I’m blessed with great neighbors. Lots of people say that, but in my case it really is true. My neighbors all look out for each other, but one couple (J & G) goes beyond being helpful by providing a spot in their large carport where I park my 1999 Tacoma (see photo) out of the rain during the fall and winter. No matter how many times I’ve offered, they don’t charge me any rent and act like it’s not a big deal.
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The photo of my back deck could be from almost any day this week as the weather seems to be conspiring to keep me living at Treasure Island well into the fall. Because of the warm sunny afternoons, I have been putting off the move back to Mud Bay and Rocky Point for the winter. About the only change in the view since I took the photo last Saturday is that there are fewer red leaves on the maple. Perhaps rain and cooler temps will motivate to start on my relocation checklist soon. But right now they are only in the forecast with their exact dates uncertain.
I should have posted this last week before MLB’s wild-card round reduced the number of possible World Series matchups from 36 to 16. The math on that is simple, but let’s look at it anyway.
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The Seattle Mariners need to hire a new field manager and a lead radio announcer this offseason. Who has the harder job to do in filling these two positions? Is it President of Baseball Operations Jerry DiPoto, who will make the call on the replacement for fired manager Dan Wilson? Or is it the Marketing & Communications Department, which is tasked with replacing Rick Rizzs, who retired after serving for 41 years in the radio booth?
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The Mud Bay Blog has posted several entries about the Seattle Seahawks in the past. For the 2026–2027 season, there won’t be any, other than this one and perhaps a Super Bowl wrap-up should we get that far, as I’m keeping a journal instead of my thoughts about each game, written as soon as the game is over. To me the difference between a blog entry and a journal entry is that the former is public while the latter is private (and thus far quicker to write).
I should have done this last year when Seattle racked up a 14–3 regular season record and went on to defeat New England in Super Bowl 60. While repeat Super Bowl champs are rare, if we do win the big game again next February, I will be able to look back at the journal entries to help me remember the wins (and the losses) along the way. I will also post any observations then from the journal that are worth sharing. In quickly reviewing what I just wrote about today’s 33–31 road loss to the Washington Commanders, I don’t think anything from that journal entry will make the cut.
Life is good for this raft of California sea lions snoozing on a floating dock in the Grapeview Channel (see photo taken on a sunny Saturday in September). Their biggest threat — the Orca pod that sometimes frequents Case Inlet — is long gone, and there are apparently abundant schools of herring and juvenile salmon nearby to feed on. Unlike humans, who are now being told that AI is an existential danger to our very existence, the sea lions’ top concern might be whether the entire group of about a dozen individuals can fit on the floating dock without sinking it.
On Sunday I took my out-of-town guests (S & J from Austin, TX) to Poulsbo for some sightseeing and to browse the galleries on Front Street. It might have been an expensive trip for me even though I didn’t buy anything downtown. That’s because I didn’t try to figure out how to use ParkMobile (see photo), which is the only way to pay for parking in the Anderson Parkway lot.
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Beto’s Tires, which sells new and used tires and rims, picked a great location when they moved from Gorst to Belfair earlier this summer. But if being at the corner of SR 3 and SR 300 isn’t choice enough, they recently added an inflatable dancing man (see photo) to attract the attention of passing motorists and boost sales. That should work as long as the dancer doesn’t tire (bad pun).
The Mud Bay Blog can’t resist roadside attractions especially when they double as do-it-yourself advertising. This is the seventh post about dancing men. Coincidentally, the most recent post about the quirky inflatables (from 2014) was also set in Belfair and was related to automobiles. Local Wrench, the business that was being advertised, is still going strong, although the ACDelco dancer that was in its parking lot has long since moved on. Hopefully Beto’s will have the same type of success. Every car that drives by is riding on a set of tires, and some of them need to be replaced.
A large gray whale arrived in the Grapeview channel on Saturday. By Tuesday morning it had moved on. Call it a three-day gray.
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Do you have outdoor places you enjoy but visit only occasionally? If so, don’t assume they haven’t changed since the last time you were there. That’s what happened to a small, almost secluded parking area at the entrance to NAD Marine Park in Bremerton. As the photo shows, vehicle access is now blocked by a yellow gate.
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