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End of 2023 #2

Posted on January 5, 2024

More of the final few days of 2023 . . . . I noticed that just traveling further north only 5 hours shows in the amount of daylight that lights up the day. In the Seattle area the sun would set a good twenty minutes earlier than in Eugene. Fortunately, we have passed the marks in which the daylight hours are shrinking. On the 3rd of January we had our latest sunrise. On December 9th we had our earliest sunset. Now the sun is setting later and will begin rising earlier. This is all good for my vitamin D catcher and spirit.

14,410 feet high, Mt. Rainier stands above it all. It is always good to see it out.

Rolling Bay is a small shop and nursery on Bainbridge close to where my in-laws live. It’s a nice walk up there and they’ve all kinds of good items.

Including a batch of sweatshirts and hoodies with various animals and farm implements.

More to come!

Categories: family, holidays, life, seasons, travel

‘Tis the season

Posted on December 24, 2023

School is out. I am out. Vacation a bit and holiday a bit. I finished a wonderful book which is now a movie that shows in theaters tomorrow, December 24th. The Boys In The Boat is the true story of the 1936 University of Washington crew team that won the gold medal in the Olympic Games that were held in Berlin, Germany. I am looking forward to the movie, but the book was excellent. Also rock climbing and cinnamon roll making. ‘Tis the season.

Categories: family, holidays

Week End

Posted on December 10, 2023

The weekend: Fall Term ended Friday and this weekend we were all home which meant a lot of holiday activities commenced. It was fun, but more to the point I enjoyed that we were all together during the days this weekend. Photos of goings-on below:

The front of the house with a few new lights this year. The glowing balls are from my father’s place from many years ago and they still work, which is lovely.

The inside of the living room, ready to go for the tree. I like this image – there’s clutter, but also items that mean something. The desk, the stockings made by Sara, my father’s axe from his time in the forest service from the late 1940s and if you look closely in the upper left, the dolls of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

Tree gathering with teens. The tree in the foreground was ultimately chosen.

Complete.

Finally, today is the day that the sun begins to set later. December 9th is the date of the earliest sunset of the season here (due to our latitude on the planet). From now on, the sun will start to set a little bit later and later. Yay!

Categories: family, holidays, home, jonah, nora, oregon, parenting, seasons

Looking forward, looking back

Posted on December 1, 2023

Rain falls, again. The Good Rain. After a stretch of days with high pressure and cold temps, the weather turns once again. Also, a photo from an earlier era of my life when I worked at Dusty Strings Company, making hammered dulcimers and harps, working retail and doing other such things. This was one of the best places I have ever worked. I went from an insurance company to Dusty Strings where I could wear shorts and a t-shirt to work and it was only 5 blocks from where I lived. Good place, great people, surrounded daily by music and musicians.

Early morning today on campus. Sun is coming up, leaves are scattered, ground is wet.

Maybe I can be found in this wonderful group of folks. I had hair back then. It was a lovely 4 years of my working life when I was just a kid. Dusty Strings Company.

Categories: creative, education, eugene, fall, music, seasons