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8月12日 Logger's Jubilee RecapTravelled to Morton for the annual Logger's Jubilee and did my usual triathlon, lawnmower races on Friday night, the Jubilee 10k Saturday morning and dancing at the Moose Club in the evening.
Another standing room only crowd for the mower races and there was a ton of racers too. Enough for eight heats and five mains. Checking in, I was handed a trophy that I evidently won in the C Main from the previous year. I joked that I should have just took it and left while I was ahead.
I timed into the 5th heat, with heat 8 being the fastest guys. Brothers Andy and Ted timed in slightly slower after trials but both won their heats. So the pressure was really on me. I started in lane three and somehow got the lead into corner one. I was increasing my lead when on lap two the mower started stalling for a couple seconds each lap in the south corner. (nearest the beer garden.) I managed to hold off the competition with some tricky driving but with one lap to go I stalled again and two guys plowed me good into a hay bale dropping me into third. I bounced right off it and finished strong but couldn't solve the stalling issue. I qualified for the B Main and immediately took the lead again. This was key since only the winner of that main advances to the A Main. For three laps I was cruising but then the stalling thing started again and I was passed by one mower. Despite the issues, I held my position until two laps left when two more guys came around my sluggish machine. Oh it was so damn frustrating. There's no question I would have been in the final had the machine been running smoother. I would have been slaughtered by the NASCAR wanna-be's in the final but just getting into that race would have been victory for me.
I was frustrated by my engine troubles so after the B, I loaded my mower up and headed home before the Finals so I could beat traffic. Keep in mind, this is a rural town of 1100 people that are spread out all over the place but during the lawnmower races, there are about 3500 people crammed into Jubilee Arena.
Saturday I was up early for the 10k. It was raining that morning but it stopped just before the run and the cool, cloudy weather was great. I ran a decent race, right around 46:00 which means I am not getting faster, but not getting slower either. I ran with a group of four for a couple miles and then ran from mile two to mile five with a girl that has been running the race for years with her father. Normally I beat her by a couple of minutes but each year she gets faster and this year she was really fast. We were kind of pacing off each other, when one would slow a little, the other would drop back a little to pick them up again. I slowed a couple times so she could catch up but at mile five there is a killer hill and when we reached the top I was toast. She started to slow for me but I told her not to wait for me. She took off, caught one more guy ahead of us and set a new PR in the process. She was really happy and I felt old.....Kind of how I felt the first time I beat the race organizer, only in reverse. I ran with my iPod for once and by total accident I had a great music mix.
Did the parade with neice Annika and we got lots of candy. The rest of the day was spent relaxing and playing with Annika and the nephews. Of course in the evening I had to make my token appearance at the Moose Club but I hardly recognized anyone there. Just a bunch of young 20-somethings that I didn't know. I did stay long enough to participate in an Electric Slide line dance. I was the only male in the joint who knew the dance. The group I was with was even more bored than I was so we left kind of early.
Sunday was a typical wind down day. We took Annika and Benny to the flea market, which they loved. The town was swamped with tourists, it's often estimated that 10,000 people will pass through town during the Jubilee and this year I almost believe it. I think gas prices are keeping people closer to home and that might have benefited Morton this year.
7月30日 Open Water SwimmingMy friend Charles is training for a triathlon in British Columbia next month and I'm doing a few sprint triathlons during the summer so he's been joining me now and then for my open water swims in Lake Washington at Seward Park. There's a great cove there with several bouys and lots of people do their swim training in that area. Most people just swim out and back to the first one but I hate it when it's crowded so I've started swimming in a triangle course around them. Charles mentioned that he's always wanted to swim completely around the park which juts out into the lake. It's about 2.4 miles, beach to beach which is the distance he'll have to swim in the Iron Man in BC.
I was hurting from running the Seafair Torchlight 8k the night before (I bonked at the 2-mile mark, it was so warm out and I had to trudge to the finish line down a parade route lined with 300,000 people) but I thought the water might actually make my sore legs feel better. It did! One more note about the run. I like to stay and cheer for the final finishers. This year I actually knew one of them, PW, a VP with the now departed Seattle Sonics.
Anyway we tried the swim and it was much easier than I thought it would be. Granted Charles ate a pizza before the swim and didn't wear a wetsuit like I did, but I was cruising the whole time and actually kept stopping and waiting for him as the pizza thing didn't go over real well. I had been a little nervous because two years before I couldn't complete the Fat Salmon Swim, which was over three miles between the I-90 and 520 floating bridges in Seattle. Actually, I could have finished it but I was going too slow and everyone behind me was pulled out of the water and soon every single support boat and paddleboarder was right behind me. That was pretty embarrassing and took the wind out of my sails. Also very windy that day and the water was so rough. (Tangent Man has struck again, making a short story long....but let me continue lengthening it.)
Anyway, I climb into one of the support boats at the 2.25 mile mark and onboard are a local news anchor, KCPQ 13's Bill Wixey and a really gorgeous female lifeguard type, oh man was she cute. I wasn't so concerned about Wixey seeing me give up but no guy wants a really cute girl seeing him as a quitter. To make matters worse, I was the last quitter of the day so I had to slowly ride back in the boat which was now trailing the only other guy in the swim that I could see. It was a slow ride in.
So the Seward Park swim was a redemption of sorts. I finished and felt great. I could have swam for quite awhile longer in fact. The one downer was that when we reached the beach, someone had stolen both of our towels and a pair of old flip flops I had borrowed from his wife. They left Charles smelly old tennis shoes and took everything else. Nice!
7月25日 Seafair Triathlon Splits BreakdownWell I completed another sprint triathlon, the Seafair Triathlon last Sunday in Seward Park and I was pretty happy with my results. I set a new PR, finishing in 1:21:40, which was 53 seconds better than my previous best, set in 2003. It was also almost seven minutes faster than last year's time so I was really happy.
I did the swim in 14:40, which was also a personal best by 1:20 (also set in 2003) but had a sluggish transition to the bike, going 2:50. It's stupid but I had a sock inside out and I actually took the time to take it off and put it on again rightside out. Kind of stupid and I'm not sure why I couldn't wear it inside out, kind of funny. I was really concentrating on the bike portion and I really pushed hard and missed another personal best by just 23 seconds, finishing that in 37:58 which was way faster than every other year except 2003. I might have done better if my breaks hadn't been sticking and squealing and I've got to get a roadbike before next year. I was kicking butt for a hybrid rider but I just couldn't stick with some of the road bikes on the downhill and long straightaways. I flew through the bike to run transition in 1:09 which I was pretty happy with. The run was another PR by 3 seconds, finishing in 25:02. That time ranked 502nd overall so that was my worst segment despite being my best time ever. I really pushed hard in the others and left the run to sort itself out. I had some lactic acid built up at the start and managed to push through it.
With the wave start, you can read people's ages on the backs of their legs and see how much time you've made up on them. The last mile and a half I was passing back and forth with a 24-year-old woman. She re-passed me coming down the heartbreak hill with a mile left and then I got her back when she had to stop to tie her shoe. Coming into the finish line I wasn't kicking too hard because I didn't want to pull anything. Suddenly I hear the crowd roaring and since I wasn't about to pass anyone, I knew someone was about to pass me. I saw her shadow too late and she had momentum on her side to nip me at the line. She did manage to help me fend off another guy my age by one second though.
I finished 333rd out 1405 finishers but 48th in my age bracket. (110 in the age bracket, 677 men overall) Had I been two seconds faster, I would have placed second in the women's 50-54 age bracket and I would have been 4th in the men's 60-64 group. That's inspiring that those folks are beating my butt.
My swim time ranked 370th, bike time ranked 387th and run was 502nd. I only dropped 15 places overall in the run so I hung in there. Normally my worst leg is the bike, so there were a lot of fast runners this time. I hit all my main goals. Only thing I didn't do was go under 1:20:00 but that was my pipe dream goal. I really only trained hard for 3-4 weeks and I only ran a couple of times so hopefully I can get another few races in and show more improvement. 7月17日 Seattle Selling Expensive Crap....I love the headlines on MSN today involving crappy Seattle investments....(pun intended) First the city is trying to sell some really expensive self-cleaning public toilets which ended up being used mostly for drug deals and prostitution. They're trying to sell on eBay but so far no takers. This even made New York Times website. Here's the MSN link. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25721700/>1=4300
Speaking of New York, the Yankees are picking up some other expensive Seattle crap, the $50 million dollar flop of a first baseman known as Richie Sexson who was battling the Mendoza Line again this season. (hey personally I have no problems with the guy but he stinks it up on the field.) Of course the Mariners will pay the majority of his $14 million owed this season while the Yanks will kick in $390,000 as the pro-rated minimum. He may turn it around in the Big Apple playing only part time but if he continues playing like he did for us, he will get eaten alive by the media and the fans.
We sure know how to spend money wisely in this city....We just flush it down the toilet. 7月14日 Royalty In Randle, WashingtonIn news from Eastern Lewis County....
Over the past weekend, French president Nicolas Sarkozy along with 40 leaders launched the Union for the Mediterranean. One of its aims will be to bring fresh energy to the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations process.
Okay, you're asking how does this tie in to Lewis County? Well it's a stretch but one world leader missing the Union Meetings was Jordan's King Abdullah II. Why wasn't he attending? Not really sure but on Sunday afternoon he may have been eating lunch in Randle, Washington, a small town on the White Pass highway. A tipster alerted me that while she was eating lunch in a Randle Cafe (after attending her White Pass High School reunion) the place was overrun with state patrol officers and secret service agents. The staff was tight lipped but later it leaked out that the King was passing through the area. Did he stop to eat or was it just the staff dining? Not really sure about that but it was exciting for the locals either way.
Apparently the King was accompanied by his wife but no other details were released at this time. Maybe they were touring Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier, there really isn't much else in the way of international tourist attractions in the area. No word on whether the King will return in August for the Morton Logger's Jubilee Lawnmower Races.
5月12日 Chinese Earthquake...Horrible news today about the devastating earthquake in China....my thoughts and prayers are with my friends there. I hope you and your families are all doing okay. Just an awful tragedy in what is supposed to be a year of celebration in your country.... 5月9日 The Flanagan Precept Part IILast weekend I went with my buddy to see another show by my favorite local band, The Flanagan Precept. Actually I really don't know too many other local bands besides them except for my friend Stevo's band but I can't even remember what band he's in at the moment....sigh....They say your memory is the second thing to go, I can't remember what the first is. Anyway, Flanagan was at a bar in Everett so I rode up there on the one day of the week I didn't need to drive there for work. SIGH! And of course I saw people from work at the show. One other note, I think they give you a bit stiffer drinks in Everett than in Seattle.
I like mentioning TFP (as I will now refer to them) because I think I get more people hitting on my blog searching their name. One of those people was actually the drummer and the rest of the band pointed out to him that I was the blogger that was slightly critical of him on a couple of songs and he sort of growled and scowled. He's a good-sized dude so my first comment on the Everett show will be "THE DRUMMER KICKED ASS....HE REALLY TORE IT UP!" Really my only complaint was that the changeover between the opening band and TFP was nearly an hour so they didn't start until almost midnight....Since my ride was from Renton and I was feeling the effects of one too many drinks waiting for their set to start, we didn't stay for the whole show....but what we heard was good.....They're worth checking out. Oh yeah, they asked me to add their link in case anyone else hits on the blog.
Where Have I Been?If anyone actually reads any of my postings you'll notice I haven't written for almost two months....Well, besides being alternately busy and lazy, I also took a two week trip to SE Asia where I crammed in at least four weeks worth of travel and sightseeing and met my lovely Chinese internet pen pal Jinyi for the first time. I've got a few photos up here already and I'll try and post more and get a link to her photo site. Quite an amazing trip, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and back to Thailand. I post some impressions and tips when I get the chance. Actually a month ago today I was in Hanoi catching a bus to Ha Long Bay.......man I wish I was still traveling. (with Little Elephant) Economic Stimulus....Well I just noticed on my on-line banking account that my economic stimulus check was deposited on the 2nd. (due to my low last two social security numbers) Holy crap! Now I can retire! My prayers have been answered.....what a crock. What knuckleheads cook this stuff up? It cost taxpayers billions to send this stuff to me. I got a letter from the IRS explaining what the money was....our tax dollars at work.... The worst part is they'll figure a way to get that money back from us in triple with more taxes. Meanwhile our country's schools and infrastructure are crumbling. The folks living in the trailer park can make a beer and cigarettes run to Wal-Mart though with their $600 checks.....Sigh.... 3月14日 Well, I'm Not In Prison.....Here's a crazy little nugget I read on MSN today:
"The truth is that 90 percent of American men have been married by the age of 40, which, if you subtract prison inmates, is almost the entire straight male population."
I'm 41.....not married and not in prison.....so what exactly are they inferring here? The article didn't cite a source so I'm not sure who is representing the truth in this case. Should I be concerned? 3月13日 South West Plumbing, SeattleOkay I writing about my plumbing experiences with South West Plumbing in Seattle so that if anyone else searches for them online, maybe I can help them out. To be fair, I'm sure nobody is ever happy with what they have to pay for a plumber, myself included but I realize they'e in business to make money and they have a right to charge what the market will bear. However, I think $600-800 an hour is a bit excessive for snaking out a sewer line. I've had an occasional problem with my sewer line backing up into my bathroom, it happens once in a blue moon and then everything slowly seeps back down. Well it happened twice over the weekend and Monday morning I decided I was going to have a professional come in and snake out the entire line and diagnose what was going on.
I searched the internet and couldn't sort out who was close so I turned to old fashioned yellow pages and came up on South West which looked like a nice local shop. Called them up and they said someone could be there in less than an hour, between 10am-noon and they would give me an estimate. Here's where they get great feedback, they showed up right at 10am (surprise) and the guys seemed nice enough. I explained the problem to them and they said they charged a flat rate and they'd have to go calculate that in the truck. They came back and quoted me $766.43 and my jaw dropped...I told them that seemed way too expensive to me and they said well maybe they could knock some off if I removed the toilet and re-seated it myself. They recalculated and said they could knock off $188.92 if I did that myself. I said I still thought it was high but they kind of gave me the hard sell and I was already late for work so I foolishly caved. BTW-it took me three minutes to remove the toilet and four minutes to reinstall, and they were going to charge me $188 to do that. Should have been a huge red flag right there! They also gave me a wax ring which I told them I already had and also a flange repair kit that turned out to be the wrong size. I could have bought the items at the local hardware store for about $5 so no great deal there.
So they put down a couple of mats, which again I had put my own down already and spent a couple minutes to crawl under my house just to look at my pipes and then assembled a motorized snake. They spent about 20 minutes of snaking 100 ft. of line and hit one small blockage they said. They were out the door and in their truck 45 minutes later. Total time spent door to door, 45 minutes...total bill with $50 tax, $628!! This includes the time they spent trying to sell me on hiring them to run a camera down the line (they didn't have one with them but would come back to do that for $375) and digging up my old concrete line and replacing it with a plastic one. That's buried under my concrete driveway so I didn't ask how much that would cost. At $600 an hour, I'd likely need to take out another mortgage to pay for it.
So they were prompt, polite and my line hasn't backed up again for the last few days BUT.....I feel the price was way too much and they don't guarentee their work and no warrenty without the aforementioned camera work down the line. They also didn't really read the dispatchers notes because they said they expected a problem in a basement. They blamed the mix-up on the dispatcher but the office read the dispatcher's notes back to me and it was exactly what I told her, they were making that part up.
I called the office and said I appreciated the prompt and courteous service but that I felt they charged way too much for the work actually performed. I was transferred to a manager who told me he'd look at the bill and take it into consideration but that they charged higher rates because they gave superior service. He told me that they had a formula for determining how much each job should take and that they would not have charged more if the job had taken 4-5 hours instead of 45 minutes. I kind of doubt that but the actual labor with equipment use portion of the call was only 20 minutes and total time was 45 minutes!
He called the next day and said he was still waiting for the tech to turn the invoice in...Finally, today he called back and said he looked at the invoice and said he thought charges were totally fair. He said they charged more because they had "nice, clean trucks and their tech wore clean uniforms instead of overalls. They were a larger company with a high overhead." I told him at those kind of prices I would not be using them again and he said that was fine because there were "plenty of people who were willing to pay more for their superior customer service." You know I just wanted my sewer line unclogged, I didn't care if the tech's outfit was spotless. He's a plumber, I expect him to get dirty on the job. Speaking of job, I feel I was jobbed....
Today I did a quick google search of their name and found a bunch of testamonials from people warning of their excessive prices....wished I had done that to begin with. Saved me a bunch of cash and a bitter taste left in my mouth.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing their work but I had a fairly simple problem that took basically no time for them to fix. (at least I hope it's fixed for now) I would have hoped that they would have seen fit to refund part of my money due to the ease of the job. They are just way overpriced and seem to think they're plumbers to the stars or something. As for the claims that plenty of people are willing to pay their rates, I'm sure many of those people are fools like me who cave when they show up and then tell us the amount. Check out the other testamonials on line and you'll see a pattern....
3月11日 Time Waits For No Man....However, I waited to change my clocks when we did the "fall back" thing.....actually I never changed most of them, including the one in my truck and as of 2am last Sunday, they're all back to the correct time with daylight savings. So by procrastinating, I saved time and energy....Am I smart or what? 3月10日 Another Moral Crusader Bites The Dust....Okay I thought I was having a bad day. My plumbing problem reared it's ugly head again this morning, the drain backing up while I was in the shower. So I bit the bullet and called a plumbing company (more on that later) to try and figure this damn thing out once and for all. They actually got there fast, were friendly guys and did a nice job, but......they didn't do that much and charged quite a bit. Over $600 for 45 minutes total time and about 15-20 of that was actually running a snake down the sewer pipe....I think I got jobbed and I'm kind of upset about it but I don't feel near as bad as Eliot Spitzer must feel right now.
Spitzer, Governor of New York, today was exposed (no pun intended) as having been caught up in a prostitution ring investigation. OOPS! MSN Headline - "Spitzer’s political career teetered on the brink of collapse Monday after the corruption-fighting politician once known as “Mr. Clean” was accused of paying for sex with a high-priced call girl." The 48-year-old father of three daughters, (and wife Silda who stood behind him at his "geeze I'm so sorry press conference") paid $4300 for about two and a half hours with a call girl sent out to meet Emperors Club VIP "Client 9" in a Washington D.C. Hotel.
"Prior to becoming governor, Spitzer spent eight years as Attorney General in New York. "His cases as attorney general included criminal prosecutions of prostitution rings and tourism involving prostitutes. In 2004, he was part of an investigation of an escort service in New York City that resulted in the arrests of 18 people on charges of promoting prostitution and related charges." and another one gone and another one gone, another one bites the dust....
Democratic Assemblyman John McEneny said: “I don’t think anyone remembers anything like this. The fact that the governor has a reputation as a reformer and there is a certain assumption as attorney general that you’re Caesar’s wife. It’s a different element than if you were an accountant.” Bigtime OOPS! (BTW I've never heard the term Caesar's wife used before, that's a good one.)
I also learned about the Mann Act of 1910, otherwise known as the White-Slave Traffic Act, which outlawed travel across state lines for prostitution. Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson was the first person convicted under this law and actor Sir Charles "Charlie" Chaplin's career was tarnished after he was prosecuted and later aquitted of violating the act. Other notables listed in Wikipedia of being prosecuted under the act include Chuck Berry, Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles Manson....Spitzer likely won't be prosecuted for that one but the people running the ring have been. Maybe Spitzer was secretly running his own undercover sting operation.....
In other New York news, it's being reported that negotiations are underway for the final game in Yankee Stadium....and it won't be baseball! The New York Daily News is reporting that the New York Rangers are negotiating to play an outdoor hockey game in the House that Ruth built.... 3月6日 A lazy blogger...Well I have received several comments concerning the fact that I haven't written anything, changed my music or added new photos in awhile. Guilty as charged! Working, getting outside since the weather is nicer and just doing other things lately. I have a very small following but you folks are loyal so I'll try and pick it up a little. Put some different songs up today but none of them are new, in fact they're some oldies but some different sides of my personality and tastes. Now if I can just think of something interesting to write about..... 3月3日 A Crappy Monday.... Okay it wasn't a dead body but it was still pretty nasty. I have today off since I worked over the weekend and was busy working on my tax return (oh joy) on a rainy Monday (double joy) while doing laundry and cleaning house. While the washing machine was on I walked into the bathroom and noticed that the toilet was beginning to overflow. The sewer was backing up into my bathroom. This happened once before when I was gone and it was a horrible surprise when I returned home to find my bathroom filled with sewage. Several hours of snaking drain pipes did virtually nothing and I paid a plumber to run a bigger, professional snake and saw down the pipe. Then he ran a camera down the pipe to show nothing was blocking it. Of course it cost me several hundred dollars to find out that nothing was blocking the pipe that time. So today I removed the toilet and snaked out the drain, poured liquid plumber down the pipe. Crawled under the house several times and removed cleanout valve and snaked it too. Poured buckets of water down the pipe and everything seemed to be fine but of course once I had the toilet back in place and turned on the sink and the shower at the same time, it started backing up again. By then it's after 5pm so I'm looking at emergency after hours rates when I think the basic rates start around $90 for a house call. Another great thing about scheduling a plumber is that while they're not as bad as the cable guy, you're never sure how long you'll have to wait for them. Oh happy day! 3月1日 A Nasty Discovery...Hey, I know....it's been a long time since I've written anything. Been working a lot lately and also trying to plan a big vacation in the near future. Nothing really that interesting to write about. Until tonight....My friend Ron, the friend with possibly the smallest house on Lake Washington called me up yesterday to tell me he had just helped pull a dead body out of the water near his neighbor's dock. Actually, the neighbor noticed the body and Ron went out in a rotton old rowboat and pushed the body into the dock with his boat, using a metal rake because he couldn't find the oars. I didn't even know that the boat would float and it weighs a ton, I don't know how he got it in the water.
Here's an article with a photo of the area: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/16132577.html
Ron's house is the little tiny one to the right of the big house with the red roof. Turns out the body was identified as a 40 year old male who was missing since December 27th. He's been in the water for awhile. Same water I did my polar bear swim in. Glad I didn't run into him then. Another interesting fact about Ron. He was one of the people who was seriously injured in the bombing incident at the Atlanta Olympic games....He's long since healed from that but yesterday was something else. 2月6日 Sightings: Discovery Park Coyote....Seniors Speeding in Ballard.Couple of amusing sights and of course I don't have my camera with me. Last night coming home from work about 11:30pm I finally had my first Discovery Park Coyote sighting. He wasn't in the park though, about a mile and a half away actually. Saw him crossing the bridge at W. Emerson and Gilman from Magnolia into Interbay. He must have come down the railroad tracks but he was pretty bold jogging down the street through a mini mart/gas station parking lot, a bank parking lot and finally after taling him awhile I lost him somewhere in Fisherman's Terminal. He could have jumped in the bushes and hit but he just kept trottering along. Bolder than I thought he'd be.
The other unusual sight was watching a motorcycle cop pull over a little old lady who had to be in her 80's for speeding in Ballard. They have a regular speed trap on 15th just before market. They wait on a side street just before Schuck's and sometimes they're three motorcycles deep. Usually they're earlier in the day and of course the bikes are never there in inclement weather. They sit there and nail the people coming across the Ballard Bridge. By the time you spot them they've already nailed you. Fortunately one was crossing the bridge going south as I was going north so I knew there'd be others and slowed down. I watched the cop pull the little grannie over and walk up to her window and show her the actual readout on the radar gun. Of course she stopped in the right turn lane and everyone had to stop and look at the scene so it created a mini traffic jam. Year of the Rat....Happy Chinese New Year!Happy New Year to all my friends in China! Hope the year of the rat is a great one for you. 1月31日 Flanagan's Precept....Went to a show at Showbox SODO last night with several bands playing. A buddy had a couple tickets because his friend was lead guitar for a band called "Flanagan's Precept." I couldn't figure the band's name out. Somebody explained to me that it's an addendum to "Murphy's Law." Murphy's Law basically states that if anything can go wrong, it will. Flanagan's Precept states that Murphy was an optimist.
The name seemed kind of appropriate as the lead guitarist broke a string just at the point their set was really clicking along. It took the other guys a good 5-10 minutes to figure out they should just start jamming while he was repairing his guitar instead of just standing around. All in all, they were very good though, especially considering it was the band's first-ever show together. The guitarist kicked some butt and the lead singer warmed up after a couple songs and he could really scream. Drummer sped things up a little too much on a couple of songs but overall they were pretty tight. Did a couple of covers by Filter and Incubus, (according to my friend) I wouldn't know, I'm not the music buff but most songs were original. I'd say worth checking out if you get the chance. There was some weird cat telling us that he was some sort of producer/talent scout checking them out for a possible contract but then he'd say "oh, I can't really talk about it." Then he'd keep talking about even though we never asked about it. 1月28日 Discovery Park's Coyote Wanted Dead Or Alive?The Seattle Times has run another article on the still to be determined fate of the now famous Discovery Park coyote. I've yet to see the thing on my frequent walks through the park. Apparently he's nabbed a pet cat and chased a small dog but dogs are supposed to be on a leash so I don't have a lot of sympathy for that one. I often see owners with dogs off leash running around the tide flats chasing birds. I love dogs but they're not allowed on city beaches period. I suspect the coyote is in Discovery for one reason. An abundant supply of food, mainly pet rabbits that people dump in the park when they get tired of them. They seem to think dumping a tame animal in the wild is a humane thing to do. Guess what happens? If they survive, they chew up the vegetation causing erosion and destroy the park while breeding like.....well breeding like rabbits. They don't have much in the way of natural predators there so of course any coyote with half a brain is going to make his way to the park. I've never seen the coyote but I see rabbits everywhere.
The Navy has set out traps and talked of assigning a sharpshooter to take out the coyote because he's making people nervous. While they're at it maybe they should shoot all the rabbits and the dogs running loose on the beach....they're more of a nuisence than the coyote. Of course that will never happen....
Here's a link to the Times' article: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004149685_webcoyote28m.html |
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