USS Long Beach—hiding in plain sight
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Tagged Bremerton, USS Long Beach
A nurse roof?
Where’s your smart phone?
Duck and truck
This year the Great Kitsap Duck Race is scheduled for Sunday, July 29 during the Whaling Days Festival. Sponsored by the Silverdale Rotary Club and about 30 other businesses and organizations, the race raises money for civic groups in the community. To participate you pay $5 for each rubber duck that represents you in the race. At race time the popular bathtub toys are dumped into a boomed-off area at the Silverdale Waterfront Park. The ducks that splash across the finish line first win great prizes. Top prize is a Nissan pickup.
Just in time for President’s Day
Silverdale is by far the biggest retail center in Kitsap County. And it’s growing. But a business needs to do more than just open its doors there to make money. With at least three other mattress stores in Silverdale—one of which advertises itself with a giant cow—Mattress Depot has plenty of competition. Plus it’s in a retail sector where success is based almost entirely on marketing. The dancing man is going to attract the attention of some passing motorists. Whether they will return later for a mattress upgrade is another question.
For the record I bought my last new mattress at Arnold’s Home Furnishings in Bremerton. A dancing man was not involved. You would probably see the pope in a tank top before you saw a dancing man at Arnold’s.
Taxi!
There’s another sculpture after the jump.
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I'll have one coffee to stay.
Wi-Fi in Allyn makes it harder to justify paying $130 extra for an iPad with 3G. (As an aside, the buzz created by Amazon’s Kindle Fire prompted a look at tablet computers in general; my conclusion is that I wouldn’t be comfortable with the Fire’s 7-inch screen despite its attractive price.) Now I’m back to thinking the Wi-Fi-only iPad might solve my connectivity issues when I’m away from home. Our vacation place at Treasure Island (3 miles from Allyn) is not connected to the Internet, and previously the closest Wi-Fi connection was 9 miles away in Belfair. Now Wi-Fi is just a short drive (or easy bike ride) away over back roads. And Sail On In has a comfortable indoor seating area for when the weather is bad. Perhaps I can do a blog post from there.
No fall chum salmon yet
Oyster Bay at high tide
The photo was taken this afternoon from the parking lot of the Family Pancake House on Kitsap Way. Bremerton’s Baymont Inn is in the background. Additional great views of Oyster Bay are available from Madrona Point, Shorewood Drive, the Baymont Inn, and several other restaurants along Kitsap Way. The Oyster Bay interchange, a major exit for Bremerton from State Route 3, lies just to the west of the bay.
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