Dizzly

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Stats nerd. Bad graph and bad pun appreciator. Professor teaching healthcare students to love research. Ed/psyc/health/SoTL research, diversity, sci-fi/fantasy, gaming, cooking, and nature. Views published here do not represent the views of my employer.

A large tan friendly goat who was very interested in getting their scritches
Cardboard bingo card with red transparent sliding number covers
A moderate sized transparent Mediterranean Gecko looks at us warily from the bricks on our front porch
The menu for the Camp Allen Tiki Lounge Tropical Sips Raspberry Dragon Fruit Limeade Mocktail A refreshing blend of raspberry, dragon fruit, and lime. White Wine available for guests who would like to add it to their mocktail. Polynesian Mai Tai Rum Punch A tropical rum-based punch with island-inspired flavors. Island Bites Warm Salted Edamame Sushi Rice Hand Rolls Choice of spicy tuna or spicy crab, served with seaweed salad, wasabi, pickled ginger, eel sauce, and spicy mayo. Fresh Summer Rolls Rice paper rolls filled with noodles, vegetables, lettuce, shrimp, pork, cilantro, and Thai basil, served with peanut dipping sauce. Build-Your-Own Ramen Bowl Rich broth with noodles, smoked pork, shiitake mushrooms, green onions, sweet corn, and bok choy. Pork & Chicken Lemon Grass Pot Stickers Served with ponzu dipping sauce. Bulgogi Beef Bao Buns Topped with Asian slaw and avocado-lime butter.
A fluffy, dark blue finger knitted rectangle, which eventually became a pillow
Tex Mex Salad Bar Mixed Greens- Vegan Mixed Grains - V, SF, DF Grilled Chicken -SF, DF, GF Beef - SF, DF, GF Black Beans- DF, GF, SF, V Roasted Sweet Potatoes- V, GF, SF Grilled Corn- SF, V, GF Grilled Bell Peppers & Onions-V, GF, SF, DF Queso - V, GF, SF Pico/ Guacamole/ Homemade Salsa House Fried Tortilla Chips - Vegan, GF Condiments Soup of the Day: Roasted Bell Pepper Bisque w/Chipotle - Vegan, GF, SF V: Vegetarian Dessert: Tres Leches Cake GF: Gluter Free DF: Dairy Free SF: Soy Free Vegetarian option on request
The adventure course
A tan goat with a white middle stands on top of a woman in a blue exercise top on a yoga mat. The woman is trying to get a goat selfie.
A green tray holding a plate with a pancake, bacon, sausage, and breakfast potatoes, and a cup of syrup for dipping
Breakfast Menu Pancakes/French Toast Sticks - V, SF Scrambled Eggs - 1, GF, DF Apple wood Smoked Picon - GF, DF, SF Sausage Links SF, DF, GF Potato Wedges - Vegan, GF, DF Oatmeal / Grits - Vegan, GF, SF Salsa - Vegan, GF, SF Fresh Cut Fruit - Vegan, GF, SF Assorted Yogurts - V, GF, SF Whole Fruit - Vegan, GF, SF, DF Assorted Breakfast Cereals V: Vegetarian GF: Gluten Free DF: Dairy Free SF: Soy Free
Top of a cappuccino decorated with a flower
A white tailed deer fawn
A northern mockingbird sings atop a bell tower
View of the back of the main building, with a covered patio, a grassy lawn, and a park bench
Yuzu and raspberry malasadas and passion fruit key lime tarts
A slice of wood from the camp grounds, string with a rainbow-colored leaf vine, with smaller wood trinkets shaped like leaves, a bee, and a ladybug
Three trees (oak?) grow curved towards each other over a path
A quilt square from the collection of church quilts at Camp Allen. The square reads “Palmer Memorial Houston, Texas” and depicts the Main St. entrance to the church, where I happen to have been married.
Bad photo of the Camp Allen sign
The new tortilla factory at Buc-ee’s, where you get clean bathrooms, snacks, clothes, and stuff with beavers on.
Brownish leaves on a newly-grown branch on the mango tree
A small greenish-brown anole looks at me suspiciously as it rests on a green garden support pole amidst the overgrown cucumbers
A greenish melon with netting. Possibly a Hami melon.
A basket half-full of somewhat ugly end-of-season cucumbers. Not pictured, the basketfull of yellow, overripe cucumbers that formed while we were on vacation. Those went to the composter.
A small brown dog with a greying muzzle eats pink salmon that’s mixed into her dog food
Killer Shoe by Harold Siefert An art piece in the airport designed to look like a cross between a crocodile and a green high-heeled shoe
Truffle bars include: apple cider donuts, cabin s’mores, café latte crunch, cherry bomb, coconut island, forbidden fruits, funnel cake, hungry blackberry, lemon twister, maple bourbon, matinee malt balls, Mexican hot chocolate, Pike Place espresso, rainier cherry, sip! sip! hooray, salted toffee crackle, and virgin dirty shirley
Bars include Himalayan salt + toffee, mango plantain, Alaskan smoked sea salt, Boharat spice, orange blossom espresso, and Peruvian dark with cacao nibs
Jams include: black currant, tayberry, loganberry, and golden raspberry from Woodring at Pike Place Market, orange & rosemary and nasturtium jellies from Butchart Gardens, and spruce tip jelly, wild salmonberry jam, and mooseberry jam from different ports in Alaska
Pastas include: garlic parsley fettuccine, roasted garlic fettuccine, lemon garlic linguine, lemon pepper pappardelle, and artichoke lemon tagliatelle
Items on the counter include: five half-pound bags of fettuccine of various flavors, a half-pound bag of smoked bacon mafaldine pasta, a container of wild fireweed gummi bears, a can of citrus spruce tip soda and a can of wild blueberry cream soda, 17 Maeve truffle chocolate bars, 6 small jcoco chocolate bars, a Chugach mini dark chocolate bar variety pack (prince william sound sea salt, kelp @ cayenne, potato chip, birch toffee, espresso beans, pink Himalayan salt), a bag of maple taffy, a mixed bag of Maeve bonbons, two Cherry Ripe bars, bag of spruce tip shortbread cookies, a Pike Place tin of Bite Society cookies (benne wafer, open sesame, orange fennel, chocolate chipotle), 9 small jams, 2 small syrups (birch, spruce tip), Alaskan Fudge (maple pecan, espresso dark chocolate, rum walnut), and a pouch of wild Alaskan salmon for dogs
The much-photographed red sign reading “ Public Market Center”
The model of the Space Needle in Lego
Looking up at the Space Needle from below
Steak and eggs without the eggs, but with tomato, mushroom, and hash
Water wheel
Pink and white tuberous begonia
Floral planting on a trash can
The star fountain, with frogs, where the original garden owner kept his prize ducks
Stairs down into the Japanese garden
Entrance to the rose garden from the sunken garden
Snail fountain on the way to the sunken garden
The Welcome to Victoria Canada building
Panoramic photo from our balcony as we pull into Victoria
The Sunday floor plate in the elevator
Breakfast included coffee, congee, bacon with maple syrup dip, and avocado toast with shredded crab.
A mudslide is raised from a deck chair in the adults-only area at the front of the ship
Death at the claw machine
A guava watermelon soda
We were here on the map
Saturday floor plate in the elevator
Seven stuffed toy sardines on my son’s pillow, along with the stuffed armadillo he brought from home
A lemoncello drink (forgot the name of it)
The business card for our guide, Juliana, and the business she works for
A view of a mossy fir forest
Several brown and black sea lions sleep on a red and green buoy, which also contains a clanking bell
Several orcas surfacing and folks on the whale watching boat comment
A male and a female orca surfacing. You can see the tall dorsal fin of the male, the smaller curved fin of the female, and the mist from their blow
Market basket breakfast bowl - two scrambled eggs over seasoned mushrooms, zucchini, peppers, and potatoes with goat cheese and mozzarella cheese
Close up view of the glacier, with blue ice and many cracks