This Empty Northern Hemisphere
Playing non-stop for the last six weeks, this is a stunning set of love songs, leavings, and sad.
Knowing the Neighbors: Soup Swap
More fun than boring planning meetings, Soup Swap is a great way to meet the neighbors.
Nixon in China
A modern opera provides an excuse to visit Vancouver, I just wish I was more excited by it.
Soup Swap: 2010 Seattle
Started in Seattle, Soup Swap is sweeping the nation. This year: extra good for your food bank.
Community Harvest
Plenty of urban fruit goes to waste. Volunteers in our neighborhood distributed to people in need.
“Something about the Summertime”
Better in a car and better loud, it’s my current favorite band. They’re coming to Seattle.
I Eat Meat
This morning, I drove out to Ebey Island for a class on pig butchering. I’m going to post a graphic “How To” and what I learned soon from this valuable class, but I thought before I did I’d get the cute pictures out of the way. Most of us eat meat and never see what [...]
Another Soup Swap! CD Soup Swap a Success
Our freezer is groaning under the weight of frozen soup. Hosting our third soup swap of the winter on Tuesday night, we’ve had nothing by soup diversity since the cold, dreary times returned. I suppose it’s fitting for the economic downturn. Our final Soup Swap of 2008-09, was posted on the Internets as an open [...]
Central District Soup Swap: February 24
Vic and I will be hosting a Central District Soup Swap as a way to meet more of our neighbors in the Central District on Tuesday night, February 24. We’re going to broadly define the CD so that if you live north of Atlantic, south of Madison, east of 14th and west of 30th, we’re [...]
Thinking about Flying
I hate flying. Tomorrow, we are flying. I hate that. In light of today’s horrible news (down plane despite happy ending for shell-shocked terrified people who may never fly again), it is worth thinking about the amazing thing that flight is. Click right here on FlightAware.com for one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen: [...]
A Word Press Conversion: Soup Swap!
For the last several years, I’ve been chaffing on Blogger! There’s so many features I see around that I think would be cool and maybe even helpful that just don’t exist on this platform. And while I’ve not code-a-phobic, I’m a bit of a dunderhead. So I just keep blogging along…UNTIL FREAKIN’ TODAY! In the [...]
The End of Snowmageddon
Fifteen days ago, I snapped some pictures of a decent snowfall. Little did I know that it would only be the beginning to a two week decent into madness, futility, and frustration. We’re back from a unexpected car-free trip to Canada and still have a decent pile of shoveled snow around the sidewalk, though no [...]
Back in the Cold: Winter Blast 2008
The last of the tulips went in on Friday. I spent the day whipping around the garden, a frenzy of winterizing. It’s the first time since leaving Boston that I joined my fellow Seattlites in hoarding and brow-bending worry over an incoming storm that the weathermen promised would bring snow, ice and certain homeboundness. And [...]
Pops! Our Giant Rabbit
It’s been a few weeks now that Pops has been living here at the Gardnovsky Home for Wayward Pets and he’s settling in nicely. At twenty pounds, the first thing most people notice is that he is unusually large for a rabbit. His sweet temperament is obvious only after the shock of seeing such a [...]
Seattle Custom Framing: Lovely Work
Last week, we picked up our ketubah from our pal Larry at Seattle Custom Framing. It’s stunning. A ketubah is a Jewish marriage contract signed as part of the wedding ceremony in front of the gathered congregation. Despite its spectacular framing, it’s hanging on a bland colored wall upstairs in what we call our “private [...]
Giving Thanks! (to Turkeys)
There’s some advantage to setting the table with name tags. You get to sit to exactly who you want, knowing the conversation will be a delight and the evening fly by. It did. In our fortunate life, we have much to be thankful for. While, I won’t make a tear swelling list here, one simple [...]
Capitol Hill Turkey Transition
With some trepidation, I headed over to Capitol Hill to start the Turkey Transitioning. Admittedly, I felt better about it after our Sunday Co-Op get together where roles were discussed, a plan outlined and a “Wild Turkey” toast was made to the seven turkeys Margot and PS clan were raising. Suffice to say, when you [...]