Sunday, February 26, 2006

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Yesterday, on the way home from work and picking up Natalie from ballet, we stopped in downtown Auburn. They have " gutted " an entire city block to make way for a new Convention Center and City Park. One of the buildings was a Ballet Academy and I have driven by the empty space a hundred times. I noticed something spraypainted on the wall inside, and yesterday ...I stopped. Great piece of small town history ... Great message to share with Nat as we strolled the block, peeking in doorways at empty spaces ...I hope to go back soon with a better camera than my phone... but this captures it just fine ...

" Dance Like No One's Watching ..."

Friday, February 24, 2006

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Monday, February 20, 2006

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Finally a weekend away. Well, not really even a whole weekend, but I'll take a good long Saturday and most of Sunday. Laconner was quaint and charming as ever. There are new " innkeepers " at The Wild Iris so we were a bit curious as to the changes they may have made, but it was as wonderful as we remember. In another month or so the tulips will be popping up everywhere ! There is nothing quite like spring in Skagit Valley. We usually go in February, but someday we'll take The Clipper over for a day trip if only to take pictures !

Life has been busy. Mostly I think it's because I'm working a little more and I seem to be commuting A LOT more. My day gets sucked into this drive/work/drive vacuum and I just know there's SO MUCH more I could be doing with my time and my life. I am still volunteering on Thursdays for a couple hours, and I have joined a soccer team that begins this March ! THAT oughta be interesting ! I played for years as a young person, but ever since that fateful last day of RUGBY ( a wrecked knee AND a small ROCK imbedded in the back of my head !! ), I haven't done any competitive sport. This should be more fun and exercise than anything else, but we'll see !

Just saw " 8 BELOW " this afternoon ! What a great movie! I think I cried about four or five different times ! Really good show. We also managed to watch one of our DVD's in Laconner ... " In Her Shoes ". LOVED that one too ! We're two for two on the movie front !

Besides being back at work tomorrow I'm looking forward to a good week !

Wednesday, February 01, 2006