Sunday was another beautiful day and I got to spend almost all of it outdoors. We ate an early brunch, then went to Kelsey Creek Park in Bellevue, which is ten minutes from our apartment and has hiking trails along a stream where salmon spawn in the autumn. The main attraction at this time of year is the park's farm, on the land and in the barns that used to belong to the Twin Valley Dairy, where there are now sheep, goats, cows, horses, pigs, chickens, ducks, bees, and bunnies, including adolescent chicks still under a heat lamp. There's also a historic log cabin built in 1888 where kids can practice crafts like carding and spinning and see how people lived there over 100 years ago.
We stopped at Safeway on the way back from the park to pick up barbecue essentials like burgers, macaroni salad, fruit, and wine, then we came home, did some cleanup, and waited for our kids who arrived with their girlfriends in the early evening. We chatted online with my parents -- it was my father's birthday -- and showed them the dock while eagles swooped over us, then we grilled burgers and s'mores on the public grills in our apartment complex since Daniel's girlfriend is too allergic to our cats to eat here. We just finished the finale of The Night Agent (not very realistic) and now we're watching the Succession series finale (I'm still nominally Team Shiv).
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