This last weekend we loaded up the ‘bru and headed east to spend a couple of days in the beautiful country that lies between Mount Rainier and Yakima. The purpose of the trip was to check out some conservation work my parents have been working on as well as the Mighty Tieton project.
Leaving Seattle at 5:15 had us entering Mount Rainier National Park on highway 410 when the sun was low in the western sky, giving the mountain a glorious glow and casting beautiful shadows. In this light the climb to Cayuse and then Chinook pass was gorgeous, some of the most beautiful country you can see from a car.
Yesterday we had a bit of a barn raising with some of the other residents here at Sietch22. The goal was to attempt to limit the amount of sound that passes between our unit and the one next to us (home of Studio Ogalthorpe).
The task at hand was to cut, glue and place some sound dampening tiles on our south wall. The end result is pretty cool looking wall. The acoustics in our unit have definitely changed, not nearly as live and boomy as it was before. We also noticed that the freeway noise is notably decreased (wierd?). We can also still hear the stereo coming through the wall, but hopefully it’s quite a bit quieter.
On the 13th September Amanda’s sister Margret had a beautiful baby girl named Sula. I finally got to go meet this niece of mine a couple weeks ago in a 48 hour trip to the Bay Area. We did lots of fun stuff: went for a hike, had great Mission burritos, cooked (a couple of times), went to surprisingly delicious vegan raw food and spent some time shopping in the Haight. But mostly it was just fun to get some hang time with some of our Californian relatives and to meet my beautiful new niece.
We always have a great time when we visit Margret and Jeremy and this trip was no exception. We’re blessed to have great siblings in lots of great places.
There’s not a whole lot to say about this beyond … wow. Someone decided to put together a 2010 calendar starting the first week in December. That resulted in a massive photo shoot at our house, mayhem, chaos, boys in their underwear!
Checkout my old buddy Art and some of our other Music School friends as they take on the unusual (these days) feat of being a touring jazz group: http://artbrownmusic.com/
Other than that, nothing much to report. Working to much, playing too little, loving the rain!
We had fun last night making some goulish Halloween themed images. Here’s one for you!
Not having internet at home continues to do wonders for my creative output. I was able to practice bass and piano each for about an hour last night, and go spend an hour taking pictures. I still had time to read for a while before going to bed. Alas, i made no progress in Battlestar Gallactica, but that’s a cost i’m willing to deal with.
Two of the occupants of our new space, bathed in the light from our big windows.
Loving the new living situation, although we’re still working out some kinks. Not the least of those is that we’ve decided to put off getting internet access at home in order to limit distractions. This makes it a little harder to upload pictures, blog, etc. But so far i love the trade off. I’ve been reading, photographing, bass playing, keyboard playing and cooking way more than i would when we had big easy internet.
This is one of my favorite pictures from our trip to iceland. This glass that Amanda found was so beautiful, the sky is beautiful, the rocks are beautiful. And i love how you can see the iconic icelandic glacially carved cliff in the background fuzz.
I went and picked up keys to our rad new space in the Old Rainier Brewery tonight after work. I’m so excited about the space i can hardly contain myself. Of course my excitement is tempered by the knowledge that i now have to actually move all our stuff there.
It will be interesting to see how the space evolves over time. It’s very important to me that we maintain an open area in which we can do photo shoots, build giant duck sculptures or just have dance parties.
My first thought was that we need to do something about the kitchen. More counter space, more storage.
