This Sound Transit commercial is set to be released this week. For those not resident in Washington State, Sound Transit is the quasi-public agency which builds and runs the Western Washington bus and rail transit systems that run from Snohomish to Pierce Counties on the West side of the Cascade Mountains. Their head honcho, who …
Continue reading Washington State Government Explained in One Commercial
What's "The Usual" you ask? Let's start with high gasoline and diesel prices. Per our local legacy media, Washington State has the second-highest gas prices in America. For example, here are some of my local gas station prices from earlier this week. Some are higher today! This KOMO Story tells us that the statewide average …
Continue reading *What’s going on in Washington State? Yeah, just the usual.
Have Dementors taken over my state of Washington? It certainly is depressing, reading news stories of taxpayer money thrown away with both hands; big companies that have been here for decades announcing moves to other states; local restaurants, individual and chains, closing down for good; illegal aliens being treated better than taxpaying citizens; heavily-taxed roads …
I've traveled to cities large and small, old and new, in my 73 years. In all of my travels, my very favorite city is an old one, a college town in England that has been settled for around 2,000 years. I first went there in 1984 with my first husband. We liked it so much, …
Continue reading CFFC: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: City Structures
Ooh, this one is going to be really fun! One of the original photos I posted on my blog, way back when, is a twisty road in Eastern Washington along the Columbia River Gorge. I have always loved the shrub-steppe terrain there. How about our kitty, curving her body to rest on our barrel chair? …
Continue reading Curvy or Arches: Cee Neuner’s Challenge for this Week!
I am always inspired by the monumental, and not-so-monumental, works of human ingenuity. Whenever I see a bridge, or a mountain road, or a tall building, it reminds me of how people, down through the ages, have altered their environment by building things to make their lives easier, or to commemorate occasions or people. Structures …
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?
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