No travel days recently. We’re just hanging out with the grandkids and thier parents. We had a nice breakfast picnic on Sunday. We got gluten-free waffles at People’s Waffles and ate at Riverfront Park. The carousel is nice, but we made our way to the Garbage Goat. No, really. They have a mechanised, vacuum powered trash eater in the park.

We met a man playing a handpan. He was kind enough to explain the instrument and play some for us. It looks like an inverted steel drum but has a similar sound.

The kids played on the red wagon slide. I’ve ordered one for our house. No, just kidding! But I do have ideas for a slide that wife and contactor are both trying to talk me out of. Mal sehen as they say in Deutschland.

So, all in all a mellow four days in Spokane. The M’s won twice. Got good food from Nudo and Kuni’s. (Still not eating in restaurants.) The weather is great, only a tiny bit smokey. Tomorrow we’re off to Boise.

If the adjective form of metal is metallic, what’s the equivalent for iron? Oh… how… ironic.