Larry & Shirley (and the Messy Monkeys): A Walk by the River

Sunday, April 20, 2008

A Walk by the River

The Samamish River Trail in Redmond, Washington

Blogs can be very useful for many things....Some ladies in the North Seattle/Eastside field started a blog a month or so ago in order to get together and walk a couple times a week. http://walkalongtheriver.blogspot.com/ If you want to walk on a particular date, as shown on the blog, you leave a comment saying that you want to walk. I joined a couple of the ladies--Lainey Burgess and Melisa Parker--on Thursday, April 10, and we walked about seven miles round trip on the Samamish River Trail, "yacking" all the way! It is a long way to Redmond from Lake Stevens, though. Wonder if anyone would be interested in a walking blog up north here, or, how 'bout a get together for coffee blog...or anything...? (We could be creative, here.)

My walking companions

1 comment:

NadineB said...: Lori and I try to go walking at 3PM around our "block" every week day, but it's sporatic sometimes because of kids schedules and other stuff. You're welcome to join us, but I realize that's a hard time to be away. Maybe this summer, we can do some walking on the trail here!; April 24, 2008 at 6:19 PM

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Welcome to Our Place - Updated for Spring 2012

We live between Marysville and Granite Falls. Larry still works at Crane-Eldec in Lynnwood, but due to a change in his work schedule in February 2011, he is no longer in a van pool. Instead he bought himself a Ford Focus to use as his work car. Shirley is Mom, "chauffeur," and chief bunny caretaker. We have two daughters: Rosanna, age 20, and Caroline, age 17.We used to have two pet bunny brothers, Lucky and Thumper, who turned 9 years old on October 5. But Lucky got really sick, and had him put to sleep a few days before Christmas last year. So sad.... Thumper doesn't even miss him; he is happy as long as he is fed!

Larry and Shirley are really into running this year, qualifying for Half Fanatics in January. The Seattle Rock-n-Roll half marathon will be our fourth in 2012, and we would like to do four more, if possible, and move up in Half Fanatics!
Caroline is a junior in high school, and Rosanna continues to work at the Ralph Lauren Polo store at Seattle Premium Outlets in Tulalip.

We all continue to enjoy taking photos, and Rosanna also took a photography class at Everett Community College last spring. (We bought her a Nikon DSLR for the class). She has made some money doing photography for a local business in nearby Granite Falls last fall. And I am still using my super tiny Olympus camera for photos "on the run!"