All cookied out

Cookies for work, cookies for friends, neighbors and family. Cookies for The Ukes holiday potluck today. Sunday was my cookie assembly day, and I am so cookied out for another year.

OK, more cute kid pictures coming up, sent from Amanda this weekend.

The Methow Valley is under a winter storm warning; nothing but rain for us. It's that breezy Seattle rain that comes at you from from all directions and gets on your glasses, even with an umbrella.  It's been a warm winter so far, that can still change, but other than a bit of frost on the windshields, nothing close to a hard freeze. We only have a few hours of murky daylight now, good thing, otherwise the garden would really wake up.

We were out on the town in West Seattle yesterday afternoon. After the play, the restaurants and bars were a bit more subdued than I expected. Of course it was still early, it was raining, and the Seahawks just had a miserable loss which probably kept spirits damped down. 

"Jane Eyre" turned out to be a full-fledged Broadway-type musical, and the heavily miked voices were really something in that small theater. It went on for over two hours!  (John is a good husband-- and I'll leave it at that.)

We went to the Kizuki Ramen Noodle place, which is a chain restaurant all over the world.  We're not very sophisticated diners I guess, and were kind of confused what to order.  Then what came didn't look much like the pictures on the menu.  Mine had a whole, peeled, soft-boiled egg floating in it.  It was a perfectly cooked egg, but how do you manage that slippery thing with chopsticks?  Interesting, but I think I prefer pho.

Back to normal home cooking for a couple more days. Then I leave for Las Vegas very early on Wednesday morning, and John goes on his teriyaki routine.