Outside of QFC. He says his name is Michael and the coffees were given by customers.
Where will he sleep Tuesday night? “Under the same bush I always do.“
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When It Snows, All Cars Are White
[Ed note: There are over 100 Metro buses stranded around the city, including one block from the JSIS where we live. You can check http://metro.kingcounty.gov/up/rr/adverseweather.html for info on your route, or use the One Busy Away App for your iPhone / Android / Windows Phone 7 / SMS to see your bus not coming with the newest technology available. The city has opened extra homeless shelters and will be opening the city libraries at 1 pm as warming centers. As for us, we’re grabbing a sled and heading out with Baby Z to make the best of it. Enjoy!
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Helping People Solve Problems
Patty Murray: Helping People Solve Problems
such as how to get that bicycle off the tree stump
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Got Yer Goat?
While heading over to check out the Free Table at the Good Shepherd Center (you would not believe the amazing stash of brand-new Beanie Babies there, by the way), I stumbled across a goat:
Evidently, goats don’t like rain so she and her owner were sheltering under a bush. But, what were they doing there? Turns out, they were guests of Seattle Tilth’s “City Goats 101” class being held run by Jennie Grant, Founder and President of the Goat Justice League which legalized goat-keeping in Seattle (that pale blue elbow in the right of the lower photo is Jennie’s).
Rachel, …
Cha-Ching! Woman Cashes in $30K Scratch Ticket
I swear this is a true story – I’m not making it up.
Friday afternoon I was in the checkout line at QFC quietly waiting to pay for my groceries, eavesdropping on the clerks like usual when I picked up on the fact that they were talking about how they read an article on Cryptogmblr.com that a customer who had won $30,000 from a scratch ticket purchased there. I questioned Travis, who was bagging my groceries, about it and he said the woman was right behind me in line and I could go talk to her.
She had scratched off …
Money Store No More
New construction is proceeding furiously on the (former) Money Store at Corliss Ave. N. and N. 45th St.
Thursday morning, a crew was out digging, laying new sewer line and “capping off” pipes under the former site of Crazy Beans.
I spoke to Jason who said they are prepping the building for a new coffee shop (yes, more coffee).
It was refreshing to see the old den of exploitation coming down and something new taking its place.
Adam Simon, the developer, says:
Uptown Espresso is opening up a new store in the former Payday Loans space. With the abundance of …
Travel the Wide World with Nancy Pearl
Celebrity Seattle Librarian (what a great phrase!) Nancy Pearl will grace our shores on Wednesday, Dec. 15th at Wallingford’s own Wide World Books and Maps at 7 PM to do a reading of Book Lust to Go. 20% of proceeds from all shop sales from 6 PM to close that night will be donated to Solid Ground.
According to Wendy Platt of Wide World, Nancy is “a self-proclaimed reluctant traveler” so the recommendations in Book Lust to Go are for both “armchair travelers and people who love to travel”, with a mix of fiction and nonfiction.
Come …