Thornton A. Sullivan Park

Hauge Homestead Park

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”  - 
John Ruskin 

from Gratefulness.org:

 WORD FOR THE DAY

Saturday, Dec. 1

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from many, it's research.
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

more from the Board of Wisdom site:

To err is human.
To blame someone else is good management skills. 

and

Why can't life be simple like it used to be, when all you had to do was kill your food, make fire without matches, and wash your clothes on rocks?  - Linda Poindexter

 

 

Horizon View Park - Lake Forest Park

kind of ironic, usually I am not quick enough to catch an unexpected plane zooming by, but here I am at a site that used to watch foe enemy aircraft . . .

from Lake Forest Park View:

"Little known Horizon View Lake Forest Park fact:  Ready for this one? Horizon View Park used to be a Nike Missile site!  It was the radar tracking portion of the system, but it was right here in Horizon View Park from 1957 until it was decommissioned in 1964.  You can still see the relics if you look closely.  After my daughter beat me at a game of tennis, we wandered up an old staircase that was covered in brambles and seemed to literally lead to nowhere.  I didn’t know it at the time, but this was one of the radar pads left over from the old site – it was still a bit eerie.  The actual launching site is over on 1st and 228th on Nike Hill in Bothell (I also had no idea where the nick name had come from for the hill). Through out the 1950s Seattle got a lot of these installed apparently. "


Dang, I didn't read up on this park before I went, when the rain started getting heavy, I figured I had seen enough . . . apparently I should have continued to wander past the tennis courts . . .

Found on Board of Wisdom:

Slogans for Women's T-shirts

8. Don't treat me any differently than you would the Queen.
16. And your point is...?
18. Warning: I have an attitude and I know how to use it.
20. Do NOT start with me. You will NOT win.

You laugh at me cuz I'm different. I laugh at you cuz you're all the same.
- some t-shirt company

 I'll try being nicer when you try being smarter.
- on one my t-shirts

Live your life so the preacher won't have to lie at your funeral.
- a shirt

You say I'm lazy,
I say I'm on energy-saving mode.

 Sometimes, "The Majority" only means that all the fools are on the same side
- t-shirt