UMTravels

Yikes what a long day. Up at 8am Finish packing. Finish straightening up the house. Take the lift off the Mommy Van. Bug Ross to get here early. Move the RV so Gnarlene can borrow it. Mow where the RV used to be. Worry about Ross arriving in time. Give Gnarlene a lesson in how […]

First a few comments about last nights feast. Yum, yum, yum. How’s that turkey look to you? Checked out at noon after a scramble for breakfast — and a packed lunch of turkey sandwiches to the road. And we still have too much food. I’ll probably need a nap when I get back to Seattle. […]

What a breakfast! Eggs Benedict from scratch. A group effort (well, not from me or Curt). And a choice of Bloody Mary or Mimosa for morning wake-up call (after the coffee). I didn’t get my nap in today — but I did track down a rotisserie for the BBQ and took a walk on the […]

It is so nice to have someone else cook breakfast for you. This mornings breakfast was scrambled eggs, bacon and bagels — with the signature Rich Bloody Mary. My schedule for the day is breakfast, nap, lunch, nap, work, dinner, movie. Of course, that plan was interupted by a wedding on the beach walk in […]

Up at a little after 8, and out of the house by 9:30 headed to the office for the weekly marketing meeting to find out we are opening another branch bringing us to six branches. Guess that means I’d better get them ready for getting another press release out to all the markets announcing out […]

Stayed up late last night chatted with Tokyo Dave… so the morning came early. With his flight at 1pm and a little shopping to be done before, it was out of the house by 10am. No Jaguar for the run to the airport today (did it last night between rain clouds) but the Mommy Van […]

Today’s news is that this evening, Tokyo Dave makes a brief appearance in town on his way back to Tokyo from San Francisco, then St. Louis. All his visit did was to remind me that it’s been too long since I’ve gone to visit my friends in Tokyo. The downside was that he didn’t get […]

I do believe that today is the last sunny day for the storms headed in after dinner with power outages and whatnot further north. Oh well, spring was nice. The Colonel (one of two) sent me a much better picture of a B-17…. Though the actual one that I had a chance (if I was […]

Stayed up way too late, got to bed at 2am — meaning a 10am start to the day with Ross snoozing in the guest bedroom/office. So much for getting to Helene’s by noon for the start of the much postponed “Tequila and Latke Party To Celebrate Chanukah” Yes, that would be the holiday normally celebrated […]

Today the choices were: Free Duwamish River Tour about the ecology of the river Ride in a B-17 for $450 The river tour won because of price, but as we were getting ready to leave (all 40 of us)… one of the engines wouldn’t turn over. We got a 45 minute overview and a priority […]

Well, what was to be a quiet dinner for two, Salamander and I, turned noisy when Wonderful called up to invite me to dinner, but got himself invited instead. Dinner was a standing rib roast, boneless, with salad and fresh bread. It being a sunny day/evening, it was dinner al fresco in the breeze… And […]