Weekend Rewind

FUN DAYS: This weekend was full of family and fun. Saturday, Nonnie and Bops came up from Bend for Mother's Day weekend.

Saturday afternoon the gang went to Kubota Garden, just a few minutes to MPA's north. 

CJ can tell you more about that. ...

Kubota Garden is a 20-acre public park located in south Seattle. According to Seattle.gov, Kubota Garden fuses Japanese gardening styles with plants native to the Pacific Northwest. Kubota Garden was established in 1927 by Fujitaro Kubota (a Japanese immigrant), and has since become a popular park in the south Seattle region.

Last weekend, I visited Kubota Garden with my grandparents. It was a sunny day, so I brought sunglasses and a sun hat. Throughout the park, several of the plants had their vibrant and diverse colors on display. There appeared to be some photoshoot for a promenade going on, judging by the outfits and surroundings (expensive cameras, for example) of multiple attendees in one place. In addition, several parkgoers had brought their dogs (we didn't bring ours because our dogs would bark at anybody around them).

Towards the end of our visit, my grandmother and I went up a long trail to the peak of the park, at which there was a bench. After reaching the bench, my grandmother and I waited for my other family members to arrive to the bench, and then descend.

Sunday was a fun day, for sure. I stayed behind with Kennedy to help get dinner ready, but the rest of the gang headed to the Museum of Flight. It sounded like there were some great docents on site that day, with compelling stories to tell.

Sunday evening, we had a dinner party for 13. We made gallons of jambalaya, plus  plenty of corn muffins and carrot cake from scratch, and had a nice salad brought by some of our guests. After dinner, we had a jam session on the deck, with Rick, Kennedy, CJ and Annabelle providing musical entertainment. It was so much fun!

HOME-Y: One of our busy Mother's Day activities was picking up a wooden table I found on Facebook Marketplace for free! For months now, I've been watching for the perfect table - I wanted a solid wood pedestal table to bring some warmth to the lobby of the facility where we volunteer. And I wanted it for free, which was the real kicker. ;)

Previously, the space had an ugly, state-issue black laminate topped table and cheap, molded black plastic chairs. 

Lo and behold, the table popped up in my feed and I pursued it kind of relentlessly, with the arranged pick up time changing 4-5 times over two days. The doggedness paid off finally, on Sunday and today, we delivered the table. 

Upon arrival, we were so happy to see the ugly plastic chairs were gone, replaced by a cute pair of recently-donated chairs.  

The entire lobby has such a different feeling now - it's downright welcoming, and one of the workers there reported that the women residents are actually hanging out in the lobby now, for the first time.