Very Breezy - update

Mother Nature opened another can of Whup-Ass on us Thursday night and it got pretty windy out there



So of course we went out to check out the storm at around 10:00pm when the gusts were starting to really rock the house. We went down to Golden Gardens park, by the Shilshole Marina on the sound and walked out to the point. The gusts drove sand in streams up to our knees and white capped waves crashed onto the beach. The trees up on the bluff were Howling. The sailboats' rigging were shrieking. There were freaky green flashes of lightning which we later learned were transformers blowing up.



On Friday we still had power in the city, but the suburbs and outlying areas were for the most part dark, and a lot of them still are. Even the presses were stopped at our two daily papers.



Yesterday I had one project with power, two without. The guys had done a pretty good job of battening things down before they left on Thursday so we had minimal damage, just a lot of tree branches to clean up on Friday.

So far this winter the score is Weather 2, Seattle 0.

Pike Place

I went to Pike Place Market on Sunday. Here's what's fresh...





mmmmmm... halibut cheeks and lobster. my favorites.

Seattle marathon

Last Sunday Captain Brother ran the Seattle Marathon. He ran just short of his goal finishing at an official 4 hours and 49 seconds. It was snowing. And sleeting. And he did stop to pass kisses to his cheerleaders.

This is his cheering section. They met him at mile 8 and again at mile 21 pictured below...


Good thing they had both large and small flags to wave. After deciding the small flags were too small, they switched to the big ones. After bonking each other in the face a few times, they switched back to the small ones. Until they decided they were too small...

Here comes Captain Brother running up the steep hill...



After he passed, his little girl decided she was going to run too. She ran up to the top of the hill. Then she ran back down again. Then she ran to the car, ran past it and all the way to the end of the block. Then she ran back to the car, turned around and kept running. She ran nearly a mile and then she stopped. "I so tired!"

She was almost, but not quite as tired as her daddy when he finished the marathon.

Soaking wet in Seattle

It's been really wet. It's been raining a lot. And just when we thought it would never stop, it started snowing. In November. That just doesn't happen out here. So here's one for the scrapbooks... the tree lot at the Top Banana in Ballard covered in snow last Wednesday.



Turns out that November was the rainiest month in recorded history for Seattle. Now, that's really not that long, not even a hundred years of records, but it's a record.

Today, though, the veil of clouds finally lifted and all the mountains were out. The Cascades were crystal clear from Rainier to Baker and the Olympics looked positively Himalayan. Tomorrow I'm going up to the mountains and going for a ride in the snow. wheeeeeeeee!

Click the title for a link to see just how much water fell on us in November.