A Pair of Trebuchets

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I think the people at Hunters Farm do a pumpkin toss each fall using the two trebuchet’s above. I think it would be fun to witness a pumpkin toss in person  using this medieval device. The atomic bomb of the Middle Ages. There are a few sites online devoted to sharing plans on how to build one and kits for sale.

Mood on the River

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A section of blue sky reflected in the river. The mood along the river seemed to change suddenly.  A partially cloudy morning turned into a steel-gray morning with the wind causing ripples on a calm river. Despite a few garbage cans close by  trash seems to accumulate. To me the cement blocks are more of a reminder of an earlier time when pollution of every sort could be found in and around the Duwamish River.

Duwamish Waterway Park

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The Duwamish River was one of the first EPA designated Superfund sites, in the early 1970’s. The river doesn’t seem as polluted as it once was, but I am not sure just how or if those ‘funds’ were used. In the 1960’s and 1970’s many of the bottom fish like flounders had odd growths on their bodies and were hard to look at let alone consider to be edible. For a short time in my childhood we lived just south of the 14th Street Bridge, about a blocks distance from the river. I remember playing on the river bank and fishing with a tree limb and string. Across the river was Boeing’s Plant 2, one of the many causes of the pollution of the river. A very odd mix of residential, commercial and industrial shared usage.