Hey, it seems like February is almost over, the weather has been getting nicer here but maybe this week we're in for some more cold and maybe snow? I am moved into my new house which is nice. I have a job interview on Wednesday for a position with a bike non-profit but it is only part time so I am still looking for other things. Tomorrow I will bike down to Pike Place and turn in a resume there.
Last week Bonnie came and visited me at the Yellow house and we took a long bus ride together to crazy land. We had fun all day.
On Saturday I went down to Portland with my friend Emily for the day to go to a very very large fabric store there. They had pretty much every fabric ever. I wish that we had gotten the wackiest print there so that Emily could make some scrubs for Rosie to wear to work at her new vet assistant job but I didn't think of it until right now!
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Hey! I moved to Seattle, I've been planning on writing this blog post for a while now but I keep having a hard time thinking of exactly what to write so maybe I will just keep it short. I am living with my friends Rosie, Emily, Eric, Tommy, Allison, Jen, Bean, and Zelda until I move into a new house on the 15th. The new house is in the U-District which feels kind of silly but it seems like a nice house.
I have been having fun and looking for a job but no luck there yet. Also I made this cake for Mariah's Birthday!
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We got the rest of the backyard dug up and we even fixed the fence today!
Before and after. In the hole behind the kale and cabbage we planted potatoes a few weeks ago, hopefully they will come up soon:
The garlic and lettuce is growing up but the spinach might need some extra encouragement:
We took a lot of the ivy out but it's hard to get all of it. Three weeks ago and today:
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I finally got my pictures from the last part of the trip developed! Here are a couple and the rest are on flickr.
Me at the Utah Capitol Building, and Erik inside the potato museum.
Me in front of the Potato Museum.
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Earlier this week Bonnie and I went to the library to work on her research project on our house. We found the water company records of when the water pipes were first connected to the house and were able to cross reference this with Fire Insurance Company maps to determine when our house was built! 1923, how about that, it is the second oldest house on the block. We are the house 150 feet South of Estero on the records on the left here.
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Bonnie and I have been working in the backyard the past few weeks trying to make a small garden. So far we are just working in the area around the perimeter of the yard which has gotten pretty overgrown the last few years. Bonnie started along the north side of the yard with a few small plots and later I started clearing ivy along the west side of the yard. Now we are clearing all of the dirt and ivy in between those two areas so almost half of the yard perimeter area is clear.
Here are some pictures taken today from the house of Bonnie working on her original plots:
Here are pictures of the space where I cleared a lot of ivy and another part of the yard showing what it used to look like:
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We are now in Palos Verdes visiting my mom's parents after 3 days in Beaumont with grandma Theresa. While we were in Beaumont Bonnie and I went on a hike with my dad and his brother Dale to the Morongo Wilderness Preserve. Here is a picture of Bon and me that Dale took while we were on the hike.
We are going back to San Francisco on the 29th and it is supposed to start raining again in the middle of the week so hopefully our flight doesn't get delayed again like it did coming down!
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Tomorrow we are flying to LAX to visit the grandparents. We will first drive to Beaumont to visit Grandma Theresa and spend Christmas with her, then we will drive to Palos Verdes on the 26th to spend my mom's parents' wedding anniversary with them. I think it will be their 79th anniversary, give or take a few.
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I went back to Seattle last weekend to visit with my friends at the Yellow House. It was a real good time. Among other things we: got me a library card, made footprint reindeer decorations, made a gingerbread house, got a pizza, ate burritos, put up christmas lights, and made a cake. I am in San Francisco for a week until we all fly down to LA for a week. Here is a picture of Rosie putting up lights that my friend Emily took:
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I came back from Santa Cruz! Only without my bike helmet. I went to Jonathan Richman at the Great American Music Hall with friends Andrey and Elizabeth. It was a good show, a bit sillier than last February in Brooklyn, more dancing less sing-a-longs. I think that one thing that was the same is that both times he didn't even get all the way off the stage before he came back for the encore.
Then I went to the MOMA with Bon yesterday, we saw the 75th Anniversary exhibit and then we walked around some other stuff. It was the once a month free day but it wasn't that crowded except for the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit which I also saw in New York during the summer. We briefly walked into the wine exhibit but decided we were in over our heads. Bon said, "Are you gonna blog about this?" I said, "No." Then I said, "Yes." Then Bon said, "Blog."
We were going to work in the garden today but it rained all day instead. Maybe we will tomorrow. I am going to plant squash everywhere.
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