We had an awesome brew day at our apartment Sat. We made ten gallons of beer. Five winter warmer, five oatmeal stout. It was quite a party with 4 of our friends. Three girls knitted while three guys made beer, very gender role oriented. It was great fun. We finished with a nice supper of frozen pizza, salad, and cookies. Here's Christian and I by the brew kettle.

We have had a crazy amount of fog lately. Some days it is foggy the whole day. Others it burns off in the late afternoon. Last weekend there was a sunny patch, but as the sun was setting we watched the fog move in off the ocean fill the city in a slow, creeping glacier of fog. Very cool. Here's a photo.

While Emmy has wildfires threatening her house, we get rain.

Info HERE

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and cool video HERE

Snowshoe season is open

At long last, we opened up our season. We went up to Talapus Lake on Sunday with Keren and CJ. It's an easy 45 minutes from our house. My favorite part of snowshoeing is bounding down the hills through the forest.

As soon as we got home to Seattle, it started snowing. We got about 2 inches on Capitol Hill. Beautiful. By morning it was slushy and not slick (phew- easy bus ride!). Brian predicts one more layer of snow in the city before Snowpocalypse 2008/9 is done.

Happy New Year!

After a restful New Year's Day filled with food and friends, I'm ready to start blogging again.

We spent the holidays in DC, Maryland, New York (Alicia) and MA (Brian). Thank you to everyone who could come out in DC with us. We had a fabulous time.

In Hagerstown, my grandparents and my cousin Max were able to come from Belgium! Brian has renewed his resolution to learn French.

As promised, here are photos of some knitted Christmas presents.