I wanted to send a quick shout-out to some amazing Halloween awesomeness (and hopefully not foment too much FOMO.) Zevin and I had a ball reverse trick-or-treating: I outfitted a wagon as a hula-hoop toss game, where everyone who played got a super ball as a prize. We had a little sound system for effect, and a couple bottles of high-end hootch for the adults to enjoy while the kids played, and we pulled our roving party wagon around the streets…
I know, last minute. I asked way back at the beginning of Halloween for people to tell me if they were setting up haunted houses, day-glo houses or the like, and then I didn't follow up. Bad blogger! Bad, bad blogger! So now, day of: anyone want to let us know about a particularly good house to come visit tonight? Day-glo, haunted house, ir maybe treats for adults? I can say that, as they do every year, the folks at 42nd…
Solid Ground posted this update and photo taken from their office today to their Facebook page: Fire across the street from Solid Ground's HQ in Wallingford. The house has been used as a squat for some time; hopefully everyone got out ok. People should not have to illegally squat and live in dangerous situations in one of the richest cities in the world. That house, along with the buildings that used to house Sutra and Sugar on Top, are all slated…
Wallingford Center has trick or treating from 2 to 5 PM on Halloween, plus bring non-perishable food for FamilyWorks when you visit. Fun fact: You know why the food bank always wants non-perishable items? Because other food they get for free from the grocery stores as soon as it goes past its sell by date. Granola bars and canned food are a precious commodity for the food bank. Archie McPhee has of course been doing Halloween all week, and Kids on 45th…
Countdown to candy day. Whether you've chosen to go the non-candy route (see Halloween Planning for some alternatives to candy for trick-or-treaters) or the candy bar route, if you've got kids, you're going to have a big bag of candy coming into your house Saturday night. Parents seem to have a variety of strategies on this one: Let the kiddos gorge themselves. Nothing teaches a lesson like an aching belly. One night of gorging, then the bag mysteriously disappears. Candy doled…
When someone knocks at my door at dinner time, I groan. I'm not buying what they're selling, and as a rule, I don't "give" at the door (I prefer to do my research through Charity Navigator or the like, plus the economics of door-to-door fundraising means that a significant chunk of my donation would go to the fundraiser, rather than the cause.) But tonight, I got a surprise. Fiber! Yes, the long awaited deliverance from Comcast hell has arrived: CenturyLink fiber optic internet…
Wallingford and Green Lake Community Councils made a request to SDOT back in 2007 to reconfigure Green Lake Way with 3 goals: Maintain or improve throughput for vehicles at the intersection of 50th and Green Lake Way Connect Stone Way bike lanes to the Green Lake Way bike lanes around the lake Restore lost pedestrian crossings between Tangletown and the park As SDOT typically does these days, they accepted the bike and pedestrian goals and then threw out the goal of maintaining…