Corndogs + Avocados

Our dear friends the Cravens (aided by the fabulous Jones’s & McDonalds) hosted a wonderful evening of finger foods and goodbyes for us recently. The incredible folks in the photos below (and several not represented here) have made our brief run in Seattle spectacular, and really hard to leave. Dang it. [...]

Liz called earlier today to tell me someone broke into our car yesterday by throwing a rock through the rear passenger window. The perp stole our Kathmandu-brand tent that we bought in Australia, Liz’s Christmas 2004 iPod, her scriptures (Liz says maybe the perp will read them), and a few other odds and ends. [...]

Yesterday was my last day at Starquest Expeditions, but I will still be teaching weekday mornings until June 9th. To celebrate, I took myself to Carkeek Park (2-3 miles from our house) for some tide pooling. Yippee! It was a perfect Seattle day at the beach, rainy and no one in sight.
There [...]

We’re having a cyber garage sale this week. For items and details check it out:
http://darinlizgaragesale.blogspot.com/
Please forgive the mess in some of the photos. You know how packing goes…

I noticed the Town of Raymond is finally planning to take advantage of the raymond.ca domain reserved for it years ago by CIRA. There’s not much of a site now but I’m sure the town is working on it. Until the official launch you can visit the old Town of Raymond website for a blast [...]

This morning in the faculty lounge at my school I spotted an open ziploc baggy of rock candy. You know, those little candies that look like pebbles, but are made almost entirely of sugar? I looked for the biggest one and plopped it in my mouth, ran my tongue over it and gently [...]