Recently, we came across a giant puffball mushroom (Calvatia Gigantea), a tasty edible, growing here in Wallingford, over by Eastern and 42nd. Well, we were pretty sure it was a giant puffball, and not the deadly amanita, with which is occasionally confused, but just to make sure, we snapped a picture with our iPhone and sent it off to our friend Matt. Matt's response was as succinct as it was wise: "Never identify mushrooms via MMS". True dat. Perhaps we'd be…
(This Saturday, the Hash House Harriers, a group of "drinkers with a running problem", held their annual Red Dress Run, culminating in Gas Works Parks. Veteran Harrier and Wallyhood writer Patrick Shaw went along the job.) I sneaked out of the house with my red dress tucked up under my tee-shirt - my wife didn’t think that the new neighbors should see me sporting a spaghetti strap dress and running shoes this early in their tenure here in Wallingford! The Red…
We’ve all been watching the devastation in Haiti and just yesterday the second crippling snowstorm that has paralyzed the Mid-Atlantic region and most of the Eastern seaboard. I wonder how many of us have been thinking about getting an emergency kit set aside. You know, some water and food, maybe stash a crank flashlight and first aid kit with it. For the past couple of years, Sustainable Wallingford and the Wallingford Community Council, in partnership with the Seattle Office of Emergency…
Got your attention, didn’t I? Well, this will be fun, though not quite as fun as the title. Almost every book we read in our house (and, let me tell you, we are voracious readers) comes from the library to which we make a generous annual contribution - and so should YOU!. We visit daily - so the reduction in hours was a shock and it inspired me to put together this tribute to the underappreciated Wallingford branch library: Your Helpful…
Back in January, we noted that a note had gone up at the Alterations and Reweaving Center on 45th that it was closed due to illness. Commenters noted that Phyllis Brown, now in her 80's, has been at it a long time and were worried that she wasn't doing well. Holly dropped us a note the other day asking for an update: I came across your posting online regarding Phyllis Brown while I was searching for a way to contact her business.…
Hey, who's that standing next to Mayor Mike McGinn? Why, it's Helen Ippolito of Wallingford's Hamilton School. Along with Page Robinson of Hamilton, she was one of the winners of the City's Neighbor Appreciation Day Art Contest. As one of the top two winners, Helen's art will be featured on greeting cards distributed at libraries and community centers around the city. Nice. Oh, and that's Councilmember O'Brien on the other side of her. His art appears nowhere that we're aware of.
(Welcome Wallingford Neighborhood Council President Mary Heim to these pages. She will be contributing directly to Wallyhood, including both notes from the Council meetings, like this, and other thoughts and issues as she pleases.) The monthly Wallingford Community Council, WCC, board meeting was held Wednesday February 3rd at the Good Shepherd Center. A small but committed group of community members were present to talk about some pretty serious issues facing Wallingford and Seattle as a whole. As with most community issues,…