The North Mason Timberland Library in Belfair reopened this week after a three-month interior refresh. After touring the building today, my main comment is that I’m glad it’s open again even if the weekly hours took a hit.
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North Mason Timberland Library Refresh
Westside Pizza Lottery
I don’t mind promoting Westside Pizza in Belfair. Like the other Westside franchises, they make great pizza, and I’m a frequent customer. This week Westside held a pizza lottery. The prize: a free one-topping medium pizza. Let’s look at the odds of winning.
Continue readingACL Separation
There’s no photo accompanying this post. No one was around to snap one when I fell off my bike yesterday in my own driveway at Treasure Island and landed hard on my right shoulder. The result: several ugly abrasions and a separated ACL. The latter means the ligaments that connect the top of the shoulder blade (acromion) and the clavicle (collarbone) are injured. Fortunately, no surgery is needed. But it still hurts like Hell.
Continue readingLittle Green Top
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.
Dancing Man in Belfair
The parts come with a great guarantee.
The dancing man phenomenon has spread to Belfair. Local Wrench auto repair, located at 23530 NE State Route 3, just added one of the quirky inflatables to advertise that they use genuine ACDelco parts. Local Wrench provides auto repairs and services for all makes of foreign and domestic cars and trucks. So, along with the General (GM), perhaps auto makers everywhere are dancing for joy.
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.
Haunted Scrapyard
Are all scrapyards haunted or just this one?
I have toured a few haunted houses without wetting my pants, but this is a new one for me—a haunted scrapyard (see photo). For the last few years, Belfair Auto and Truck Wrecking on SR 3 has been scaring the Holy bejesus out of anyone brave enough to visit their automobile graveyard on weekend evenings in October. According to the man I talked to, the gore is unsurpassed. Bringing kids is not recommended. Their web site is called Scrapyard Massacre.
This sounds a lot scarier than Christine, the Stephen King novel and movie about a haunted 1958 Plymouth.
A Creative Car Show Ballot
Lots of ways to win
I haven’t been to the Taste of Hood Canal Car Show for several years. Since the last time I attended the show, the organizers have expanded the ballot for voting on what used to be a simple people’s choice award (see illustration). It might be the most creative car show ballot around.
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Scotch Broom Bloom
Yellow hillside along Route 3 near Belfair
This time of year you really notice how prevalent Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) is along Western Washington’s county roads and rural highways (see photo). The invasive species is in full mustard-colored bloom everywhere and lines State Route 3 almost continuously from Bremerton to Belfair. The land bordering Route 3 has been logged extensively. Scotch broom thrives in the resulting sunny open areas.
For a plant with no friends, it’s probably not the best strategy to be so easy to spot. Not that the aggressive shrub is worried—once the roots are established it can be as tough to eradicate as kudzu. I’m just glad I’m not prone to pollen-borne allergies.
Why Write About the Belfair Bypass?
There’s an excellent letter in yesterday’s Kitsap Sun by first-term state representative Fred Finn (D-35th District) in which he urges that the Belfair Bypass be taken off the shelf (link at end of post). The idea of a bypass has been around since the 1980’s, and currently there is almost no local opposition. Nor is there much disagreement on when we need it: now. Yet budget woes have delayed the project until at least 2019. In the interim, it has little chance of competing successfully for funds against the state’s mega transportation projects. So I was curious why Rep. Finn wrote the letter. To find out why, I asked him.
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