Seattle goings on
Today’s the day I go back to work. This is excellent news for the wallet. The last two months have been extremely hard on the bank account. It was an unfortunate coincidence that my last project wrapped just as I started to write checks for the new home. Naturally, I’m delighted to return to an …
We still don’t have a usable kitchen, that explains it, okay? Bakery Nouveau: The Best Treats, uncontested. They totally need to fix the interior though, it’s just wrong. Sugar Rush: Okay, it’s cozy in there and the coffee is good, but the treats we tried left us totally nonplussed. Capers: This is an oddball place, …
So you think you wanna be an expat, eh? There’s a good conversation about the bloom coming off the rose of expat life over at Lost in Transit. Folks who haven’t been expats may gain insight, folks who have may have something to offer. And I have a new post there about our move. [tags]Lost …
Cafe Rozella. Okay, not exactly our hood, but we had to run to White Center anyway. They have rather nice tea at Rozella, the coffee is good, and it’s next to a tool rental shop. Fun-kay. We like fun-kay. Lincoln Park. In this morning’s warm rain, we wandered our very walkable new ‘hood. There’s a …
As we try to settle in to our new house, we find ourselves oddly short of things we didn’t know we needed. We got rid of our microwave when we remodeled our kitchen in the ex-house. We had ceiling lamps and did not need floor lamps. We did not have room for a full size …
Here‘s a handful of pictures of what’s underneath 60 plus years of paint and trim.