Greetings from Bellevue

We stayed home Sunday morning and did chores so we would be all rested and ready for the Ravens game at noon! We had our shirts and our hats and our snacks, so everything went great until the game actually started and the Ravens started losing to the Chiefs (apparently the league reaaalllly wants Mahomes and Kelce in the Super Bowl, not to mention Taylor Swift, so they sent the one league official under whom the home team's win rate drops from 56% to 40%). 

We left the house before the game ended -- of course, right when it started to rain -- and went to the Bellevue Botanical Garden to see whether anything was in bloom. There was lots of witch hazel, quite a few hellebores, some snowdrops, some aconite, a couple of crocuses, and a few other flowers, but the real delight was hearing Pacific Northwest tree frogs singing to each other through the woods! We also stopped at Kelsey Creek Farm to see some animals. 

 

We stopped at Safeway on the way home looking for a couple of things we forgot on Saturday, then we came home for most of the Detroit-San Francisco game, which also did not end the way I wanted though the Lions were leading for most of the game. Now we're watching fifth season White Collar after this week's The Way Home, where we may finally be getting to the Jacob story...and thank goodness, because I am really, really sick of the Elliot-wanting-Kat-to-love-him story!