Adventures in fiber

I hope all  fathers and men had a wonderful day.     You are an extremely important part of our world and we love you

Our youngest daughter and her husband (dad to our grandcat) took us  to a Mexican dinner for the event

The Dad that lives here helped me water the garden and pick another 2 gallons of strawberries.    The string beans are now in.

Oh, and the most exciting thing that happened in the last 12 hours is that the fabric and notions end of the basement flooded giving us something to do until very late.    A fitting on the water softener failed.     Because this is not the first time, most things on the floor were in plastic totes.   And a couple cardboard boxes that became quite wet were lined with garbage bags.   Some fabric scraps are now being washed again and a huge load of towels is now out of the dryer.   All in all, I have a much cleaner floor in there, though it will take awhile before the water under the floor tiles evaporates.   I’m very thankful for heat in the floor.  

Today we went to visit my sister.  Here,  Christian, my grandson is bored

I gave him the camera and sent him out to take photos and these are three of the views of her yard surroundings with which he returned.    He loves taking photos as you can see.

We returned via the Seattle Bremerton ferry

On our way home, we passed the International Starbucks home (which used to be the big Seattle Sears)

It is very interesting to take someone new to show your hometown.   You start seeing sites that are very familiar to you with different eyes.    This is one of many sites I frequently pass without giving it a second thought.

We had a most enjoyable day.  The weather was perfect as we walked past the Space Needle and the Science Center on our way over to the “Ride the Ducks

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The “ducks” are copies of the amphibious machines that were used in World War II.     If it weren’t that we were taking the children, I would have totally missed this marvelous guided tour.   It consisted of an hour through Seattle with the driver helping us all make fools of ourselves and laughing.   He took us through areas in Seattle to which  I had never been, giving us the history as  we  went.   He also took us through parts that have been very run down and unsafe, which have been totally remodeled.   I  remembered these run down areas from my childhood and was amazed at the transformation.

I lost my camera so didn’t take photos of the land areas. but into the water we went and I remembered the cell phone..   So here we go with the  photos I did take on lake Union.

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I think he said there were 500 houseboats on this lake, nothing inexpensive, no matter how it looked.  And there were some very majestic boats moored there as well.   We had to stop and get an ice cream for  the hungry ones among us and I asked if anyone had turned in a camera.   It turned out that I left it lying there when I purchased the tickets.

 Then it was off to Pike Place Market and the flying fish.   It’s difficult to catch a flying fish, but as a fish is sold, the man on the left in front, throws it to the fellow between the signs (center left) who catches it in a paper.  So you don’t really get to see the fish land because he twists it in his hand so fast.   And as they fish is being thrown and wrapped for shipping, the fellows chant about the sale.    After that we purchased a few vegetables and some shell pasta for dinner.

Off to the Olde Curiosity Shop, also a relic from my childhood where my brother picked up a few postcards.    And with that, this tired crew went home.