Wallyreader Yolanda writes: It would be great if you could do a spot on dog-friendly Wallingford. Especially with the summer heat a lot of people are out with their dogs, many stores offer air conditioning, a safe space outside of the hot and dangerous car plus treats and water. So, on one of our few warm and sunny days, I leashed up Wallyhood Rover Reporter, Scout, and set out to do a recon mission to see just how many stores in Wallingford are…
A whole series of gigantic potholes being repaired on Woodlawn south of 41st? No, must be Hamilton construction. A man with tired eyes walks up the block with a fussy baby in a Snugli. The man walks and walks, the baby cries and cries. On 39th and Carr Ave. N. (a lovely "hidden" street) earsplitting shrieks - catfight! A burly ginger tom blurs after a gray-and-white under a car and then back into some bushes, screaming the whole way. The tom…
The 30th Annual (congrats!) Seattle Peace Concerts are in full swing and coming to Gas Works Park this Sunday, 8/15. The concerts have been part of Seattle summers since 1981. Concert coordinator Don Glenn, known as the "Chief" of the Seattle Peace Concerts, attributes their continued success to the underlying spiritual nature of the gatherings. As the Seattle Peace Concerts website puts it, "The concerts are non-political in nature (no speeches) and celebrate peace and the oneness of all people. AT…
We've always been a bit jealous of Portland's awesome bike culture and food cart culture. Well, how about this: this Saturday, as previously mentioned, we get a bit of bike culture with the Fiets of Parenthood, and tomorrow we get some food cart culture. Street Treats, a mobile dessert truck, will be parked outside of Fuel Coffee on 45th Street tomorrow, Wednesday Augusth 11th from 4 - 7 pm. From the Street Treats web site: Street Treats will offer homemade baked…
It's the Olympics of parental biking: go head-to-head in "The Dropped Toy", "Sacks of Groceries", "Blackberry Picking on the Go" and the up and coming Extreme Sport, "Diaper Change on a Bike". Add-in the kids program ("Teeter-totter, joust practice, cone slalom, Evil Knievel 'ring of fire', the skid zone, a stop sign") and you've got a the best two-wheel extravaganza going, and it's all happening this Sunday, August 15th from 3 - 6 pm on the ground of the John Stanford…
If you live near the John Stanford School and happen to see a long-haired black cat with white on his chin and paws, please let me know. It was nineteen years ago and the other side of the country when that cat and I first crossed paths. I had another cat, Sadie, at the time, black with white on her chin and paws, just a few months older than a kitten. We used to call her "Third", an in-joke between my…
Wallyhood reader Chris snapped a pic as workers were loading sewing machines and other items onto a truck this afternoon. He spoke with the landlord who was clearing out the building, and told him that Phyllis became very ill (stroke she thinks) and is in a home now. As far as she is aware, all owners of clothing that had tickets on it have been contacted. Thanks for the update, Chris!