Tis the Season


I didn’t think people around here ever cancelled anything due to rain, but it seems the Christmas lights

boat parade didn’t have many participants this year. Perhaps it was a very fast parade and we missed it, but by the time we were in the viewing area we saw a few boats in their slips with Christmas lights, and

one well-lit boat cruising by.

We still enjoyed the night of Fire and Ice at the Tacoma Museum of Glass (https://www.museumofglass.org/). I didn’t realize that the giant conical shaped building in downtown Tacoma, that reminded me a bit of the shuttlecocks at the Kansas City art museum, is so functional. It’s the hot room for the glass furnaces. We were able to sit for a while and observe the artists at work.





We also visited America’s Car Museum (https://www.americascarmuseum.org/). Mr. Lemay has an impressive and diverse collection, but I’m pretty sure I was seeing a subtle preference towards Fords. It certainly had more Ford GTs than I had ever seen in one place. I tried snapping pics of the boys with cars, but I think that felt way too Instagrammy for them to be fully cooperative.  







On another night of heavy rain, the carolers were
out in neighborhood in full force, completely undeterred by weather that was enough to keep anyone inside. The crew was largely instrumental, with trumpets, clarinets, a sax and a solid percussion line. They also dressed the part. There are about 80 houses in our string of beach dwellings, and they went by them all, starting at 103 on South Beach and making it down to the beginning of North Beach, as far as I know anyway. I threw in the towel after the first few houses. 






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