![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 9.jpeg]] Back home! In a taxi back to the house. ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 1.jpeg]] Just back from our [[July Vacaya Alaska Cruise]], I decided to break open my **Starry Night** Lego set. ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 2.jpeg]] ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 3.jpeg]] ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 4.jpeg]] ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 5.jpeg]] ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 6.jpeg]] ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 7.jpeg]] ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 8.jpeg]] I worked on it a bag or two at a time and ended up with an awesome finished product! ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 20.jpeg]] ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 10.jpeg]] Good news - didn't catch Covid-19 on the cruise! ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 11.jpeg]] Nico, Doug and I visiting Marilyn during his visit after our cruise. ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 12.jpeg]] Doug made this delicious **Lobster Risotto** while he test drives some recipes for potentially making at Thanksgiving. This one is a bit too labor intensive for the big meal, but a nice fancy option when we don't have a bunch of other dishes to make simultaneously. ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 13.jpeg]] A li'l lizard buddy climbing on our window screens. ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 14.jpeg]] Strong graphics on the wall of a local coffee place, **Hot Lips Coffee**! ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 15.jpeg]] "Watching" some sports at the Casino. ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 21.jpeg]] Lovely sunrises over the back yard. ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 22.jpeg]] Look at this big chonka visiting outside my office window! ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 23.jpeg]] ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 24.jpeg]] Hiyeeeeee ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 25.jpeg]] Things cooled off and got humid for a week, with a few thunderstorms rolling through. ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 26.jpeg]] We got gym memberships again -- my inaugural quick session. ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 27.jpeg]] On the darkest day, the wind really howled through -- dropping all sorts of debris and raining hard enough to have some flash flooding not far from our neighborhood. ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 28.jpeg]] Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of my favorite movie, **Clue**! Got a small crew together (Stegar, Doug, Cheryl, and Jay) to go and watch it on the big screen. ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 29.jpeg]] ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 30.jpeg]] Lingering clouds. ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 31.jpeg]] Look at this heron I saw when walking to go get our mail -- so pretty! ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 32.jpeg]] Made some delicious brownies -- plussed them up with some chocolate chips scattered on top, and a bit of sea salt on top. Delicious! ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 19.jpeg]] Our security system started complaining, so another August project -- prying open and replacing the batteries in all of our security system sensors! ![[2025-08_Random-Adventures - 33.jpeg]] All-in-all, a relaxed month at home. Now *onward* to September!