1. If you eat a piece of raw kelp that washes ashore, you will not get sick. Don't let the bad smell defer you from eating because it tastes like salty celery.
2. Walking around is one of the best ways to learn a city's layout. I know Tacoma pretty well from my extensive times spent wandering around.
3. I feel safest when I am by myself in areas of Tacoma with large large percentages of homeless people. I spend my days with them and feel more comfortable than with strangers.
4. Stamps are expensive. Enough said.
5. I honestly didn't realize how much I drove my car until I got here. No one in my house has a car in Tacoma and it's a rarity that we have access to one.
6. There are 150 variations of solitaire. Of of the guests at Nativity House knows more than half of them too.
7. Receiving mail (not bills) is something I have come to love.
8. To thaw frozen foods (specifically meat) you have to leave it running in cold water. I learned that when I had to take my "Food Worker" test so I am certified to handle large-scale cooking.
9. I know almost nothing about gardening except for reaping the harvest.
10. Seeing Mt. Rainier on a clear day is something that never gets old.
1. - ew. but true, figured that out when I was 3...
ReplyDelete9. - these two sites are responsible for my initial domestication last year, but produced a pretty awesome garden so it worked out.
http://www.gardenguides.com/
http://www.garden.org/
glad to hear you're enjoying the north!