Today is a holiday for me. At age 68 (two years past my full retirement age of 66), I am working full-time (actually, more than full-time with all the overtime I put in), at a job I love, and with a side interest for my professional association. As a Planner/Buyer for an aerospace company, my …
Continue reading On This Labor Day…Proudly Working and Supporting Myself at Age 68
This is A Structure. To wit, a city apartment building, seen from about a block away. Seems pretty ordinary. But move closer, and its fine structure becomes more visible. And more pleasing. The bow windows lend a bit of class, and make the room inside bigger, and bring more natural light into the room. Then, …
This structure is in a pretty desolate corner of the world, on the bluff overlooking the Columbia River in north central Washington State. It also has a multitude of corners, angles, and intersections. You wouldn't want to get caught by the sharp tip of one of those blades! Stationary, it almost looks like a piece …
I love living in the Pacific Northwest, where the abundant rain contributes to a profusion of plant life. Here in the temperate rain forest ecosystem, life grows in many layers. Green growing things have other growing things on top of them. Take this tree, for instance, at Rockport State Park, in the foothills of the …
Continue reading Photo Challenge, Collage. One Natural, One Man-Made
This particular dinner table is....wait for it...Both! The people at this table journeyed from miles away to meet with the Honored Guest, a remarkable young man from Romania. This Gentleman (capitalized because he is the epitome of Gentleman) is known to all of us online, and the friends at this table, along with dozens of …
Continue reading Photo Challenge..Is it a Table…Or a Bridge?
Cherish your Liberty, today most importantly, but do so all year round. The country that you live in is the greatest miracle that has ever taken place in the history of Humanity. A group of intrepid, well-educated men and women journeyed across a forbidding, mostly unknown Ocean to a new land, where they could live …
Continue reading Independence Day! Celebrate the Miracle that is America!
Last week was the Leavenworth (WA) International Accordion Celebration. Leavenworth is known as "Washington's Bavarian Village", and most of its buildings are dressed up in Bavarian Village style. LIAC consists of four days of accordion competition, performances by local and international groups and individuals, an accordion parade through town, and all sorts of impromptu and …
Today is June 6. 6/6. It is the 73rd Anniversary of D-Day, that momentous day in 1944 when the Allies invaded France to re-take Europe from Hitler's evil forces. But that's not what I remember. In June of 1966, I was a junior in high school in Seattle. I was taking a ceramics class, with …
Continue reading It’s weird the things you remember from days gone by…Tricks of Memory
My friend likes to sit on my lap, whenever I'm sitting down. She leaps very quietly onto the chair or bed I happen to be using, and purrs loudly to get my attention. My lap is always warm when Kikyo the Aristo-Cat is on my lap. She also likes to snuggle up to her glass …
The company where I work is in the Aerospace industry. A couple of years ago, corporate gave each employee a little rubber airplane with the company logo on it. One of our test engineering employees came up with a delightful way to deploy those cute little airplanes, on the cabinet next to his desk, often …
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