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>Postcard Friendship Friday #9

>The last of the northwest postcards. Correction, the last of the postcards that I purchased while visiting. There are some I have (somewhere) that my mom sent me. I will dig those out later, I hope I don’t run out of postcards, this is fun. Maybe I will start taking pictures of the post offices in New York City. That’s a thought.
 

OFFICER’S ROW
 FORT WORDEN STATE PARK
 PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON
 Ft. Worden was the shooting location for the movie “An Officer and a Gentleman”. Other Port Townsend locales were also used.
© Photo by John Kaiser


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>Trying to catch up

>So two short posts today. I hate posting when I have nothing to say, especially when I read other blogs with their elegant prose. I don’t have the ability to strings words together to make beautiful phrases and provoke deep thought. However, I have discovered that the more I post, the more I have to say, I remember what happens and find creative ways to say it. However, tonight my brain is not coming out with any profound thoughts.

If you came here hoping to be entertained or enlightened and are disappointed, I am sorry. Just in a slump, I am sure it will lift soon.

>This week I was going to get up and catch the 5:57 a.m. train. The FAIL in my blog post title should tell you how I did. Fotunately my idiot co-worker is not here to annoy me so my day is not totally sucking.

My co-worker who is a Mets fan just told me Yankee fans are over-confidant. She obviously doesn’t read the comments on the newspaper articles. So I guess she was talking about me since I am not upset about about the Yankees losing last night. I always thought if you were a fan, you are supposed to believe your time is going eventually triumph. I guess that’s what happens when you root for the Mets, you settle for loss and lose hope of winning.

>My brother was here for a visit on Saturday. He lives in Washington State along with his family, his children and their families, my sister and her family and my parents. No they don’t all live in the same house, sheesh! They all live in the same general area. His company has him doing training all over the world and last week he was in Staten Island and next week he’ll be in Maine. So instead of going home and flying back, he came to visit me. He got quite a treat, Em was in the city so they were having fish for dinner. My sister-in-law doesn’t like fish so he almost never has it.

It was a beautiful day and he just wanted to drive around, so that’s what we did. Gwen and Tigger were with us for part of the day, then when we made a stop at home Gwen decided she wanted to stay there. We went to Stony Kill to walk around on the trails. I hope I didn’t pick up any ticks. I took a shower when I got home and threw my clothes in the dryer. My brother has a nice camera and wanted to take a bunch of pictures. I forgot mine and so have nothing to show you. Oh wait, I took some with my new phone. These geese were at the park in Poughkeepsie, they wanted us to feed them, we didn’t and so they left kind of mad, since they had posed for us. Ha HA, stupid geese.

We saw this tree at Stony Kill, don’t know what type of tree it is but I thought it was pretty.

>Postcard Friendship Friday #8

>Continuing our tour of the great Pacific Northwest, Washington State has a large ferry fleet. Mainly to go from the mainland to the San Juan Islands, which are only accessible by water or air. If you are being flown out of the island it is usually a medical emergency (don’t ask me how I know that).

On the back of the postcard.

FORT CASEY STATE PARK
Coupeville, Washington
Fort Casey was established in the late 1890’s to protect Admiralty Inlet and Puget Sound. It is now a state park. Also located nearby are Keystone ferry landing and in the background, the Camp Casey Conference Center, operated by Seattle Pacific University.
Photo by John Kaiser

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>Postcard Friendship Friday #7

>Continuing my tour of the great Pacific Northwest, I’m sure you recognize this little family.

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>My New Phone

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I mentioned I got a Palm Pre Plus Mobile Phone, except it is a smart phone. So far I just love it. It fits in my hand nicely, has wi-fi and 3G so I can go online. It has an ap for Facebook and Twitter, I can sync it with my Google calendar so if for some reason I have to replace it any appointments I have put in it will also be online so I won’t lose them. I also can get all my e-mails to it. The only thing I don’t like is that since I have my e-mail and facebook and twitter, I now feel like I should lock the phone, and that can be a pain sometimes. I also have to carry my charging cord with me since the battery doesn’t last all day. However, I did find out that my portable, solar powered charger that I bought for my iPod, will charge it.

It came with this nifty little pouch, which Tigger insists I use and I am, unfortunately I didn’t have it in the pouch when I dropped it on the sidewalk. More unfortunately, Tigger was with me when it happened. I told him it was just a little scratched. He replied it was extremely scratched. Later I told Em, maybe he won’t want to play with it now. No Such Luck.

>I love purple. When I saw this card I just had to buy it, look at all the beautiful purple flowers!

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK
These beautiful lupine wildflowers abound in the meadows
throughout the rugged Olympic Mountains, seen in the background. 
Photo © Pat O’Hara


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>Tigger and Em

>Were in the city today. They had an appointment at John Jay College. Tigger really liked it and would like to go there. He really loves the city as you can see from his Facebook update:

Then afterwards they walked around. Went to Shake Shack and got shakes, went to see the Dragon movie in 3D. I met up with them after work for dinner. Em and I split a hamburger at Annie Moore’s. Tigger had chicken fingers, since we were at Annie Moore’s we had to get Fred chicken too. They cook the chicken just right there.

>More tweeking

>You know how it is, when you just get that bug to redecorate. Since I live in a basement, my decorating opportunities are limited, so I rearrange things here.

My book blog has three columns, and I just never thought this one would. One reason was the background is not conducive to text, very pretty but sometimes you can’t read the words. Then I learned how to put a solid background behind the text. Cool. From that, the decision to put 3 columns was easy. I was tired of how far to scroll and things just kept piling up on the side, so now it is a little more even.

What do you think? Don’t be shy, comment away!