Dad, Brittany, and I went up to the Skagit Valley to see all the tulips last weekend. It was super fun!
I liked this planting arrangement, with the flowers "pouring" out of the pots.
Either nobody heeded this sign, or everyone was a tulip that day!
I think this variety was my favorite.
This is how I feel in social settings.
These may have been my second favorite.
Everything Seattle likes! Uncle Matt probably has a booming business!
This is a vet clinic-I wish ours looked like that!
While we were touring the gardens, we kept seeing a helicopter circling above, evidently giving tours. Dad drove towards where we saw it go down, and found a place that gave helicopter rides above the fields! (It wasn't the same place as had the helicopter that we were tracking though.) So I had my first helicopter ride, and got some bird's eye pictures of the tulips too. I immensely enjoyed the ride, but as far as seeing the tulips from the air-I wasn't greatly impressed. The main reason for my disappointment was that you lost the vibrant color that you get up close-they just looked dull.
We stayed Friday night in Seattle-this was our hotel window view of roadwork on I-5.
Saturday morning, Dad took us on a drive through downtown Seattle where we saw several interesting sites, including the Space Needle.
And Pike Market Place on the Elliot Bay!
The original Starbucks coffee is there.
We came across several pigeons and other birds that had no regard for humans at all. This fellow was sitting, inside the market, on top of a fish vendor's sign.
I loved touring the marketplace! It reminded me of the open air markets that they have in countries like Greece and such, with everything piled everywhere.
This stand, as well as several other foreign bakeries, made my mouth water.
The famous, "throw-the-fish-around" fish vendors.
Mom, this is for you. You should start a fabric swap community! 😂
Brittany and I sniffed out a candy shop, but unfortunately it was early in the morning and they weren't open yet.
The problem is, I think I'd have to park just to have the time to figure out whether or not I am allowed to park! Super confusing!
Then we went and visited Kent & Brandie in what will be their home for the next three months or so. It is only a few minutes from the hospital, and is a nice little place.
We were at the corner, trying to find a Starbucks before trying to find out what apartment K & B even lived in, and who should start calling from above our heads but Kent! He gave us directions on parking, but all parking was full and we had to find something else anyway.
(Disclaimer-this picture isn't from when he was talking to us, but on one of our multiple trips around the block, trying to find a place to park.)
I had lots of fun, and then it was back home where Jazzy had had twin does!
This one is Josephine.
I don't think this one has a name yet.
Polly had two kitten last week! I don't know why all my dogs, cats, and goats have been stuck on "twin mode" for the last year. I'm getting a little sick of it!
I had retained two rabbit bucks from last year, but I'm not liking how either of them is maturing, so I bought two more bucks.
This huge, pretty guy is Chester.
And this equally huge guy is Smurf.
I sold my sickly little calf a couple weeks ago, got more than I expected for him, and put the money straight into my bank account like a responsible adult.
Okay fine, I'll tell the truth. I bought a goat. Surprise, surprise!
Her name is Eclipse, and she is Flicka's niece. I had had a reservation on her, before she was born, in the fall of 2016, but the breeder gave me the deposit back because she was concerned about genetic health problems in the sire. The problems were later determined to not be genetic, and the breeder kept this doe kid. She is now liquidating her entire herd, so I jumped on the chance to buy this pretty girl! She is bred and due May 30th.
Yesterday, she reached her giraffe neck through the fence and somehow got ahold of, and tugged, a fifty pound sack of feed to the fence, opened it up as cleanly as I could have done with a pair of scissors, and ate a whole pile of the feed inside. I think I was more livid (with myself mainly, but also with stupid goats that will eat themselves to death on a whim) than scared, but I hit her with baking soda, milk of magnesia, and two big doses of C & D antitoxin. She hasn't shown any signs of illness, yet, and was playing, bucking and twisting around the pen this morning, but I'm taking no chances. I lost Mueslie to enterotoxemia in 2015, when I didn't take preventative steps, thinking she was fine because she never bloated-I assumed she hadn't eaten very much.
Anyway, I think/hope she will be fine.
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