Seattle goings on
Won’t you be my neighbor? I’m really sad. See, my neighbors are moving out. One of them left yesterday and the other one moves in a week or so. I live upstairs in a subdivided 1914 house and they’ve been living on the first floor. They have been the Best Neighbors Ever and I’m really …
We’ve got a critter who arrives every day at 4am to eat my house. I’m pretty sure we didn’t approve the move in, but he shows up anyway and starts at it, first scrambling across the roof, then making his way through the walls, then setting to it somewhere around the upper southwest corner of …
Thank you for your letter about the Bigleaf maple recently removed from Volunteer Park. We loved this tree and regret having to remove it. Our Senior Urban Forester and his staff had been watching the tree for several years because it had standard Maple trunk rot, most likely Ganoderma or fomes. In all cases we …
And the living is easy… In spite of our passive aggressive weather, it looks like summer is finally here. A few signs: The hotties of beach volleyball are at Alki, wearing board shorts and upturned visors, surf betties squeezed together on a blanket nearby. We ate fresh raspberries and lemon sorbet for dessert. J. is …
I missed this item in the news as it went to press just after we left for Canada. That means I found out the hard way, by walking through Volunteer Park, which I do often as it’s just over THERE from my place, and coming across a great scarred stump and a handful of shellshocked …
This is my new neighbor, Rusty. I have serious dog envy.