What a gorgeous Spring Weekend!
Posted: April 1, 2013 Filed under: News | Tags: Chicago, Crocus, easter, Easter Week, history, holidays, Passover, seattle 2 Comments »Seattle certainly demonstrated some spectacular weather for Easter and Passover celebrations this weekend. I always equate crocuses with Easter because they were usually just blooming by then in Chicago, but ours bloomed back in February here.
The Hyacinths and Tulips are putting on a show right now along with the Cherry blossoms that you can see all over town. What a beautiful time of year! In fact, while much of the country is still dealing with snow, we could have started camping weeks ago. I hope you enjoy these small samples from the garden:
The Masters of The Scottish Arts Concert
Posted: February 2, 2013 Filed under: News | Tags: Benaroya, Benaroya Hall, Celtic, dance, drummers, Ireland, music, Pipers, Scotland, seattle, WA Leave a comment »
Last night, February 1st , we saw pipers, drummers and dancers from Scotland, Ireland, Canada and the US at Benaroya Hall in Seattle WA. The show is an annual thing and benefits the Celtic Arts Foundation and the related Winter School Programs. The foundation also sponsors other events including Burns Night, St Patrick’s Day, events at The Highland Games and a Scotch Tasting. Fred Morrison’s Kansas City Hornpipe including his funny story about the Newark Howard Johnson’s, John Scullion’s drum solo and Laura Risk’s Fiddle solo were real stand outs for me, but the entire show was excellent and all the performers and audience seemed to be having a great time. I have an extra copy of the very informative concert program that tells all about the performers and sponsors and also has a lot of historical information as well, just drop me a line if you’d like to borrow it. The show was great and I can’t urge you more strongly to get there next year!
Moviemaking in Seattle, a new exhibit at the new MOHAI
Posted: January 8, 2013 Filed under: Blogs & Blogging, Movies | Tags: Ann Bancroft, center for wooden boats, Film, Lake Union, Metro Areas, Museum of History & Industry, Naval Reserve Armory, seattle, Sidney Poitier, South Lake Union Seattle, Tugboat Annie, United States, Washington Leave a comment »
Seattle Museum of History and Industry (Photo credit: Canadian Pacific)
Things to See: Moviemaking in Seattle
Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry, MOHAI, reopened late December in its new location at South Lake Union. It is now conveniently nestled next to the Center for Wooden Boats, close to Dukes and all the other restaurants near the Lake Union docks. The exhibit I want to see first is “Celluloid Seattle: A City at the Movies” Did you know that “Tugboat Annie” was set in Seattle? Everyone knows about Elvis at the World’s Fair in 1962, but have you see the Slender Thread with Ann Bancroft and Sidney Poitier from 1965? It shows sites from the Science Center, docks and even the Swedish Club in Ballard.
Here is a list of Movies filmed in or set in Seattle, according to imdb. But I noticed that the listmaker left off Twice in a Lifetime, with Gene Hackman, Ann-Margret and Ellen Burstyn so I wonder what other films didn’t make it either. If you think of any made in or set in Seattle that aren’t here, let me know. OK? I’ll pass them along to imdb.
Related articles
- Seattle moviemaking, movie-watching, past and present (seattletimes.com)
- Guide to MOHAI Grand Opening December 29 (seattle.cbslocal.com)
- New MOHAI opens at South Lake Union location (king5.com)
- Seattle’s MOHAI opens at its new home on S. Lake Union (komonews.com)
- Join the party as revamped MOHAI reopens (seattletimes.com)
- Seattles MOHAI reopens in prime South Lake Union location (mynorthwest.com)
- Vintage vessels share MOHAI spotlight (seattletimes.com)
A Rainy Halloween
Posted: October 31, 2012 Filed under: Calendar, Health & Fitness | Tags: fitbit, Halloween, seattle, trick-or-treat, walking Leave a comment »
It’s Halloween 2012
Here is my Halloween treat for you. It is a recording called Halloween Pickles and it is about two brothers who dress up as the scariest things they can think of for trick-or-treat. What do they pick? One dresses as a nun and the other as a Choctaw warrior. Scott and I heard this on NPR years ago and it has become a Halloween tradition for us. Check it out here: Halloween Pickles.
I discovered another benefit of the Fitbit. Kevin & John were working upstairs all day so I spent the whole day sitting in my studio with Rob & Gracie and only logged 1400 steps. I decided to get a good long walk in so I messed around for about 15 minutes trying to get an audio file onto my phone and then trotted out into the rain. About halfway through the lecture I was listening to, I stopped to check my fitbit. My belt clip was empty, lanyard still attached to it.
I panicked momentarily and then remembered I had stuck it in its charging cradle while I was messing with the phone… AAAARGH. Discovering that I wasn’t logging any steps really sapped my motivation. Yes, I am externally rather than internally motivated, and it wasn’t until I remembered I could enter an activity by hand that I got my second wind! When I got home I clicked “log an activity” on the Fitbit menu and copied the stats from the last walk onto today’s log. Whew.
Click here to read my earlier post about it: Fitbit Review.
Stay tuned for some kitchen pix once the guys are gone.
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- Halloween Turtleneck (boofandmonkmonk.wordpress.com)
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- HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! {PHOTOBLAST} – Trick or Treat?! (theeyeoffaith.com)
Kitchen Update!
Posted: October 14, 2012 Filed under: News | Tags: cabinets, kitchen remodel, seattle 1 Comment »Kevin and his team finished for the day and headed home to watch football. The kitchen looks bigger again. It is so weird how big the room looked with the walls open, small with the drywall up, then bigger again painted. I thought for sure that it would look smaller again with the cabinets placed but it doesn’t. Because the modern cabinets are less deep than the old built-ins, it looks as if we have both more storage space and more floor space. Now on to the floor, trim and counter tops!
Here are today’s pix:
ShakeOut – Are you up for an earthquake drill?
Posted: October 6, 2012 Filed under: News | Tags: drill, earthquake, empower network, prepared, seattle, WA Leave a comment »How many earthquakes do we have in a year?
The USGS reports 22,289 earthquakes worldwide in 2011.
pic of Seattle 1965 earthquake http://www.historylink.org
Washington and Southern California each have 30+ earthquakes per day. Do you know what experts say you should do to be prepared for one? The ShakeOut website gives the latest duck and cover recommendations and lists earthquake drills by region. October 18th is the day for Washington, California, Nevada, and British Columbia. The Central US has their drill in February, Utah in April. I picked this picture instead of a modern one because our house survived this. There is some evidence of subsidence that I believe was from this earthquake. Think you know what to do in an earthquake? You have probably heard of these techniques…
What NOT to do:
DO NOT get in a doorway! An early earthquake photo is a collapsed adobe home with the door frame as the only standing part. From this came our belief that a doorway is the safest place to be during an earthquake. In modern houses and buildings, doorways are no safer, and they do not protect you from flying or falling objects. Get under a table instead!
DO NOT run outside! Trying to run in an earthquake is dangerous, as the ground is moving and you can easily fall or be injured by debris or glass. Running outside is especially dangerous, as glass, bricks, or other building components may be falling. You are much safer to stay inside and get under a table.
DO NOT believe the so-called “triangle of life”! In recent years, an e-mail has circulated which has recommends potentially life threatening actions , and the source has been discredited by leading experts. I remember learning about this in a disaster drill when I worked at the clinic, here is a link about it: The Triangle of Life. One problem with this one is that there is far more danger from shattering glass and flying objects than from collapsing exterior walls.
Read this special report to learn more about these “not-to-do” techniques.
ShakeOut – Select Your ShakeOut Region
How do you find cultural events in your community?
Posted: August 31, 2012 Filed under: News | Tags: pacific Science Center, SAM, seattle, Symphony, teaching company, tutankhamun Leave a comment »
How do you find cultural events in your community?
You could hear about them from friends, in ads on radio or TV, or you could sign up for the free Cultural Events newsletter from The Teaching Company and never miss anything important again. In addition, signing up for the newsletter allows you to filter event results for your area and interests. You could also check on the upcoming events in a place you plan to visit.
The Teaching Company makes and distributes The Great Courses, lecture series on any subject you can imagine taught by college professors. I love them and I have Western Civilization, Superstar student, Alexander the Great, Greco-Roman Mythology, History & Herodotus, WWII Special topics, The Iliad and Odyssey, History of Religion, and more.
Here is an example of a listing:
Traveling Exhibit: Tutankhamun: The Golden King and The Great PharaohsOngoing Exhibit, Times Vary — Pacific Science Center, 200 2nd Ave. N., Seattle
Step into one of history’s most treasured stories in Tutankhamun: The Golden King and The Great Pharaohs. The exhibition features more than 100 objects from King Tut’s tomb and ancient sites representing some of the most important rulers throughout 2,000 years of ancient Egyptian history. With more than twice the number of artifacts than the original Tut exhibit that toured in the 1970s, many of these objects have never toured in the United States before this exhibit. Come face-to-face with the largest image of King Tut ever unearthed–a 10-foot statue of the pharaoh found at the remains of the funerary temple of two of his high officials. See authentic objects from King Tut’s tomb including jewelry, furniture and ceremonial items, as well as the boy king’s golden sandals–created specifically for the afterlife and covering his feet when his mummified remains were discovered in 1922 by British explorer Howard Carter. Ticket price: $24.50–$32.50. See the website for additional information and to purchase tickets.
Related Courses:
History of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Empires before Alexander
Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations
Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
Mythology Monday – Olympians and Olympics
Posted: July 30, 2012 Filed under: News | Tags: Astrology, gods, Greek mythology, Milky Way, olympians, olympics, Olympus, seattle, symbols, Twelve Olympians, WA Leave a comment »
The Olympians:
Spending the first weekend of the Olympics in Olympia was a fun coincidence. According to Greek Mythology, the Olympian gods are Hermes, Artemis, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Ares, Athena, Poseidon, Hestia and Demeter. Hades was not usually included in lists although he is a brother of Zeus and Poseidon, etc. The Olympians are second generation gods who took over the earth, sky, ocean and underworld after defeating the Titans. The term “Olympian” refers to Mt Olympus. Each god has their own home, made by Hephaestus, the smith-god, but Mt Olympus is where they hold court. The Milky Way is called the road to Olympus. It bisects the ecliptic, or path of the Sun, which includes the constellations associated with the god’s homes, the Zodiac. Read the rest of this entry »
I won, I won! Thank you Pluggz.
Posted: July 2, 2012 Filed under: Health & Fitness | Tags: boat, center for wooden boats, chinook, grounding, Health & Fitness, Lake Union, pluggz, Recreation, Robert, seattle, shoes, Wooden Boat, yoga 2 Comments »
Pluggz sandals
I entered in a give-away on My Yoga Online and won 2 pairs of Pluggz. The give-away consisted of a drawing from all who responded to this question on the MYO forum, the question was: How do you ground yourself?
I responded: I keep grounded by slowing down, focusing on one task at a time and reducing media inputs. And… my name was drawn! So now I get to try a really cool product that I never would have heard of otherwise. I was going to get 1 pair for Scott and 1 for me, but their men’s sizes stop at 12, so that means I get both. He doesn’t really wear flip-flops anyway so he wasn’t exactly heartbroken in case you were concerned. So far I like them, I’ll give a full review in a week or so.
Scott has our Chinook, the boat, not the dog, up at the Center for Wooden Boat’s weekend boat show. She looks great with all the other wooden boats and it is a fun crowd. There are some classic Lake Union Dreamboats. The weather has been great (fingers crossed) and the little kids are all attracted to our boat. If you are in Seattle make sure to stop by and see her. We’ll be there periodically and a friend will be showing her the rest of the time.
Chinook, A Devlin Design
Chinook dog
