Nov
18
If it’s unplanned, some people might call it an “actual” emergency but no one died so I’d like to refer to it as a drill. Monday night we were staying up a little late to watch our new favorite show Castle and I told Dan I could smell something coming in the house from the [...]
Jun
24
This weekend we wrangled all six bebes into our minivans and headed downtown for the obligatory Guests-In-Town-Must-See-Water visit to Pike Place Market and the pier in Seattle. Shortly into the drive I noticed my cell phone was missing. Should we go back? Not by the peanut butter smears on their chinny chin chins! There was [...]
Nov
07
By now you probably know that much of Washington has been swallowed up in the great waters of the Puget Sound apocalypse. Our town is effectively cut off from civilization as the rivers in the area have swollen to gigantical proportions. Here are a few photos: This was taken a couple of months ago. Notice [...]
Oct
24
(This happened a month ago. I am just now calm enough to blog the carnage.) So I was sitting in a soggy tent in my back yard for three hours with 2 children under 4, no socks and a mother lode of nut-based products during the worst rainstorm of the year. So what? At least [...]