Photos from the past few days...

Peter, basketball with Ram

Scenes from our bike ride on the lower part of the Green River trail

We took our first ever trip to Fox Island (Sandspit Nature Preserve)

Sea anemones off a pier

These little fish literally were wiggling out of the sand, as the water went down. No idea what they were.

I brought my folding kayak, everyone tried it out

Views from a solo kayak trip in Lake Washington, starting at the boat launch north of Newport Shores.

Under the I-90 bridge

Jean and I sat out in the sun at Kelsey Creek Park

The temporary field hospital just next to the Humane Society. It has seen zero patients

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Planting raspberry bushes

I went very early to the Home Depot in Bellevue, and bought these raspberry bushes - the "shortcake" variety. 

For dinner tonight was Dutch Baby. Very similar to a popover, we had it with scrambled eggs and some fruit.

With Wendy at the Bellevue Botanical Garden. Lots of people there, most wearing masks. I brought some folding chairs and we sat and talked for a while on the lawn. Nice. 

Paint clean-up and Bellevue downtown park walk

My goal today was to clean up the paint in the garage, or at least get started on it. I set up some YouTube videos on my laptop, plugged in some speakers (otherwise my laptop sound is not powerful enough) and opened up old paint cans. The YouTube video was all about how the cure is worse than the disease--in other words, how the coronavirus lock down is causing more continuing harm that the coronavirus would have. And how it's now got a momentum of it's own.

Paint, spread out to dry

Kenny and Eric finished setting up Kenny's new boxing bag. He originally wanted a small boxing bag that sits on a springy pole, but everything that he was interested in was out of stock on Amazon. I put a message up on NextDoor, asking to buy one, and somebody offered him the below, for free. The guy lived very close by, too.

Kenny and his new boxing bag

Other than that--we went to the Bellevue Downtown Park again to walk around. Lots of people, but plenty of space to spread out.

Also took a look at the Medina Beach Park, as a potential kayak launch  location.

Kayaking on Phantom Lake and Stickyweed

Thank goodness Jean and I got out on the kayaks yesterday, because today (Saturday) the weather is cloudy and rainy. We met up with Ilana (on her kayak), and did a circumnavigation of Phantom Lake. 

I'm loving my new, easy-assembly folding kayak - the Inlet.

Getting some vitamin D - very important in avoiding respiratory infections, apparently!

A walk around the Coal Creek area again. I had planned to do some fixing of the trails, but there were so many people around that I didn't feel like it. Found this interesting old piece of iron. 

Thanks to the Google Lens app, I found out that this plant is Stickyweed, Galium aparine. Used by kids to make natural "camo" for their clothing, because it has burrs and sticks to everything. And also used to stuff mattresses in former times.