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Sunday, February 24, 2019

Sunday recovery day

Sitting here at home, for a moment cat-free, and feeling kinda crummy with the cold I brought back. That's what comes of hanging out with a toddler! When the sore throat started on Thursday, I was pretty sure that I'd be traveling with the worst of early-days illness, but yesterday wasn't so bad. Overnight I spent a while stuffy and runny which was not conducive to sleeping, but it passed and I slept with Embers tucked behind my knees until around 8 am. There was a need to go out grocery... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 23, 2019

heading home

I am sitting in a coffee shop next door to where Elsa goes for her Saturday music class. Then we'll go for lunch, and then to the airport where I will be in plenty of time for the 3:40 flight. It is better to get there well ahead of time than too close to time. I get anxious about missing a flight though it really isn't a big problem as they'll slip you onto the next one going anyway. There is sunshine this morning, with snow forecast for tomorrow and Monday, possibly a lot of snow. That would... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Especially for Kabu and CCT

Marika and I went here today... https://www.flickr.com/gp/therovingeye/Fk8244 Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday already!

Still grey and damp in the Northwest... Chilly here may be the same temps as in Colorado, but the much greater humidity than that desert over the Rockies makes the chill seem much chillier. The mountains gained snow overnight, and there was a thought this area is high enough to see a couple of inches, but it is only wet out there. It's a preschool day for Elsa. She learns more Mandarin there. When she goes to kindergarten and school, it may be French she will be exposed to. Mommy is taking full... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 18, 2019

Monday in the Northwest

Seattle is bustling and even on a rainy winter day, gleams with glass and chrome. We drove up to Edmonds today for brunch, and I had a 'louie' salad with shrimp and dungeness crab. Saturday, arriving around noon, my daughter took me to a Lebanese place for lunch. It was delicious! Then yesterday's dinner was at an exceptional Taiwanese dumpling restaurant. I love how my kids are food-adventurous and know where the good eating is to be found! Kids of all ages are everywhere. Not just today being... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 17, 2019

Seattle Sunday

The sunshine comes and goes, and mostly the Seattle area is typically winter grey and damp. The a-typical snowfall is mostly gone by now after several days of above-freezing, and gentle rains. Like everywhere else, it is more and more difficult to predict the weather. There are two dogs in this household, a small-in-size but not in spirit Lancashire healer who can rightly be called elderly, nearly 14 years old, and a tall, lanky cross around 10 years old between, perhaps, german shepherd and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 15, 2019

Camera-work

A couple of new shots of Embers--this link takes you to her own album where you can see how she has filled out since coming to live here three years ago. https://flic.kr/s/aHskBGRrt2 And here in my photostream are a few shots taken in the fading sunset tonight... https://www.flickr.com/gp/therovingeye/LT7C15 Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 14, 2019

My Dvergr Valentine

Dvergr... It's a word that speaks of one who lives in the shadows, on the fringes of society, always there, seldom seen. I have always lived on the verge of convention, even on the edge of non-conformity. It has been a choice, a value picked up in childhood but not truly embraced until recently. That choice, like all choices, comes with costs. It comes with consequences. Any part of me that values membership in a coterie of friends, has felt the apartness, the uncertainty of being wanted or... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

for a laugh

Found among comments in Facebook: Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say. But I do love bacon! Sign in to see full entry.

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lyophilizing continues...

This morning I put in a load of mixed sweet onion and peppers--yellow and orange--and some huge grapes sliced in half, some sugar snap peas, and a pan of beaten raw eggs. The grapes are iffy--high sugar content. But slicing them open gives them a chance. The skin is designed to protect the insides from stuff like this, also a problem with blueberries, but those little guys are more of a problem to slice. I read that highly flavored foods should go at the top of the machine, but that... Sign in to see full entry.

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