{"id":1679,"date":"2022-12-23T13:16:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T21:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2022-12-24T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T05:16:07","slug":"1679","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well, it was another year mostly spent close to home.\u00a0 We did see a couple of milestones though.<\/p>\n

We’ve bought an electric car!\u00a0 It’s a Hyundai Kona SE.\u00a0 It’s efficient and fun to drive, and we’ve already outfitted it to carry our bicycles and we hope to train it to carry a kayak as well.\u00a0 We’re still waiting for our condo association to get our charging station wired up, but, on the other hand, after a month and a half, we still haven’t needed to plug our car in.\u00a0 Sadly, this acquisition meant parting with our 13-year-old Escape hybrid.\u00a0 The Snowball Diaries<\/a>, which began with our move to Mexico in 2009, have seen their final entry.<\/p>\n

Last year we reported on the purchase of Alex’s e-bike.\u00a0 This year brought a new bicycle for Scott, as the old one threatened to fail catastrophically<\/a>.\u00a0 The new bike promises to be a little more versatile, with fatter tires to handle woodsier parts of the state’s trail system.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Another new thing is the weather.\u00a0 Used to be, western Washington seemed practically immune from forest fires.\u00a0 We would sometimes get smoke from across the mountains or from British Columbia, but only if the wind blew just wrong.\u00a0 With hotter and drier summers, Washingtonians are now producing our own smoke.\u00a0 I made the mistake this year of bragging about how we’d been spared, and then October kept us indoors most of the time.\u00a0 There was one day when Seattle had the worst air quality of all the world’s major cities.\u00a0 Then the smoke was followed by weather that was both cooler and wetter than usual, again casting a pall over outdoor activities.<\/p>\n

Still, there were plenty of times during the year when we ventured into the real world. Some earlier forays include an exploration of one of our neighborhood thoroughfares — Broad Street<\/a> — and an introduction to some local wildlife — Our Crows<\/a>.\u00a0 Here’s some holiday cheer from Westlake Park:<\/p>\n

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Well, it was another year mostly spent close to home.\u00a0 We did see a couple of milestones though. We’ve bought an electric car!\u00a0 It’s a Hyundai Kona SE.\u00a0 It’s efficient and fun to drive, and we’ve already outfitted it to carry our bicycles and we hope to train it to carry a kayak as well.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}