Note: There are no recipes in this post.
Of course, any day can be Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. You don’t need to wait for National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day (August 4th this year) to honor America’s favorite cookie. Instead, celebrate any day you want just by enjoying one or more of these wonderful baked delights. To really get into things, make your own. Yesterday I did both.
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Posted in Home
What damage lies beneath?
What costs $500, looks like a quality item, and provides about as much protection as President Trump’s border wall? The answer, shown in the photo, is the rear bumper on my 1999 Toyota Tacoma. In a previous blog post, I wrote that the bumper came out second best when the truck was rear ended on Wheaton Way a few years ago, but at least it protected the underlying sheet metal. This time it didn’t even do that.
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Posted in Cars, Mud Bay & Rocky Point
While surfing the Internet for something, anything, to convince me there will be a Tom Brady-free Super Bowl this year, a statistic I read makes me think otherwise. At first glance the stat seems to point to a Kansas City victory over New England in Sunday’s AFC championship game. That doesn’t make it any less amazing. Credit for the stat goes to an article by sportswriter Barry Wilner, who, for the record, picked the Patriots to win in an upset.
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Posted in Sports
Tide at high tide.
A lot happened in the four+ years while the tide was out for the Mud Bay blog. The biggest change? A new Mud Cat (short for Mud Bay Cat) now lives with me. She’s a two-year-old Bengal and her name is Tide. To mention the word for the third time in this opening paragraph, the photo was taken at high tide while she was patrolling the bulkhead in front of our house.
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I wish my lawn looked this good.
The photo was taken a few days ago at Allen Shearer Trucking & Landscape Supply in Belfair. I’m not sure exactly what it shows but thought it was worth posting anyway. My guess: a mountain of topsoil with a thriving cover of grass. Mowing and fertilizing the mountain would be difficult. Watering isn’t needed as Western Washington is in the middle of the rainy season. The Little Green Top is proof that vegetation can grow like a jungle here—even in the winter.
Return to sender.
Last week, in a senior moment, I mailed in my final 2018 quarterly tax payment with one big omission. Yep, I forgot to stick on a Forever stamp (currently $.50 in postage), thus denying the letter a smooth flight to the IRS office in San Francisco. And now forever is due (see photo).
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Posted in Current Events, Government
The fortune cookie came from the Safeway deli, a place where you can order takeout Chinese cuisine. Inside the folded golden cookie shell was a modern fortune, printed on a slip of white paper:
It’s time to write a letter or email to one who is distant.
The fortune, my fortune, was on the money in two respects. First, when I write letters, I almost always use email, with a ratio of electronic to paper messages of at least 20 to 1 and probably higher than that. Second, earlier that day, I shared a photo and some news with a cousin I communicate with only every year or so. You guessed it: I used email for the job.
Apparently the humans who write these fortunes recognize that times have changed. However, I still look forward to the end-of-meal pleasure of reading, on paper, what they have in mind for me. Even if I get a smart phone someday and pay for my order that way, I hope the fortune doesn’t arrive after dinner by text message.
Posted in Friends & Family
These pheasants are safe for a few more days.
The parts come with a great guarantee.
I’m not an expert on dancing men, despite numerous previous posts about them, but this one looked new when I stopped for a photo this afternoon. It could be his first week on the job.
Wanna buy a former bank?
Posted in Business Beat
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