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Have you been to a Cabela’s?
Do you even know what Cabela’s is? I knew. I’d seen the catalogs. Heck, I’d even ordered from their slim selection of women’s clothes (pink camo IS coming back).
But none of that prepared me for their new store in Washington, south of Tacoma in Lacey.
Think REI, but […]

As you may know (read, people, read!), we had a little road trip down to Newport, Oregon last week.
We didn’t DO that much, a fast aquarium visit –fast, because two pools back at the hotel were calling for Kid (square pool over watching otters and sea lions eat?? Kid needs to reorganize her priorities!).Little […]

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Recent local news to gross you out educate you on the state of really long, and super-gross and slimy almost extinct giant worms:
By JOHN K. WILEY, Associated Press Writer
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Parts of an earthworm found near the Cascade mountain town of Leavenworth have challenged scientists’ contentions that a unique, 3-foot-long native species […]

Yes, it’s April. Which, in these here parts, means Skagit County Tulip Festival. It goes through the whole month of April.
Since the weekend forecast calls for rain and snow *sigh*, I thought I’d share some snaps from earlier this week.
There were the usual brilliant colors.
Nicely laid, row after row.
And the usual attitude from […]

Well, they had a little thing here Saturday called a “caucus.” Perhaps you heard. And by “here,” I mean across the street from my house.
I didn’t go (I know, tsk, tsk). I didn’t go because I had a writing class I decided was more important than our nation. I’m selfish that […]

adjective:
Extremely cold; icy.
The weather is gelid on a recent Thursday night–so uninviting that it’s hard to imagine anyone venturing out.
– Letta Tayler, “The Accent’s on Brooklyn”, Newsday, April 6, 2000
Gelid comes from Latin gelidus, from gelu, “frost, cold.”

This is what it’s NOT here. But I like the mild, low maintenance winters here after several […]