Joy at the Washington monument

Washington dc

The new MLK monument

David's lunch in Seattle

David flew into Seattle today for a conference and has already set about enjoying himself.  We found a nice coffee shop downtown when we were there this summer that seemed to have nice food.  So he went there for lunch today.  Looks tasty.  You can tell he is in Seattle though – check out the wet rain jacket in the background.  J

 

 

Winds update

Apparently there was a microburst very near our house - someone close by lost their roof. So I guess we were lucky to only lose the cover we did.  Also, this is how excited the local news networks are about the summer weather here:

Storms in Tucson

I guess I can't call the thunderstorms wimpy in Tucson anymore.  This has been a pretty good monsoon season in general, but this afternoon we had a pretty crazy storm that came through.  I was working at my desk and happened to look out the window to a piece of wood flying by my window.  I walked outside and saw this:

This was our recently redone (by David and I) cover over the hot tub area of our pool.  I then noticed that a piece seemed to be missing, and located it across the street from our house:

That should be fun to clean up (in amongst the cacti).

Mt. Rainier

When David and I recently visited Mt. Rainier it was completely fogged in.  I was reduced to pointing in back of me and saying “That’s where the mountain is supposed to be – it’s usually very pretty.”  Given that I thought this video was very cool – too bad we couldn’t make a similar one:

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/donkjensen/5999259027

 

 

Bird sanctuary on the Oregon coast