Mukilteo Musings

ONLY IN SEATTLE

I cannot resist. Too many little factoids have piled up so it is time for my ONLY IN SEATTLE.

1. Wine Burglar: Over New Years weekend, the TV stations were running a crime-stoppers alert. Evidently, a "burglar" was walking into grocery stores and heading for the wine sections. Was he taking a big box of rose or a large bottle of white table wine?? Nooooo! He managed to steal 5-10 bottles only but the dollar value was thousands. The serious request made to listeners was to watch for a man at parties bragging about newly acquired expensive wine. Yea, right, like this would narrow down the list of suspects in Seattle at holiday time!!

2. Boater Commuters: In other cities in America, people pass up taking the bus preferring instead to drive their cars complaining that taking the bus is too slow. In Seattle, in a recent article, people have decided to commute by boat because taking the ferry can be too slow. Seriously, around here one can get pretty much anywhere by water. My husband could manage to get to the UW, his place of work, totally by water. He could launch right here in Mukilteo or Edmonds. The time killer for him would be getting through the Ballard locks which link salty Puget Sound to our bodies of fresh water like Lake Union and Lake Washington. But he could pull right up to his office in Health Sciences pictured below!


UW on Montlake Cut, Portage Bay, and Lake Washington (on other side of stadium)

3. Fittest City: Seattle has recently been named the fittest city in the nation. Yep! We are number one in terms of fitness. Every morning without fail, rain or shine, this group of five old men walk in my neighborhood. I wave at them everyday and they heartily wave back and I wonder everyday what they talk about--these darling old guys.

4. Speedskating on bad ice?: We have recently had a cold snap. For a few days, a puddle of water not larger than five feet in diameter, remained frozen on my street at the bottom of someone's steep driveway. One day, two 14 year old girls were standing on that ice with skates on--just standing there--in ice skates. Only in Seattle would teen age girls try to mimic Apolo Ohno on a puddle!

5. Snow.....things: Not only did we have a cold snap, we also had snow for a half a day. It was enough, however, to build snow sculptures some of which were obscene (geez--no picture of this "only in Seattle" creation). But we learned, that our Apolo puppy's favorite thing is attacking snowmen, knocking them down, and eating their carrot noses. I am still afraid to face my neighbor after Apolo smashed her little boy's creation.

6. Sasquatch: And finally, only in Seattle does my bearded, long haired son get invited to star as Sasquatch in a video being filmed by his friend's older brother as an application to a game show-- Jeopardy--to be exact. Who knows what the results will be but after two days of filming, I have a laundry room full of muddy clothes. Hmmm! I didn't realize Sasquatch wore clothes. Ok, I am glad I have a laundry room full of muddy clothes.