Monday, September 27, 2021

Brendan Hunt

 


Leigh Ann's college buddy Brendan Hunt in the red outfit below.  The photo is after the British show Ted Lasso won numerous Emmy Awards. Brendan plays the Assistant Coach Beard and is also a writer and producer of the Ted Lasso show.



Click for a funny interview on the Jimmy Kimmel show.

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Here's our story: I was a super-senior at ISU (remember that I did a 5th year?) and totally cool. He was a lowly freshman. He decided to pursue backstage as well as onstage so took technical drawing his freshman year. He and I spent many late nights post midnight drafting together to get our projects done. He's freaking hilarious and made me laugh constantly. Nothing like his character on the show, but it peeps out on frequent occasion. You would enjoy the show. The fact that your daughter is personal friends with Coach Beard automatically ups your cool factor x 10.









Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Pacific Northwest August 2021

  


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 Our Daughger

Leavenworth, Washington is a nice tourist town. It initally developed as a mining and timber community. When those industries played out, the town went into a long decline. They decided to make the town look like a German Bavarian town, similar to Oberammergau. I have spent a good deal of time in Oberammergau and they have succeeded in making this town look similar. The town is now very successful. Photos below.

The mountains around the town do make it look like Bavaria. But the success of the town was urban redevelopment. Nicely done.

We met some German from Bavaria who have been working in Portland and unable to go home during Covid. So they came here, and said that it did in fact remind them of home. They thought it was authentic looking. References at the end of this post explain how they did it.

The smoke from the wildfires has made the air quality unpleasant and it has been very hot.  Cooling off now.




















All our Washington 2021 Photos


References:
  1. History | Leavenworth Washington

    leavenworth.org › history

    HISTORY LEARN THE HISTORY OF LEAVENWORTH WASHINGTON The History of Leavenworth Believe it or not, we were not always a Bavarian style village. Instead, the towering mountain peaks and bountiful land was known amongst Native

  2. History of Leavenworth, WA - Accidental Bavarian

    www.accidentalbavarian.com › History

    With the completion of JJ Hill's Great Northern Railway in 1893, Leavenworth, as Icicle Flats was now known, began to come into its own as a northwest frontier town. Platted in the same year by Captain Charles F. Leavenworth, the town became a powerful timber center. The Lamb-Davis Sawmill was one of the largest in 

  3. the country.


Some photos from Travels With Trisha 
Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany

Close-up of a green-shuttered window in the German town of Oberammergau. A religious scene, complete with a crucifix, is also painted on the front of the building.
Detail of the Hotel Alte Post.
A mountain peak towers over a white, chalet-style home in Oberammergau, Germany.
Mount Kofel towers above a fresco-adorned home on Ettalerstrasse.
Detail of a home in Oberammergau, Germany: Red and pink flowers fill a flowerbox, alongside a religious mural.





 












Fashion Plates at the Seattle Airport, leaving Florida heat.  And freezing to death.



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