Greetings from Snohomish

Another quickie after a great day in Snohomish, where we drove late in the morning and met Chris. We went to First and Union Kitchen for brunch (they have exceptional eggs benedict and rosemary skillet potatoes) and walked through town for a bit. Then we drove to Swans Trail Farms, which was having a Baby Animals and Berries Festival, meaning that we got to see (and in several cases hold and pet) lambs, kids, foals, piglets, bunnies, kittens, puppies, chicks, and ducklings. We also got to drink strawberry lemonade and strawberry cold brew and eat strawberry shortcake before heading out to the fields to pick strawberries to take home.

 

I followed baseball mostly long-distance -- the Mariners' 9-0 victory over the Marlins, the Orioles' 5-1 loss to the Astros, the Nationals' heartbreaking 8-7 collapse against the Rockies in a game that ended on a pitch clock violation resulting in a bases-loaded walk. When we got home, Cheryl and I watched the Doctor Who season finale together, which was about as anticlimactic as this entire season has felt to me; I like Ncuti Gatwa but I feel like I know nothing about this Doctor except that he cries more than the previous five Doctors combined, and as much as I appreciate having so many older women front and center, their storylines felt unfocused.