christmas shopping

Went to the Pike market on Saturday to finish up some shopping...

Was supposed to be snowing all day, but didn't start till after we left.

This place is really cool during the holidays.

That guy behind me is making me Pad Thai

Melissa got chowder.

Light up vegetables

Finch with chowder on his lips

weekend stuff

Got our tree up and decorated.

Hard to see, but I was first in line at the drawbridge. That's the road opening up in front of me.

Vegetable bounty.

Cool sunset at the locks this day

More locks. That little ball at the bottom is a man's bald head!

Pinus

The weather was so clear today, we went to the arboretum.

Fremont drawbridge.

Waiting for the drawbridge.

Saw a huge pinus on our walk.

Dec. 3rd

This is Seattle tonight. The photo is from a weather station web cam (I didn't take it).

Super cold, but Finch went deep in the water today.

The littoral zone!

Thanksgiving week

We dog/house sat across town for our friends Bill & Barb.  Here's a couple images from the last week:

The neighborhood bar has a bunch of cougars.

Mark came down from Vancouver for the holiday.

Bird.

Dogs.

Jack in Melissa's boots. He has a thing for shoes.

Canada, pies and a baby

Some stuff from the last week:

Jack with big shoes and no pants.

Everything is bare. This was a lush forrest a few weeks ago.

Finch getting clean for his first international trip.

You can buy Alpacas off the Interstate.

Chuckanut!

Me and dogface. The sun was in my eyes, but they're open I swear.

Melissa tried for ages to get a decent photo of Mt.Baker -  maybe next time.

This was from a week ago - we went to an event called 'Pies for Pugs'.  A pie sale to raise money for the rescue Finch came from.

We're dog/house sitting for the rest of the week. I'll update when I have a chance.  Happy holiday...

Portland weekend

We went to Portland last weekend to visit Jeff & Natalie.

Finch mellow...

Finch berserk.

We had lunch at a cool bar. Jeff ordered a coffee drink that gets lit on fire.

This is the hallway of the Kennedy school. It's an old school house turned into a bunch of bars, a theater and a hotel. The guest rooms are the old classrooms and the bars are made out of the boiler room, detention room, closets, etc.

This is what the place used to look like.

This is in the boiler room.

The next morning, Jeff made breakfast while we watched a little Supreme Master Ching Hai...

and infomercials on an amazing new girdle.

The shores of the mighty Colombia river. 

The dogs took off down the beach.  Jeff and I running after them (of course, Finch is the farthest away).

Maurice's first time in the water.

Me and dude.

Dogs.

There's a lot of stuff you can't do at this beach.

We're going back up to Vancouver this weekend,  and should have lots to post.