Is the garage next?
As mentioned in the last two posts, I visited Kalaloch on the Washington Coast this week. While I was out of town, a nearby house on Mud Bay was demolished and removed (see photo). Although I used to see it every day, I had to scramble to remember exactly what it looked like.
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Posted in Mud Bay & Rocky Point
Fishing Float at Second Beach, La Push, Washington
I have a modest collection of fishing floats and buoys although none of them came from Mud Bay. The trophy float shown in the photo isn’t part of the collection. There are more details after the jump about this float plus a photo of a world-class collection.
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One trip a month. Twelve trips in a year. Is that doable for a retired person, even if the traveler is a homebody like me? January is almost over and I’m tripless so far. But not to worry, I’m leaving on a road trip to Kalaloch on the Washington Coast tomorrow morning.
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DIY task: Please supply your own color photo of President Trump.
This morning, while watching his Rose Garden speech about the “deal” to end the government shutdown, I wondered, again, if it would be appropriate to recycle former Major League Baseball player Rusty Staub’s nickname when referring to President Trump. With his carrot-top hairdo and tanning-salon-hued skin, the president clearly fits the bill for the third word of the wondrous French phrase Le Grand Orange. He falls short, though, when you consider the true meaning of the second word.
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Posted in Current Events, Government, Sports
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
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