Monday, 01OCT, we both see our general health care provider
about our new blood pressure medicine.
We are not on new medicine because of increased blood pressure, but
because of the recent multiple recalls on contaminated prescription statins. So to ensure no issues with our new meds, our
general practitioner is checking us out.
Doctor didn’t “like” the sound of Dan’s heartbeat, so an ultrasound of
his heart was ordered.
Tuesday evening Dan headed to local hospital for the
ultrasound. He thought the procedure
would be similar to what we remembered when Corrie was pregnant, ie simple
& take very little time – NOT!
Procedure took over 45 minutes with Dan laying on his back, left side,
& right side while technician took numerous ultrasonic images (saved to
computer) with different probes. More to
follow.
On Thursday, 11OCT, Dan headed to Bellingham, WA, for lunch w/some
of his Coast Guard Academy classmates.
Two years ago these mini reunions started, usually in Seattle (see below
BLOG link for last one on 27MAR this year).
Bellingham was not really convenient for anyone, other than Sandy
Petersen who sponsored the event – so why Bellingham?
Turns out Sandy has a new business called “Growlers Keep”
filling growlers w/beerJ!!! Being old
CG Cadets & the possibility of free beer, it sounded pretty good to everyone. First we all met up at local wing
establishment for lunch & never ending sea stories. Then off to Growlers Keep. Apparently we have matured; no one expected
free beer & only small samples were tasted, before paying for selected
brews (including root beer & kambuchas) to be drunken responsibly at home.
Being a CG engineer Sandy’s system is unique & provides a
much better product than other systems (even those at highly rated
micro-breweries). The difference is that
his entire system uses CO2 in the piping system; air never touches the
beer. That means your unopened growler
will stay fresh for many weeks, even if not refrigerated. Some customers claim that it even stays fresher
after being opened? Dan asked why the difference
if beer in a bottle/can stayed flavorful even if stored not in a refrigerator? Turns out bottled/canned beer is pasteurized;
beer in a keg is not. So once exposed to
air, keg beer quickly goes flat.
Sunday, 14OCT, good weather, that evening we head to Borealis
Festival (more about that later) at Lake Union, Seattle. We were early for the festival, so we
commenced a walkabout enjoying the good weather. The Lake Union area of Seattle used to be
primarily an industrial area & a definitely “low rent” area of Seattle; but
not any longer! The latest change is the
construction of several 40 story office buildings for Amazon. Since we still had time before the festival,
we stopped for a light dinner at Daniel’s Broiler. A very high end steak house, but nothing
special in our opinion.
After dinner we still had time to kill before the main event of
Borealis started. As per their website
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“BOREALIS, a festival of light is a first-in-the US global competition and exhibition of
technology and light art that takes place each evening in the South Lake Union
neighborhood October 11-14, 2018. The festival is free to the public and
features a unique combination of live music, street art performance, lighting
art installations, and multi-media video mapping designed to transform
surrounding built environments of landmark buildings and facades into a virtual
reality extravaganza – an urban canvas for unconventional storytelling by
artists from around the globe.”“From Lake Union Park, where the selected video-mapping artists will showcase their work on the architecturally unique Museum of History and Industry building, the festival extends south across Mercer with approximately 25 light art installations.”
“During the event, attendees will stroll and enjoy the entertaining and interactive light art displays, sample food from participating food trucks, quench their thirst at the festival beer and wine garden, and enjoy live music from local bands. The festival is walkable, and will take place regardless of weather. The festival is free and open to the public...”
So while still waiting for the main event we wandered around
some of the exhibits spread thru-out the business area, before catching the end
of scheduled light show before heading home.
The smaller “art installations” were pretty hit-or-miss. Some were interesting/intriguing, some were
pretty simple and/or had you scratching your head? Below picture is where we sat back to back in
a booth that used mirrors to combine half of each couples face into one
composite. Not sure we will be using it
as our new facebook profile pic? Finally
it was time for the main light display on the side of Seattle’s Museum of
History and Industry (MOHAI). It was a
very beautiful display, but after half an hour, we had seen enough & headed
home.
Thursday, 18OCT, Dan catches ferry in the toad & drives to
Bremerton to pick up grandson Mason for the weekend. Our daughter is still working nights
Thursday/Friday/Saturday & usually husband Raymond takes charge of
kids. But due to Raymond’s work he is
also working nights & Jaxson is sick.
So the decision was to have us pick up Mason & hopefully Jaxson will
be better tomorrow & can join us at our house.
Friday Jaxson does feel better, & we pick him at the Edmonds
ferry & have fire in family fire pit after dinner. Saturday was cool & cloudy but no rain; so
we took the grandkids to Remlinger Farms in Carnation, WA, for their Fall Harvest
Pumpkin Festival. As their website says
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“By responding to visitor requests for more choices of fruits
and vegetables in the fruit stand, the farm began to grow. Pumpkins, the first
crop that Gary and Bonnie grew as a newly married couple, have continued to
play a major role in farm activities. Now each October, schools from the
Northwest Washington area visit the farm for educational weekday tours. Every
October weekend the farm holds the northwest's largest Harvest Festival,
bringing families from far and wide to join in the family festivities.”
“What began over 30 years ago as a humble produce stand has
grown into a 200 acre tourist center offering a full service restaurant,
bakery, ice cream parlor, large picnic areas, U-Pick fields, Birthday Party
Packages, fun and educational tours and Country Fair Fun Park. The farm
annually hosts more than 200,000 visitors from all over the world. Remlinger
Farms is also famous for its pies and other products which are sold
commercially in over 200 Northwest grocery stores.”
At first we questioned the entry price? But all the rides were unlimited & after
four hours we were beat (unfortunately the grandkids didn’t want to leave). Their two favorite activities were – 1) the
hay bale maze, that also included a giant hay pit to jump into; 2) rock
climbing on a portable climbing structure.
It took some coaxing to get them to try rock climbing, but now they are
hooked! Remlinger’s Pumpkin Festival is
highly recommended!!! Sunday back to the
ferry to return the grandkids to their parents.
Thursday early AM, 25OCT, head to Rebecca & Raymond’s in
east Bremerton; after arriving it was off to the Boat Shed restaurant w/grandkids
for Corrie’s b-day dinner. Then back to
their house for a small “witch's cauldron" b-day cake.
Friday not much done other done babysitting during day after Rebecca
goes to work. Saturday AM we head back
to house via Kingston ferry & discover that it is last day for the season
of the Kingston Farmers Market at the Mike Wallace Waterfront Park, next to the
ferry terminal – not many vendors present.
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