Air, Land & Seattle

EYES ON THE SKIES: For the past couple of days, I've seen some crazy looking aircraft flying at a distance while we've been laboring outside. Today, they flew over and Christian IDed them for me - turns out they are MV 22 Marine Osprey!

One flew right over our house this afternoon, slowly, giving me a chance to go grab my camera.

This evening, we did a little reading up on the amazing aircraft.
http://www.marines.com/operating-forces/equipment/aircraft/mv-22-osprey

HOW GROWS IT:  It has been awhile since we've shared a gardening update.  Our sunflowers continue to grow - one pot way moreso than the other.

We don't know why the poor plants in the pot behind Annabelle are so spindly, while the ones right next to them - grown from the same type of seeds - are towering.

A couple of nights ago, we enjoyed potatoes from our garden. We started them months ago, just by cutting up a couple of store-bought potatoes and burying them!

Sunday afternoon, we were walking in the South Lake Union neighborhood and I noticed a tomato plant growing out of the crack in between the sidewalk and an old building!

It even had two tomatoes growing on it (they were hidden by the foliage in this photo).

AILING:  As previously reported here, poor CJ contracted some kind of intestinal ailment when camping over a week ago.  Unfortunately, it has stayed with him, and yesterday it was especially terrible. We made a beeline for the urgent care clinic yesterday morning.  Fortunately, the usually-packed place was quiet, and we got in and out of there in about 90 minutes (fast compared to visits past).  The head nurse thought CJ was the Best Patient Ever.  She told him he had a fantastic vocabulary for a kid his age, and said she wished he could stay there all day just so she could talk to him. :)

Group Health now has some material to work with, shall we say, and they are running some lab tests. We hope to have news tomorrow regarding what CJ's afflicted with and a treatment plan in place.

STILL ROCKIN':  Are you sick of hearing about our rock project yet? Of course you are! We're certainly sick of working on it!

This is how it looked when we installed the first row of rocks on our cliff/hillside a week plus ago.

And here's what it was looking like this afternoon.

So we are making progress, slowly, and sometimes painfully.  It will be wonderful to get it done. Some day.