If you smile, through your fear and sorrow
Smile, and there’ll be tomorrow…
So, I get up this morning, see the wetness outside, feel blah, and as I am making my cup of green tea, I look out the window to see these guys. Smiling.
See them?
They look like regular flowers up close, but from [...]
Last month, I wrote a post and received some great commentary relating to a someone’s kid’s need to pee in the park, or a park’s need for bathrooms, depending on how you look at it. We recently learned that Bainbridge Island’s Waterfront Park is not the only park to be lacking in facilities. [...]
Only on Bainbridge! What would you get for that price? Would someone give you a manicure while you sat? Would that include a bidet? The kids would love that. Just as we have a good discussion on whether someone should allow their kid to pee on a tree at the [...]
This is as close as we get to eating like birds around here. See Mr. and Mrs. (I assume) Downy Woodpecker enjoying fresh suet from feeders made for them (note the special paddle shape for them to rest their tail while snacking). Notice she is on the lower, larger one. That’s the [...]
By Sarah Skidmore
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — For three climbers stranded on Mount Hood, survival came down to a live transmitter and a warm dog.
Covering up with two sleeping bags, a tarp and a black Labrador named Velvet as winds howled around them at up to 70 mph, two women and a man beamed signals to [...]
We took a day trip out to Dungeness Spit Sunday, kid, dog, spouse, the whole gang. The spit is a 5 mile formation with a lighthouse on it. I can’t tell you how long it takes to get there from Bainbridge Island because we stopped so many times, both ways. I can [...]
On Sunday, contrary to my husband’s wishes for shopping (he’s the family shopper), we drove to a coastal park. It felt wintery still, around 40 degrees with a little breeze, but pretty nice out. “Pretty nice” here in January is what we said in Juneau, Alaska all the time. Translated, it means “it’s not raining.”
Perhaps [...]
