Plane fuselages on the way west to become Boeing airplanes. Cameron took the photo from the house in the middle of the vineyard.
I read that the holiday that started as Washington’s Birthday has never officially been changed to President’s Day. George was born on February 22nd and Abe Lincoln on Feb. 12th. What the calendar says is President’s Day and that’s how the week started. Not exactly exciting. It got better.
I’ve had a dental appointment scheduled for late March but someone dropped out and I got a call. That is the 2nd time. First one I couldn’t do. So, Wednesday morning I had a tooth ground down and a temporary cap put on. In a town 100 miles south a dentist is advertising a one-visit crown. Here I have to go back in 10 days. So far the temporary cap has stayed on and my jaw is almost back to feeling well.
Thursday evening the local Audubon group had two folks from CWU Biology present on animals in the forests of western Mexico. I know both of the folks and also know some of what they do. Many Audubon meetings use Zoom presentation and after sitting through several failures, I no longer go to those. So Dan is an expert on lizards and snakes and Kris specializes in other critters. She has been the biologist leading the studies of the animals that the I-90 critter crossings are meant to serve. Mostly they used color slides and a few video clips and Dan brought a large Boa Constrictor and a large lizard.
Saturday afternoon I went to a CWU basketball game. The Lady Wildcats’ game started at 4:00. They won. I left at the end, just as the men’s team can out. The Geography Department had tickets. They can get a bunch of tickets just for asking. Less than half the seats were occupied, so I guess it helps to build a crowd with free admission.
Back about 1990 one of my students was on the team and invited us to come watch. They lost that night to a much bigger and better team, Simon Fraser University of British Columbia. At the end of the game we went down to say hello and all the ladies were taller than my then 6 feet. Two athletic events since 1989 isn’t a record.
When I started in towards town there was a mist. As I parked it was sprinkling and it has been doing so since then. I went to the grocery store afterwards, and drove home in the rain.
This was the beginning of a so-called atmospheric river that will likely peak on Monday. There will be some flooding in the Puget Sound region but not here. Overnight Tuesday the atmosphere will clear and Wednesday will be partly sunny. Then our daytime temperatures will go into the low 50s.
Keeping Track
on the Naneum Fan
John