bosch books by Michael Connelly. I should mention that I’ve read the previous Rebeus books in the series but that’s less than a handful and there are many more to go!
Here’s our most recent Troll sighting over on Lincoln Park shore just to the South of Alki Beach which is in West Seattle. He’s Bruun Idun - Way of the Bird King. I think we are going to try and find the remaining Trolls in the region over the next few weeks.
Summer seems to have finally arrived here in the Seattle region. I took some photos yesterday at Richmond Beach and people were out enjoying a pleasantly warm Saturday.
I have been having issues holding my Nikon 6ii camera because of arthritis pain and so I’ve gone out and bought a Nikon Z30 camera to take some of the burden off my right hand wrist. I’ve not sold the larger camera and can more or less continue using it with a Peak Design Clutch but there’s a lot of photography that I can do with the smaller and lighter model.
We recently checked out Pia the Troll on Bainbridge Island. Our plan to to see all of these trolls around the Pacific Northwest region and this is our second sighting.
Uncut Gems is something of a Gem of a movie for Adam Sandler. It took me a while to warm up to this extremely busy film but the last 30 minutes or so are essential viewing.
We are almost halfway through the final season of Picard. So glad for public libraries and in particularly public libraries that have good collections of DVDs allowing us to borrow this Star Trek series and have to subscribe to one more streaming channel! #DVD #Picard
Looking out for critters stranded by low tide here in Edmonds earlier this week.
Michael Cavanaugh wowed the audience last night at the Edmonds Center for the Arts. He was really on fire, as it were, and never more so with his incredible performance of Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Great Balls of Fire”. That was a crowd-pleaser but there was so much more as he played many Elton John and Billy Joel hits in this two-hour concert.
The new Nordic Museum really impresses; definitely an upgrade from the museum that I visited years ago.
This guy is in front of the Nordic Museum in Ballard, WA
Its always worth listening to what Olbermann has to say.
It’s very cold here in Seattle, but we are heading out to make a visit to the Edmonds Library which has just reopened after being closed for months due to a water leak through the ceiling. We avoided the opening ceremony this morning and even this afternoon I’m sure that parking is going to be a problem.
Today I received a membership card and welcome letter in the mail from Scarecrow Video. I’m happy to be supporting this resource of almost 140,000 movies and the store is just down the road from us. Another reason I’m happy to be living in the Seattle region.
This interview on The Lincoln Project with author and historian Heather Cox Richardson is worth listening to.
I’ve just finished listening to the first MurderBot book by Martha Wells which I quite enjoyed. Its style kind is reminds me of early Heinlein juveniles. My daughter has been consuming these stories for done months now so I figured that I’d better get on board myself.
As long as I do it every day I can probably get away with a brisk walk of only 20 minutes to obtain the health benefits. At least that’s what ChatGPT 4 is saying!
Edmonds Pier where a seal is managing to eat the bait being used by some folks attempting to catch crabs. At least what my wife suspects.
The sun is coming out just on time for a walk at the Marina. The Windy app also predicated sun at this hour which makes me happy to be supporting that service.
We finally got around to buying a Blu-Ray DVD player after not having one since moving to the Pacific Northwest. I was wondering if there were still stores that rented DVDs and discovered Scarecrow Video with its inventory of almost 147,000 titles! And it’s just down the road from us. scarecrowvideo.org
This is our second Christmas living in Edmonds, WA and so far we like the climate. It helps that we just spent all of November in New Zealand!
A postcard that I sent to my daughter from New Zealand almost a month ago has just arrived at her place here in Seattle. As my daughter says, that seems like a bit too much time to deliver a card from one first-world country to another.
Just finished writing a review of our latest AirBnB stay which was in Auckland, New Zealand. Without fail, I have reviewed all of the AirBnB accommodations that we’ve stayed in over the years. I like to see what the host has to say about us which we only get to read on posting a review. Also, I think the feedback to the host is valuable which is another reason I continue to post reviews.
This photo of Mt Cook and the Southern Alps of New Zealand turned out pretty well.
My daughter wanted to know the make of plane we flew on from Auckland to Los Angeles and I was not able to tell her.