Seems like everyone wants to double-down on their urban farms. Lettuce and pole beans aren't enough anymore: the modern urbanite need bees, chickens and goats! We have a standing offer out to help any neighbor set up a bee hive in their back yard, and this Saturday, April 11 at 10:00 am, Seattle Tilth at the Good Shepherd Center is offering a class on raising chickens in your back yard: Starting with baby chicks You will learn the most important considerations…
The Seattle P-I is reporting a break-in and assault at restaurant on the "1700 block of 45th Street" (stretching from Babalu to Wells Fargo on the south side of the street). Police are investigating a Wallingford restaurant robbery that happened early Tuesday. About 2 a.m. a man broke glass in the front door of the restaurant, in the 1700 block of North 45th Street. He grabbed cash from the register once inside, but the business owner went downstairs to confront him.…
Tonight at sundown begins Passover, perhaps the raddest Jewish holiday of them all. Sure, Chanukah gets all the attention because of its proximity to Christmas (thus leading to Jewsmas, our creation, but that's another story). However, we have always been partial to Passover. Why? So glad you asked. Passover is a celebration of the Jews escape from slavery in Egypt, throwing off the shackles of oppression and becoming a free people again. And the story isn't a slow, grinding process of…
Peeling back time like skins from an onion, the renovation project going on to the building at 45th and Sunnyside has revealed a sign from ancient times. Look at the old name that was hidden beneath the paneling. Cute! (And no, we still haven't forgiven them for being flat out rude to us back in January.) (Thanks to Michelle for snapping the photo!)
Don't you love it when you're out for a stroll, and you come upon some small piece of art that's been there for ages that you just never noticed? It's a nice reminder that there's beauty under our noses at every turn. We happened past these two bird houses on 1st Ave NE just above 42nd St while enjoying the early bit of summer that visited yesterday. As luck would have it, the lady of the house, R., was enjoying the…
If we celebrated Easter, we might well brunch at Joule this Sunday. It's a special, $25 / pp family style affair featuring: Dungeness crab egg foo young, Spicy shrimp and grits, French toast strata, sake poached rhubarb, Spicy lamb and potato gratin. Their ad displays a yellow Peep. In a sign of the times, their announcement mail instructs us "search for 'joule restaurant' at FaceBook.com". We did, no sign of Peep Foo Young on the full menu, either. (206.632.1913 for reservations)
How about that weekend? High 60's both days? Come on! Hope you got outside. We did and got some garden prep in. In particular, we prepped the tomato bed. See, normally, we get bushels of tomatoes, more than we can eat, so many we leave them in a bowl out round front of the house, we beg neighbors to take them. But last year: bupkis. A barely enough for a sandwich. Clearly, last summer was an oddity in many ways, but…