That is a walk to the park, in the park, around the lake (partway), beyond the park, through the zoo, south park, and back home again. 6.5 miles roughly.
Cold and sunny.
My layers = under armour, long sleeved tee, fleece vest, jacket, scarf, hat, fuzzy gloves. (and pants)
Carl’s layers = long sleeved tee and fleece vest, hat, gloves. (and pants)
Saw several friends where we stopped and chatted, had a burger at Red Mill (just as the crowds were arriving) (they had the biggest pile of bacon waiting that I have ever seen), coffee ala Starbucks, sun bears, tigers, orangutans, siamangs, elephants, zebras, antelope, exotic geese, too many dogs to count, and about as many children, and a soccer game (one of the players plays on a team with Jay).
Some other things of note that we saw on the walk.
Invisibility Cloak: We start off wearing our cloaks of invisibility. It is the only explanation. Car’s making turns just kept not stopping, cutting the corner close to our path, or cutting in front of us. And we were in crosswalks, or crossing at the corner, and this is Seattle where cars actually usually stop at crosswalks.
Chocolate bridal dresses. At least we imagined them to be. A little storefront on our route was for many years a Boehm’sChocolate store. Local, really good chocolate. They had ice cream bars that they would hand dip in melted chocolate just before serving. Mmmmm. Anyway, the proprietor finally wanted to retire, and no one stepped in to take over the store, so Boehm’s on Ravenna closed. Now it is a Bridal boutique. We figure the dresses are made from white chocolate, and getting the bride out of the gown just gets more fun. Use your imagination.
Faux foxes On our journey back through the park we passed the baseball field. Seattle parks shuts down the better baseball fields during the winter to try and preserve the outfield. Soccer and football players would use the outfield and tear the grass to smithereens. (There are very few grass soccer fields in Seattle due to the wet winters. They just get torn up. There are dirt and cintrex fields, and finally now they have several artificial turf fields that play like fast grass, and hold up in the weather.) They would put rows of orange construction fencing across the grass to discourage open field play. As we were coming down from above, it looked like an animal, dog maybe?, squatting on the field. Then I thought maybe a goose, or geese, making a different silhouette. We both were trying to figure out what this non-moving thing was. Finally close enough we realized they were stuffed, or very realistic looking foxes, in ready to pounce poses. There were three spread around the outfield. And what there was not, were any geese. This is really unusual, so they must be working. (There were no rabbits in view either, and there is quite a rabbit population in the area.)
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