Hey, guys! for th' last couple o' days my vision has been clearing, and while I have this chance t' see I'd like to write one of many blogs I've been wanting to post: what it's like here in my new surroundings! Let's do this!
It's rarely sunny (Gray's Harbor refers to the color of the cloud cover that's nearly constant here), and the temps have been averaging during the winters at no more than the low fifties in the day, and no lower than the high twenties at night. The nearby ocean (four miles away) is a thermal moderator for the area. All of the critters around here, be they pet or otherwise, have thick fur. In many parts of town (sometimes even at my house), you can smell the ocean air. And there are many sea birds in the area. Just out of town, dear and bear aren't unusual. The nearby major towns are Aberdeen, Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle. There are rivers all over here, with many lift or draw bridges. And different types of wood mills (stick mills, chip mills, pulp mills, etc) support the local area - every workday at noon, a lunch whistle can be heard across the entire city. A lumberjack town, to be sure.
The house I'm living in (and my roomie & I are thinking of buying together) was built about one hundred ten years ago, is two story with an attic, but with no cellar or elevated garage. The walls and floors are all built with REAL two by fours (not like what you get today), with one inch thick ship lapping making a skin on both sides. It weighs a ton, and last season withstood SEVERE winds of near one hundred miles an hour! I occupy the entire upstairs, which is three bedrooms and a fiar sized music room which I'm setting up.
After a few weeks of being here, I've come away with a theme: GREEN! Everywhere you look, it's green. Green stuff growing b'tween the neighbors' shingles, green stuff in every crack or irregularity in the sidewalk, green stuff on the painted surfaces of houses, trucks, cars, EVERYWHERE! Unlike the overcrowded desert I just left, this place gets water, and with water comes life! The population density of the area I just left is around two thousand seven hundred people per square mile. Here; more like under one thousand. I miss my folks, but this is nice. Really nice.
Hope you enjoyed this lil glimpse! I openly admit my ignorance; I still don't know how to embed things into blogs! I'll try to get pictures up later to show all of you, somehow...
John
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