It took a bit for AG and I to get our act together, get in the car and head out of this place today.  We had quite a windstorm here at the house but minimal rain.  I was a bit concerned about driving in such wind but we headed out, drove  out of the windstorm and into the rainstorm.  I think I preferred the wind.

We headed over to Renton and made a little stop that I’ll post about later.  We then visited The Knittery which is a tee niny yarn shop in Renton.  It was good size by Florida standards but tee niny by Washington standards.  I picked up a few skeins of Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool in a reddish auburn color.  I’d show ya a picture but I didn’t take one.

AG is a bit wild when you’re trying to shop especially in yarn shops so I carry her everywhere.  It’s my only method of keeping her contained.  Anyway, she loves to touch everything and say "yarn" over and over.   I keep trying to get her not to touch stuff.  She says "yarn", tries to touch, I say "no touch yarn", etc.  You get the idea. 

Anyway, today I was looking for red yarn.  So since she’s big into proving she knows her colors I thought I’d distract her by asking her to show mommy where the red yarns were.  She wasn’t interested and continued to jabber.  That is until I picked up a skein of purple yarn.  She stopped mid-jabber and announced "dats no red, dats puh puh".  In other words…. that’s not red, that’s purple.

Yep…. that talking thing is really taking off!

From there we headed out to get lost in Renton, find out way out of being lost in Renton, getting lost in Renton again and then headed back toward home, detouring at the Green River Gorge.  We crossed the Cedar River (which is quite high) and we crossed the Green River several times (also quite high).  I guess I hoped there was a tippy top place where you could look across/down/whatever the gorge kinda like the Tallulah Gorge.  I searched, and drove, and got lost (rinse and repeat).  While I saw cool farms and great fall foliage I did not find the tippy, tippy top of the gorge.  Or a lookout.  I crossed the gorge many times via bridge, even a cool one laned bridge, but no lookout.  Write your senators, people.

While I did see cool things many of them were not cool enough to justify standing out in the rain for a photo.  I did discover many small towns: Kangley, Kanaskat, Palmer, Cumberland and Selleck… the last one being so small that I couldn’t find it on the map…. the map I was using to find my way out of being terribly lost.  In the end, I just went back the way I came and enjoyed the scenery all over again.

I did see one thing worth  getting soaked for a photo.  I was driving and looking off in the distance at this helicopter.  The thing had something tied to a rope and was flying it across the field.  At first I thought it was livestock.  As I got closer I realized they were clearing boulders that had tumbled down with the flooding.

The rains are supposed to continue for the next several days.  I’m trying to pretend it is sunny outside.  Such weather is a bit rough on someone who spent all their life in the Hurricane Sunshine State.

Toodles!