Skiing Around the Hood

I'm finishing sorting through the pictures of 2008. I can't believe that the calendar flipped, and so quickly! Here are some pictures from when we had some serious snow.

Exercise Commuters - I love them!

Here is an article from today's Seattle Times, likely targeting all those with New Years resolutions regarding exercise, on the topic of exercise commuting. Microsoft VP incorporates running and the bus into his "exercise commute". In this way, Treadwell has been a source of inspiration for Rich. Treadwell is also active in the Eastside Runners Club.

Richard has been biking to work for the last eight years. He also regularly runs into work. This commuting style allows us to have one car. Four people, one car. Love it.

Powdered Milk

As Recession Deepens, So Does Milk Surplus

KEXP Top 90.3 Countdown 2008

Listener voted and listener powered KEXP!

Rank

Artist
Album
1
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
2
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend
3
TV on the Radio
Dear Science
4
MGMT
Oracular Spectacular
5
Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago
6
The Helio Sequence
Keep Your Eyes Ahead
7
Death Cab For Cutie
Narrow Stairs
8
Santogold
Santogold
9
My Morning Jacket
Evil Urges
10
Beck
Modern Guilt
11
Sigur Ros
Meo Suo I Eyrum Vio Spilum Endalaust
12
Okkervil River
The Stand Ins
13
Kings of Leon
Only By the Night
14
Portishead
Third
15
Flight of the Conchords
Flight of the Conchords
16
M83
Saturdays = Youth
17
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Dig Lazarus Dig!
18
Cut Copy
In Ghost Colours
19
DeVotchKa
A Mad & Faithful Telling
20
David Byrne & Brian Eno
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
21
The Hold Steady
Stay Positive
22
Wolf Parade
At Mount Zoomer
23
Elbow
The Seldom Seen Kid
24
Deerhunter
Microcastle
25
Frightened Rabbit
The Midnight Organ Fight
26
Blitzen Trapper
Furr
27
The Raconteurs
Consoler of the Lonely
28
Cloud Cult
Feel Good Ghosts
29
Sera Cahoone
Only as the Day is Long
30
Hot Chip
Made in the Dark
31
Lykke Li
Youth Novels
32
Hercules and Love Affair
Hercules and Love Affair
33
Girl Talk
Feed The Animals
34
The Black Keys
Attack & Release
35
Coldplay
Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
36
Cat Power
Jukebox
37
Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping
38
The Moondoggies
Dont Be a Stranger
39
She & Him
Volume One
40
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst
41
Ghostland Observatory
Robotique Majestique
42
Crystal Castles
Crystal Castles
43
Gnarls Barkley
The Odd Couple
44
Dodos
Visiter
45
Cold War Kids
Loyalty to Loyalty
46
Grand Archives
The Grand Archives
47
The Walkmen
You & Me
48
The Duchess and the Duke
Shes the Duchess, Hes the Duke
49
Nada Surf
Lucky
50
Calexico
Carried to Dust
51
Mates of State
Re-Arrange Us
52
Ladytron
Velocifero
53
Ratatat
LP3
54
Ra Ra Riot
The Rhumb Line
55
Drive-By Truckers
Brighter Than Creations Dark
56
Dr. Dog
Fate
57
The Kills
Midnight Boom
58
Magnetic Fields
Distortion
59
The Raveonettes
Lust Lust Lust
60
REM
Accelerate
61
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
We Brave Bee Stings and All
62
Jenny Lewis
Acid Tongue
63
Shearwater
Rook
64
Department of Eagles
In Ear Park
65
Foals
Antidotes
66
Black Mountain
In the Future
67
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
Cardinology
68
Bob Dylan
Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
69
Beach House
Devotion
70
No Age
Nouns
71
Animal Collective
Water Curses
72
The National
The Virginia EP
73
The Decemberists
Always the Bridesmaid: A Single Series
74
Los Campesinos!
Hold On Now, Youngster
75
Common Market
Tobacco Road
76
The Ting Tings
We Started Nothing
77
The Black Angels
Directions to See a Ghost
78
King Khan & the Shrines
The Supreme Genius Of
79
School of Seven Bells
Alpinisms
80
Firewater
The Golden Hour
81
Noah & the Whale
Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
82
Blue Scholars
Butter&Gun$
83
Sun Kil Moon
April
84
(Various)
Live at KEXP Volume Four
85
Bonnie Prince Billy
Lie Down in the Light
86
The Roots
Rising Down
87
Tokyo Police Club
Elephant Shell
88
The Mountain Goats
Heretic Pride
89
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
90
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Real Emotional Trash
90.3
Jamie Lidell
Jim

Mina's Chart!!!

Mina spent a bunch of the day working on her "chart". The main happy-faced chart is a chart of all the people in the world. Another is of all the foods that they like to eat. I'm unsure of the other pieces exactly but they followed a similiar theme. As you can see by the three exclamation marks, she was making this with great delight.

Why Didn't I Think of That?

http://www.101cookbooks.com/about/

Sourdough Hotcakes

We have a new breakfast favourite to add to the collection. Sourdough hotcakes (sourdough recipe even included) from the Washingon Local and Seasonal Cookbook by Becky Selengut, -a former chef from The Herbfarm.

2008 Pictures

The New York Times
The Seattle Times

Sending you a hug

Wishing you a time of celebration that is filled with love, hugs, joy and peace.

Our Winter Sleigh

We love anything that gets us out there and active as a family. Here's the latest tool - for our family Christmas gift, we bought the conversion kit for our biking trailer. This will be Mina's warming hut on snowshoe and XC ski trips. This will be the main ride for Mr Miles. We got it this afternoon and had to give it a test ride before dinner...especially considering the ski-on-and-off option will be gone by the end of the week.

We forgot our head lamps! Tomorrow night. This will be a cool way to go around and check out people's Christmas lights. Perhaps on Christmas Eve, we can even go out in costume.

FUN.