The first MLB game played under the lights took place on May 24, 1935, in Cincinnati. This week, 84 years later, a two-game series between the Mariners and Athletics takes night baseball to the extreme—at least for Seattle and Oakland fans on the West Coast who want to watch or listen live as their teams kick off the 2019 season. The games are in Tokyo.
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Night Baseball
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In case you didn’t bring a pet waste mitt
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Posted in Business Beat
Neighborhood Book Exchanges
Converted from an old newspaper vending box
Does your neighborhood have a book exchange box (see photo), often called a Little Free Library? If you walk or bike much on the streets near your home, you most likely know the answer to this question. Rocky Point, my neighborhood, has one. Marine Drive, a smaller neighborhood just to the west of us, has three. Perhaps Marine Drive has more readers and more community spirit.
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Posted in Books & Movies, Mud Bay & Rocky Point, Other Local Places
Tagged Marine Drive
A Housing Project to Watch
It looks like two lots are being combined.
Because I bike the length of Rocky Point Road almost every morning, I should spot any changes to its established homes and few remaining wooded lots right away. Not always so. On today’s ride I noticed a new housing start at the corner of Rocky Point Road and Water’s Edge Lane (see photo). Either delivery of the first load of building materials and site clearing have happened since Friday, or I’m not as observant as I thought.
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Posted in Mud Bay & Rocky Point
What’s Different This Time, Jay?
Like many career politicians, Washington Governor Jay Inslee has a history of using an elected position as a springboard for seeking higher office. In 2012, then-U.S. Representative Inslee resigned before his term was up to run full time for governor. In 2019, after announcing his candidacy for president last week, he has no plans to quit his day job. Are there differences between 2012 and 2019?
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No Room for an Airblade
Airblade at Skipper’s restaurant in Silverdale
What high-end appliance would you want in your kitchen assuming you had the space and the budget? How about a La Cornue range or a Sub-Zero refrigerator? My choice wouldn’t have anything to do with cooking or food storage. It would be a Dyson Airblade db hand dryer (see photo) so I can say goodbye to wasted paper towels and damp dish towels.
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A Simple Sign
One item per line
I don’t know if R&H Market plans to change its readerboard anytime soon. In case it does, the photo documents the content the sign has displayed since the Obama administration. Despite the simplicity of the message, I was reading it incorrectly. I learned that yesterday when I was in the store buying Mega Millions tickets.
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Opting Out of Catalogs
No more please, I’m trying to quit.
I get too many catalogs in the mail. Don’t need them, don’t read them, don’t look at them. They all go straight into the recycle bin (see photo). Is there a way to fight back against this waste? Since there’s no unsubscribe link for catalogs, I’m trying a different approach toward reducing my recycling footprint a few shoe sizes.
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Posted in Business Beat
The Closest Fire Station
Site of the former Westgate Fire Station
I felt a certain degree of safety when the old Westgate Fire Station operated out of the building at 1550 Rocky Point Road. The photo shows the cinder-block structure as it looked before the new tenant, Olympic Mountain Rescue, painted and reroofed it last summer. Although I have never made a 9-1-1 call in my life, living a mile from a fire station was reassuring, even one staffed by volunteers.
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Posted in Government, Mud Bay & Rocky Point
The Mystery Man
Including a photo would make him less of a mystery.
I haven’t seen the mystery man recently. So I’m going to rely on memory in an attempt to describe him. My last sighting was at least a couple of weeks ago—before a series of February snowstorms buried Bremerton and put bike rides on hold. I’m sure he’s fine though and will become part of my morning routine again soon.
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Posted in Biking, Business Beat
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