A Steller Jay dropped by yesterday just outside the kitchen window. These bird are beautiful and brazen and there's some kind of a turf war in our yard now and then between the jays and magpies.
My OLÉ one time class at the Anchorage Escape Room near G and 5th Avenue, was a lot of fun. There were about ten of us on this hour long adventure to escape. And it took all of us to figure out the clues to open pad locks that got us more clues to get us to the final room and out the last door. There were some cool surprises. I don't want to say more. Here we are gathering in the downstair office. The room with the Tree Door is a new escape adventure that isn't completed yet. They want to make it perfect. We went into the door on the left.
I was pleased that the weather was warm enough and dry enough I didn't have to think about ice and could ride downtown for the escape room.
On the way home I passed a large homeless camp in the woods to the east of Valley of the Moon Park. I'd guess there were 15 to 20 tents. I didn't see anyone so could do an impromptu extra-credit for my Homelessness class. Last Friday's was full of the kind of data I was looking for. Dr. Richard Mandsager was the speaker and he had lots of data about the different causes of homelessness, how many in the different categories in Anchorage, and looked at the larger environmental factors that push people into the streets. I hope I can get more into that here one of these days.
The sign says, "Camp Here - Occupy to Overcome." (I'm having trouble with iPhoto. It's not saving the edits when I crop photos. And Apple would rather we move 'up' to their newer software, Photo, and hook us into paying monthly fees for iCloud. No wonder no one has any money.)
Excellent post Steve! Thank you, shared.
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