Garage Sales, Open Houses, Oh My!

In an attempt to add even more nosy neighbor awesomeness to our joint Wallingford - Green Lake garage sale map, the intrepid folks over at My Green Lake have added Open Houses to the map. View Wallingford / Green Lake Garage Sales & Open Houses in a larger map Apologies for not posting this last night. If you've got something you want to see listed here next week, drop us a line!

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Shrine

Happened by this wondrous bit of lawn art at 42nd and Corliss today. Mooskimo wonders whether there's a secret parade in the works? Midnight on the new moon, perhaps?

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Water, Water, Water

In years past, we propped the thin branches of our peach tree to prevent the fat balls of juicy fruit from snapping them. This year, what with the lack of rain, the thick thatch of grass around its base and our surfeit of neglect, we have only shriveled little hairy things growing, roughly the size of a dinosaur brain. This year may be lost, but in the hopes of saving our tree for next year, we took Nancy Merrill's advice, excavated…

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Lullaby Moon Report

We apologize for not making a bigger deal out of it. Lullaby Moon, the roving full moon performance that made its way to Gas Works Park this past Wednesday, was an absolute treasure and a treat. When we arrived at 8:30 pm, the show was already fully underway, and the entire south side of Kite Hill was packed tight. The performance straddled land and sea, with moon drunk rabbits, alchemist cats, clock children and more dancing and frolicking on shore and…

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Home Invasion – Wallingford

Brian L. just forwarded this story from this morning's Seattle Times, Robbers make off with computers and a gun in North Seattle home invasion incident early today: One armed man and two other men kicked in the door of an apartment [in the 5400 block of Meridian Avenue North about 1:10 a.m.], terrorizing two residents there before fleeing with computers and a gun, Seattle police said. [...] "The two victims were in their apartment when three unknown male suspects kicked the…

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Electric Beach Off

Electric Beach Tanning, the salon that's been turning blond UW girls that unique shade of orange for as long as we've lived here, has switched off the lights, effective immediate! A sign in their window on 45th St announced: It's nice that they are honoring their Customers tans, but we're worried about the witches on their web site, and, of course, about the arraignments.

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