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2017 – Days 188-190
See More: 2017 – Days 188-190Friday, July 7, 2017 What a weekend! Boo and I met our friends Mark and Gary in Vancouver, British Columbia, for the weekend. We booked a room at the Skwachàys Lodge. It’s an aboriginal arts hotel skirting in old town Vancouver. While the neighborhood itself was less than desirable, we enjoyed out stay. My only real criticism about the hotel was that it’s actually a mixed-used building; several of the floors are apartments and only a couple floors appear to be reserved as “hotel” rooms. Gastown was only a block away and we ended up taking a nice stroll through the neighborhood, […]
2017 – Day 163
See More: 2017 – Day 163Monday, June 12, 2017 It was another gorgeous drive down to Moses Lake this morning. This is the last week of the school year which means bus inspections, riled children and probably some drama all mixed in together. I’m looking forwarding to being on the summer schedule next week and putting in 4, 10-hour shifts, and having Fridays off. Last night Tiago and I went out to meet friends at the Old School House Brewery in Winthrop. Our friend, Bernie, has been on a 3,000 mile solo trek across the Southwest and stopped at the halfway mark to come home and […]
2017 – Day 162
See More: 2017 – Day 162Sunday, June 11, 2017 It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon. https://flic.kr/p/UqBgER My boss told me a new way to go home. Instead of taking Highway 17 from Moses Lake, through Soap Lake and by Dry Falls, I followed Stratford Road for around 25 miles and then got onto Pinto Ridge Road NE and followed that all the way to Coulee City and then get back onto Highway 17. What a lovely drive home on a Friday evening. I was able to bypass all the tourists with their fifth wheels and campers. There wasn’t another soul on these roads at 6:00 PM […]
2017 – Day 157
See More: 2017 – Day 157Tuesday, June 6, 2017 I encountered this little fellow on my way to shower this morning. Spring’s officially arrived. Here’s the progress of a toe-up sock I’m knitting. I’ve only knitted a couple toe-up socks; I’ve always been a top-down sock knitter, but I’m beginning to see some real advantages to this type of knitting, namely, not having to pick-up gusset stitches or close the toe. I’m using “Judy’s Magic Cast On” for the toe and I’m very pleased with the results. I just have to finish this sock and knit its twin before I can move onto knitting myself a […]
2017 – Day 156
See More: 2017 – Day 156Monday, June 5, 2017 This year is flying by. It only seems like yesterday when I posted “Day 1” for the new year and here it is “Day 156” already. Monday morning, up at 4:00 AM, showered and out of the house by 4:30 AM for my 2 1/2 hour drive down to Moses Lake. This morning was an especially nice drive down; the sun rose about the time I reached Brewster and I rolled into town just a couple minutes past 7:00 AM and dropped Buddy and Little Miss off at the Taj Mahtrailer before stopping at Starbucks to […]
2017 – Day 128
See More: 2017 – Day 128Monday, May 8, 2017 My tendency to procrastination is becoming apparent with my half-hearted attempts at maintaining a blog. I seem to vacillate between really wanting to keep an online journal and wanting to binge watch “Big Little Lies”. 😉 I’ve let my studies go to pot over the last month and decided that I need to keep the distractions to a minimum and get at least 3-5 hours of studying in daily. I’ve still got the ambition to complete my B.B.A. before August 1st. Last Saturday and Sunday were gorgeous in the Methow. Boo and I went bike riding both […]
2017 – Day 120
See More: 2017 – Day 120Sunday, April 30, 2017 The close of another good weekend. Last Friday was my mom’s 70th birthday and Tiago met me in Brewster to take my mom and dad out to dinner. I had dad called family members and around 14 people showed up to help celebrate mom’s birthday dinner at Los Comparos. My dinner was great, but mom said her vegetarian enchiladas kept her up all night. Our friend Shane, who used to be a Marshall in Okanogan County, but now works for a Harley Davidson dealership in Renton, has a police dog, Bosco, that’s been at his house in […]
2017 – Day 117
See More: 2017 – Day 117Thursday, April 27, 2017 What a treat! Last night my Boo and our friend Shane made a surprise visit to Moses Lake to take me out to dinner. I’ve accepted the fact that my beard is becoming ungainly and I think it’s time I go to the barber shop and have the hedge trimmed back a bit. I was thinking of going completely “bush” and seeing just how long I can grow the sucker out, but on further reflection, I don’t think I want to look like a cast member of Duck Dynasty. I’m at a crossroads in my life. I […]
2017 – Day 114
See More: 2017 – Day 114Monday, April 24, 2017 My Monday morning routine is waking up at 4:00 AM, showering, putting on my work clothes, gathering my remaining loose items not already stowed in my Jeep, namely my toiletry bag, computer bag, my cooler with my frozen prepped meals, and my two co-pilots, Little Miss and Buddy, toasting a bagel and be out of the house around 4:30 AM to begin the three-hour drive down to Moses Lake and be to work by 8:00 AM. Fridays are somewhat similar; I generally gather my dirty laundry at lunch, close up my fifth-wheel and take the dogs with […]
2017 – Day 113
See More: 2017 – Day 113SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 After spending my entire Saturday with my folks gallivanting around, I spent today catching up with my chores: washing and ironing my clothes and meal prep for the week. But it wasn’t all work; Boo and I were able to get a nice little hike around Lewis Butte. Meal prep this week was four marina with mild Italian sausage with fusilli pasta, four lemongrass beef with jasmine rice and four Bun Cha with jasmine rice. Spring has sprung After a long and grueling winter, the narcissists and daffodils are in full bloom in our yard. I’m […]