Monday, June 21, 2021
Another morning, another triumphant walk in the neighborhood.
Here are some of the things we saw on Camano Island on our trek . . .
A Camano Island home just has
to have plenty of parking space
for the watercraft
Who sat on this tree?
The Olympic Mountains far across
the Puget Sound
This property has an intriguing
bed of flowers in the front yard
Camano Island is heavily wooded
In the early afternoon, Mark, Susie and I headed back to the Johnson family compound in Seattle.
I needed to get to the University Bookstore before they closed to buy as much UW Husky related gear as humanly possible.
The Seattle economy rests much better tonight because of me.
At 5:00 p.m., I had to hotfoot it to Softball Field #5 at Seattle's Woodland Park to watch an all-star game that featured young Ella Kadletz who is the granddaughter of my UW roommate Jon Kadletz and his wife Lee.
With Jon and Lee on a HOT
June afternoon in Seattle
Ella, #5 in white, on first base
ready to run!
It was a fast pitch softball battle between two squads of 8-9 year olds where hits were rare but walks and fielding errors were not.
I left after two full innings that lasted about an hour and 15 minutes with the score probably tied at something like 19-19 with only one hit between the two clubs.
It was fun seeing all of the Kadletz family including Jon and Lee's son Ryan, his wife Sara and their daughters Ella and Emma.
A Husky fan's home, no doubt,
across from Woodland Park
My final stop of the day was at the nearby high school where I did my student teaching back in the Fall of 1969.
Home of the Lynx
The main entryway to Lincoln H.S.
Founded in 1907, L.H.S. closed its doors in 1981 and then re-opened again in 2019.
During its 38 years hiatus as a high school, this venerable building was used for a wide variety of community related projects.
The Seattle Public School District started rebuilding and/or refurbishing their old schools on at a time while L.H.S. was closed. Their master plan was to have the student body of each school be housed at the old L.H.S. site while their schools were under reconstruction.
Good move, I think.
Our old P.E. flag football field
No, it was not a parking lot then, but it was an asphalt football field complete with permanent painted lines.
Besides the inherent danger issues of crashing on the asphalt, at the far end of these fields a chain link fence was about a foot behind the field's end line to crash into.
But that's not all . . .
This end zone was even more
of interest to the safety conscious
among us
In my day, those posts were not there and that tall black fence was only about a three or four feet tall barrier located again, about a foot behind the end line of the football field.
That small barrier would occasionally catch a receiver going deep for a pass in the hips and flip him into the window well of the school cafeteria found in the basement of the only building at L.H.S. other than the gym.
Fond memories to be sure
I want to again thank Mark and Susie Johnson for their amazing hospitality the past few days.
Tomorrow, I will start the drive south back to Camarillo at Zero Dark Thirty to beat the heat and, hopefully, the traffic between Seattle and Salem, Oregon that was so horrendous on the drive north last Friday.
Stay tuned . . .
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