Dash

The first weekend in December Kennet competed in a sea kayak dash up at Deception Pass. It had been snowing in Seattle the day before and it was extremely cold up there, with intermittent snow. I took many failed photos but I like this one of him coming back in, a little over an hour later with a very respectable time. I warmed up by hiking up and around to the other side a huge hill where the main part of the pass is to get a better look, but I didn't take the camera for that part. Man is it hard to tell a bunch of boat people apart at height.

Christmas business

Here is me with my comb-over and our cute Christmas tree. We got a Norfolk Pine at City People's a week or two ago with the idea that it's the best compromise we can come up with . While I love love love a real tree, we both agree that cutting it down is a little more than we want to bite off at this point.

We made our own stockings this year, using somewhat felted sweaters. Kennet cut out the template shapes and I made some embellishments and sewed up the edges. We'll post more photos as soon as they're completely done.

Among the other Christmas business taking place around here:

• a gingerbread castle, complete with gummy bear minions
• highly technical present wrapping of all kinds
• christmas birds that now adorn our door, our tree, our wall, and every christmas card or present I'll give this year
• many other secret things I can't describe yet
  

3 more days of work and then a lovely 6 day weekend.

Photo Dump 1

This should be the first of a short series of photo dumps. Not much in the way of text, just pictures. Most of the pictures speak for themselves, or at least have little to say.