Chad, Matt & Rob - YouTube Brilliance

I found these folks off of Jeff Cannata’s twitter post and thought it was excellent! Only watched a couple of the videos because I’m getting ready for the big Thanksgiving trip to Redding but wanted to pass it along. If nothing else, it might be something great to watch on the iPhone later on. Hoping it is iPhone compatible. Anyway, here is the YouTube link ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rJ1WML60Y

Friday Afternoon In Leavenworth Washington

I had my longtime friend from Illinois fly in to Seattle for a few days of site seeing and yesterday we made the trip over to Leavenworth. Thought it would be a good idea to go on a Friday, before the crowds start descending upon the town for their typical holiday activities. Had a nice drive up there on highway 2 and just a little bit of snow on the road at the upper portion of Stevens Pass.



We did the typical shopping but didn’t buy anything substantial. In fact, just some baked goods, one bottle of desert wine and lunch.

Only did one wine tasting but all the shops were available. Really liked all the sweeter wines here but their Merlot didn't do that much for me.

I started to do more camera shopping, meaning that I took pictures of things I thought I might purchase or might have purchased in better economic times. Like these frog sculptures for the bar or this very tacky sign for the office.



These were about $80 and just couldn't validate purchasing them with current economy slowdown.

Then please call me a redneck because I think every office is a bit more special with a pooch in them!

Sunday Afternoon At Saint Edwards State Park

Did my normal FileMaker morning blogging, ran to Target to try and get a Wii Fit (denied), did a little work for a client and then it was time to head out of the house. I wanted to do something different and we hadn’t been out to Saint Edwards State Park for awhile.



I’m really disappointed in some of the pictures I took and the fact they didn’t turn out very well. I guess it may be time for me to really learn what the specifications for a digital camera mean and stop getting what looks good when it comes up on Woot.com.



Anyway, it was a nice day out at Saint Eds and we both enjoyed the trails quite a bit. Lots of trail bikes, couples holding hands and dog walkers. Well worth the trip out and might consider doing it again next weekend (or earlier).

Yesterday On Centennial Trail

Wow, the sun came out yesterday and it was a fine day for a walk. Unfortunately, I had some programming to do for a customer and couldn’t do any significant trails. Plus I’ve learned that just because the sun is out here, doesn’t mean that it is out any trail with any real altitude.

I literally just opened the car door to do a quick clean and bogie hopped in. I shook my head and knew that he was right. So I gave up on the cleaning, grabbed my camera and we drove down to Centennial Trail.

Oh, I gotta get me one of these ...

Check out this office .... http://tinyurl.com/6k7jxv

Guys Diners, Drive Ins And Dives Trek

Lately, I’ve been enamored with the Food Networks and Guys Diners, Drive Ins And Dives show. So I decided that I wanted to make an effort to see these places when ever I can. I went to the food networks web site and found a small listing of the places visited on the first DVD set they are selling. I found what looks like five of them that might be in my area, so I decided I wanted to iPhone them. That is to say that I want to put links to these diners sites on my blog (so I can search them) and add them to my address book (so I can use the iPhone mapping feature to find them). Talk about something that would make a great iPhone app! Wow, a lot of them are within striking distance of my hometown of Danville Illinois. Will need to check them out on the next home visit.

My original list was found at ...

http://tinyurl.com/6lpb2z

and here is the listing of the local ones to me that I want to check out.

Voula's Offshore Cafe
658 NE. Northlake Way
Seattle, WA 98105
Tel: (206) 634-0183
Website: www.voulasoffshore.com
Monday - Friday: 6 am - 3 pm
Saturday - Sunday 8 am - 2 pm

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Mike's Chili Parlor
1447 N.W. Ballard Way
Seattle, WA 98107
Tel: (206) 782-2808
Website: http://mikeschiliparlor.com/

Monday - Thursday
11am - 11pm
Friday 11am - midnight
Saturday noon - 8 p

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Bobby's Hawaiian Style Restaurant
1011 Hewitt Ave. W.
Everett, WA 98201
Tel: (425) 259-1338
Website: www.bobbyshawaiianstylerestaurant.com

Tuesday - Thursday 11:00am - 8:00pm
Friday & Saturday 11:00am - 9:00pm

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Byways Cafe
1212 NW Glisan St.
Portland, OR 97209
Tel: (503) 221-0011
Website: http://www.bywayscafe.com/

7:00am-3pm
Saturdays 7:30am-2pm
Sundays 7:30am-2pm

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Also found a google maps link ...
http://tinyurl.com/4zbkul

Heather Lake - November 2008

Well, the round bright shiny thing made an appearance today and I needed a mental health day anyway. So I took bogie to Heather Lake and brought back these pictures.

My camera seems to do something very strange with falling snow but you get the idea. See the water flowing behind bogie? Lots of that on the trail today!

One thing I noticed was the amount of running water on the trail. Must have been over a dozen small waterfalls and active runoff areas. The sun didn’t come out on the trail until we were leaving ... but I got back to the office by 2:30 PM and able to finish up my work day.

There was just a little bit of snow at the lake, just enough to make the wooden bridges a little slick. Bogie loved it and was running back and forth on the bridges, sliding on occasion.

Hey look! It is a bridgecicle!

Say this split tree and thought it would be a great photo opportunity. Glad this one turned out but I really need to get a better camera.

Finishing this up with a few more bridge shots!