Tin Mine Falls

sunrise at Kitsap house , watching sun slowly come up

Saturday in Port Orchard... July 23, 2022

Modern Family Room - Family Room

Ideas for a large, contemporary, open-concept family room remodel with white walls, a tile fireplace, a traditional fireplace, and a media wall

Snaps on the Kitsap Peninsula: Part I of V

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2019. Kitsap Peninsula. UW Marshland. Somewhere around Yakima. 

Jon Oleyar

Friday's Puget Sound Sunrise Breakfast. Kitsap Peninsula. .

Ground Zero, we need to talk.

Pretty much everyone on the Kitsap Peninsula is in the Navy, was in the Navy, works for the Navy, has worked for the Navy, is or was directly involved in supporting the Navy locally, works for any of the aforementioned people, or is the friend/family/etc of all of the above.

"The Navy has a lot of nukes here" is news only to the bohemian weirdos and transplants.

so we went to the dealership to see what the trade-in value for the honda was and it ended up being just enough for us to justify getting this prius we were looking at because it was at a good price and we'd been talking about wanting to get a new car anyway (specifically a prius) for a number of reasons. and i was excited to start driving it because it's a pretty modern car and it has tinted windows and basically i feel fancy in it even though it's from 2016 and it has 160k miles on it so we went on an afternoon road trip along the kitsap peninsula and we got to see cool views of the mountains and we stopped at a cidery and it felt like i was a wealthy englishperson spending an afternoon in the quaint countryside or perhaps a bitch in mondstadt going to go fuck around with diluc (only real genshinheads will get this sick reference)

and during the car ride my girlfriend brought up an article she was reading about this annoying fuckhead who was talking about how chicago (his hometown) is better than seattle for really immature and personal reasons and not because of anything objective, and no the person who wrote this article wasn't patrick stump it was some other dickhead. he was talking about how he hates scenery and seeing the mountains because they're too hard to physically get to because you have to plan a big weekend-long trip and having kids makes that complicated. and how chicago is better because the forests are easier to get to and he knows the names of all the local birds and flora but in seattle it's all just second-growth douglas fir. and like do you see what i mean about this article just sounding childish

anyway i'm not #blogging about this one idiot just to rag on him but the point that i made to girlfriend is that he sounded very much like he was miserable living in seattle for a number of factors but instead of recognizing that they were internal, he blamed the environment he was in instead of trying to accept that it was a big change from what he was used to and trying to change along with it. or trying to put forth the effort to be able to go out and see the mountains because we are literally like 2 hours away from both the cascades to the east and the olympics to the west and it's really not hard to get to either of them at all. there are plenty of local birds that aren't just crows or seagulls or pigeons, either, and there's LITERALLY AN ARBORETUM IN THE CITY THAT'S NOT DIFFICULT TO GET TO!!!!! there is SO MUCH nature that's accessible and diverse but the thing is that you have to PUT FORTH THE EFFORT to be able to see it

and i had this realization to myself while i was expressing this to my girlfriend that when you're miserable, it's so so easy to give into the cynical thinking your brain wants to spiral in. "it's not that i'm frustrated by the limitations of my job or my family, it's because those silly mountains are taunting me!" "it's not that i'm refusing to put forth the effort to adapt to my new environment, it's that this current environment is boring and uninteresting compared to what i'm used to!" and i have a huge headache right now so i won't go into the specifics of it but i was thinking about how this impacts My thinking and how I'm a victim of this cynicism

like it boiled down to there being meaning and history and purpose and life through anything if you're just willing to put forth the effort to find it and i think part of why i'm as depressed as i am is because i feel like capitalism removes humanity from people and that's why you get people saying "mountains are stupid because it's not easy for me to get to them"

@mantisshrinp submitted: ID please? Found sleebin in the soil in my garden on the Kitsap Peninsula, WA. (🎶 Under the worm, under the worm! Darling it's grimier down where it's slimier, under the worm! 🎶) Curled up like that, it was about the size of a quarter; maybe a lil bigger

Ohhh just two pals hangin out! Love this for them. It’s a noctuid moth caterpillar, most likely a large yellow underwing :)

Wood Lake in the Morning Mist

deer!

hi!! i saw we live pretty close (as far as the US goes lol) and i was wondering, if you’re happy with the breeder, where did you get blue from?? i’ve been looking to get a service dog for a while now and im trying to add as many breeders to my list as possible!! thanks!

For sure! I will say, I’m happy with the breeding job and I know they’ve had successful service dogs from their breeding program before, but their communication wasn’t great, especially after I brought Blue home. Just in the sense of like, they only emailed me a few times—when he was born, for payment, and when he was old enough to come home—and when I messaged them asking for the contact info for Blue’s litter mates because he needed puppies to play with, I never heard back, not even a “no, we don’t feel comfortable sharing that.” So their communication/customer service leaves something to be desired. They did have regular updates of his litter on their website, though.

Customer service was meh, but what’s more important to me personally is that Blue is a healthy dog with a good temperament and who is incredibly confident while not being overly independent, which are all good things for a service dogs and signs of good breeding, and their dams and sires are all AKC registered.

So all of that said, the breeder we got Blue from is Puget Sound Retrievers in Gig Harbor, which is in Pierce County but on the Kitsap Peninsula.

If you’re looking for a Golden specifically, you can also find some breeders on the Evergreen Golden Retriever Club website! EGRC is the Seattle chapter of the American Golden Retriever Club, which of course is the Golden “chapter” of the AKC.

Good luck!

Point No Point Lighthouse (Washington)

Point No Point Light is an operational aid to navigation on the northeastern tip of the Kitsap Peninsula on the west side of Puget Sound, at Point No Point in the U.S. state of Washington.

The light was built in 1879 and initially only consisted of the eleven-foot square tower. Later additions would first come with the brick watch room, measuring ten by twelve feet, on the landward side. In 1898 a fog signal building would by added to the seaward side of the lighthouse for the installation to a foghorn to replace the outdated fog-bell.

Prior to the installation of the fog signal building the light was forcefully overtaken from first keeper John Maggs by his assistant Abram Manning, who had been enraged by Maggs' comments on his poor job servicing the light. Manning, along with his family, would soon be evicted from the property by the local lighthouse inspector.

Point No Point was automated in 1977, and leased over to the local county in 1998 for public access. By 2010 ownership of the light was transferred over fully to Kitsap County and it has received extensive renovations. While the Point No Point lighthouse has no inside tours, the nearby keepers duplex serves as a museum and vacation rental, along with being the HQ of the U.S. Lighthouse Society.

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M/V Spokane

Another trip across Puget Soundt to the Kitsap Peninsula.

Can you see Mount Baker?

Appletreecove - Kingston, WA