My Water Post For Today.
We took a boat trip around Elliott Bay, back in 2016 (has it really been 4 years?)
One of the things we saw was this great photo of the Seattle Space Needle with a black building in front.
I took a look and found out it is currently occupied by CTI BioPharma. Woo.
If you look to the left, there is an area that has people by the shore. Always a win in my book.
The Space Needle, I never get tired of.
I hope you enjoy.
I received this plant 3 1/2 years ago, in a basket with a variety of different plants in it.
For some reason, I immediately decided that there were too many plants in the basket and removed this plant.
It has been growing nicely in my Dining Room window.
Just recently, I noticed that the pot it was in became not round, but oval.
I realized that it was probably root-bound and needed to be re-potted.
So when we were at Lowe's the other day, I got this plastic pot.
A bit on the big side, I will admit, but the plant will definitely grow into it.
I have a problem though, it is poisonous to cats and so the place I would prefer to put it is on the floor, is a no go.
For now though, it seems happy in its new home.
My Husband took the lead on this project, which I documented earlier this year.
Back at the beginning of the year, we decided to place a mirror above our computer.
That way we could keep an eye out on our TV, as we worked on the computer.
Our half-a$$ed attempt got us a crooked mirror and it not pointing down enough, you can see our listing mirror HERE.
He has been mulling different ideas around in his head and the other day he showed me what he came up with.
The problem is, he had only 1 bolt in the size he needed.
So, off to Lowe's, where we managed to get a similar bolt.
We did not have too much trouble with the install and managed to cover over the larger hole that caused the original install to list to the left.
Success! We can watch TV, if needed, from our computer.
My last half year at work, we moved down to the 4th floor and shared our workspace with the Content Production area.
They are much younger then we in Programming and Operations are and so they moved out of the area that we got and they ended up all wanting standing desks.
I personally hated those computer desks.
Fast forward a year and guess who has a standing desk?
My Son!
The only good thing that I found was that I could finally see my three paintings hanging in the living room
Him prancing all around the desk, did not impress and as a matter of fact, the camera finally gave up on focus, so he was fuzzy for half the call.
Oh, note he is wearing his CN Tower tee shirt from our Toronto trip. :-)
Several weeks ago, I decided that our spice shelf in the cupboard really needed to be rearranged and cleaned out.
An idea came to me, why not buy a spice rack that we can hang near our stove.
We would not get to have all of them accessible, but definitely 30 spice jars would be available, on top of the rack we have on our counter which holds 21 jars of spices. Yes, I have too many spices, guilty as charged.
As I placed the spices on our new Extra Large Rack, created by JR Home Decor on Etsy, I realized that I had so many little jars of spices still on our shelf in the cupboard.
My Husband and I went through them and weeded out the very old, the very salty and the free ones that we had no interest in.
That still left about 30 or so spices on top, but it is much more empty and you can see the jars now.
We will take that victory.
I don't think Guns and Roses were quite talking about Covid-19 as a disease, but hey.
Happy 13th Anniversary to my Blog.
Lots of changes this past 12 months and boy did I not expect most of them. My workplace did combine, I did get a raise for the last month or so of my employment and yes, I did manage to get stuck with all the work that my old boss did, before she retired. It was a roller coaster.
So on January 3rd, my final day as an employee at PMG SoCal, I thought my life was going to get better and calmer and exciting.
I turned 65 up in San Francisco and had a lunch to celebrate it. Happy that I would soon be on a cruise ship steaming to Hawaii.
People were in town from Asia for Chinese New Year and some of them wore masks.
That should have been my first hint that something might be wrong in San Francisco. The hotel had buffet breakfast for our 3 days lodging and by day 3 on the ship, my Husband was sick. I did not get whatever it was, until the day we got home. Was it Covid-19? We have no idea, but it lasted several weeks.
We managed to have a good time on the cruise, in spite of it all, trying to not bother people, too much, with all his coughing.
Hawaii was beautiful and we even got the captain of the ship to marry us again, for our 40th Anniversary (coming up in July).
Well, several weeks later, we were all put into lock-down and Hubby and I are together with Makenna. I am sure she loves it.
We saw 1 concert this year, on January 8th and it looks like that will be it for this year.
Probably no trips, either. Though we will hold out hope for something late in the year.
Otherwise, things are quiet here and also at my Son's place. He works from home and his girlfriend goes in just 1 day a week and works the rest of the time in their apartment. In other words, life goes on in Michigan, too.
Travel will come back sometime and I hope we can do some of what we had planned. A few states to hit, a great niece to see and maybe NAB next year. Who knows.
May my retirement income stabilize and the Country and world, recover from Covid-19, too.
Sigh...See you next year.
I was home again last Thursday. As if that is any surprise.
In honor of that fact, we trimmed bushes and cut dead branches on trees and I took photos of my garden.
For the first time, I saw my eggplants coming out of the flowers.
They seem to be white ones!
I have no idea if the sun will turn them their normal purple color, but for now, I am just happy to see them coming out and showing us what they are.
Grow little eggplants, grow!
My Water Post For Today.
I just can't leave Kauai, I guess.
This is the third post I have written since February, about this wonderful Island in the Pacific.
This is near where Spouting Horn is, which I showed you a few months ago.
The rocks and the land are stunning and the water hits the whole area, making it even better.
People who live in this area are so lucky.
I hope you enjoy.
Pete Buttigieg is the former mayor of South Bend Indiana and one of the Presidential Candidates in the 2020 Democratic race.
He is only 38 years old and the first openly gay candidate.
I didn't know a whole lot about him, when we debated who to vote for in our California Primary on March 3rd, but he definitely sparked my interest.
Just moments after we voted, he backed out of the race and I was kind of sad, though I thought it was the best thing to do. It was not his time yet, but I feel that he may run again in the 2024 race.
I decided to read his book, "The Shortest Way Home", which he wrote before he became a candidate. It is a biography of his life, his decision to run for Mayor of his home town, South Bend Indiana and his year in the Military.
He also goes into his personal life, his coming out as gay and his love story with his now husband, Chasten.
I found the entire book, well written and the many issues he brings up as to how to bring back a small town in "Flyover" Country.
He did a masterful job in his 8 years and I can see how many other areas (and even our Country) could learn from him.
Note, the book is not cheap. I got this one from the library.
Our blueberry bush is in it's 4th year.
We have learned over these past 4 years, to give it shade and to give it coffee grounds, occasionally.
As a reward for this TLC, we get a small crop of blueberries.
I was not aware that this week is the time for the blueberry harvest.
I was just lamenting that my fruit salad could have used some blueberries in it and then I took a look at our bush and there they were.
Very good of it, to come through for us.
Me and the Traffic Community of PBS still are getting together on Friday Night.
During this never ending quarantine, it brings us a chance to laugh and hear how the other areas of the Country are doing, Traffic wise and life in general.
Currently we have been talking about opening up in different areas, but I am sure this Friday, we will be talking protests and how we are making out during them.
It seems that 2020 is always something.
Sigh...
My hair has gotten so long that I can now braid the front, like I used to do about 12 years ago. You can see that old photo HERE.
It bothered me, so after the hair dried, I took the bands off.
I still had wavy hair, a good thing.
I wanted to document it, so I took this photo.
A haircut is scheduled for 6/11.
We will see if it gets canceled due to a coronavirus spike, before we get to visit.
See me in 2 weeks.
As if being in quarantine isn't bad enough...
The past 3 days have had curfews, due to Black Lives Matter protests.
Note, that I am totally on their side and support their protests, but it saddens me to see all the looting and destruction of our Country that is going on by opportunists, who have nothing to do with the protests.
Sending the so many millions of unemployed some money, or some way to make money, in this very unsettling and dangerous time, would work so much better than ignoring these earnest people, who have basically had enough of being treated like 2nd class citizens.
It saddens me no end.
Stuck in my house, I saw a really beautiful sunset and did not even attempt to go out to shoot it...so I got this photo from our Kitchen window.
Beauty in the midst of crisis.
I have mentioned this tomato before, but have not shown it.
These are my Big Boy tomatoes.
Up until recently, I only had one of them.
Now I have 3.
They are so different from my many cherry tomatoes and so they make me even more happy, since they will eventually get very big.
I love looking at them all, as I tend to my small garden each day.
Grow little tomatoes, grow...
My Water Post For Today.
Honolulu Harbor at Sunrise is today's photo.
The water was so calm and the reflections were so beautiful on the water.
We were so lucky, on both our trips into Honolulu, because we saw a sunrise on one and a sunset on the other.
What more can you ask.
I hope you enjoy.
