Reminder to the kids (and parents) at the park across the street
04 Jul
Posted by: aaron in: seattle
Private fireworks are banned in Seattle. You could go to jail. And piss us off. And stop us from sleeping - you were going all night, after all, for the last 4 nights or so. And scare all of the dogs in the neighborhood. And hurt people - according to the news, at least 3 amputations last year from fireworks in Seattle alone. Not cool. So stop!
Private use, sale, or possession of fireworks is prohibited in the City of Seattle. The private use of fireworks without a permit in the city of Seattle is punishable by a fine and possible time in jail.
(Not just Seattle by the way - most of the rest of the state of Washington also bans fireworks).
Happy 4th! Enjoy your safe, public fireworks. And stop annoying me!
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While most of the time has been spent laying flat, reading, and watching TV, there has been a few activities over the past few weeks…
And yes, you can also call this post: Aaron is clearing out his camera from old pictures!
(As always, click on the pictures for larger versions)
- We’ve been wanting to get a fence put into the front yard - it makes the outside of the house enclosed, so if we are BBQing, doing yard work, or just reading and enjoying outside, Molly can now be with us. So we hired some folks (clearly, I couldn’t do it myself, with or without the back condition) to put in our cliche white picket fence - very white indeed until it starts raining again!
- Joelle finally found planters she likes, and put them out on the front porch:
- Molly bought me a book on Macaroni and Cheese for Father’s Day, so of course, I immediately wanted Joelle and my mother to make me one of the dishes - asparagus macaroni gratin. Fantastic, albeit a little heavy, was the universal agreement. Perhaps better as a side dish so you don’t try to eat too much of it.
- Got a Get Well Soon cookie from some really nice friends - overnighted from New Jersey, OU-certified and everything:
- My mother bought Molly a necklace thing from the Edmonds Art Fair (she went with my sister). I am not one to know these things, but everyone commented on how pretty she was with it on - on her end, at least she didn’t mind it the one time she wore it!
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Greg, Joelle, Shay (woof!), Molly (woof!) and I spent some quality time at the dog park on Saturday - and then we got hungry for dinner. We spent a bit of time researching where to eat that would allow dogs to sit with us (since we had the dogs with us, and it was so hot out, we didn’t want to leave them in the car). We ended up back at Norm’s, the only place we know of that allows dogs both inside and out. Luckily, we were able to get an outdoor spot, so both us and the pooches were happy with the choice.
Rather than always going back there, I spent some time looking up additional places around Seattle that are dog-friendly. Found a couple of a articles with good links
- http://www.chowhound.com/topics/520235 - recommends Norm’s, the Islander, Tutta Bella, and Volunteer Park Cafe (so far, more likely coming). (Note: Broksonic, who replied, is me - I use that name on some sites. I think it was the brand of a TV I had a while ago, or something like that - I’ve been using it forever)
- http://community.livejournal.com/seattle/5202948.html - recommends White Horse Trading Company, Norm’s, Wayword Coffeehouse, C+P Coffee, Lava Lounge, Tin Hat, Stumbling Monk, Summit Public House, Edmonds The Dining Dog Cafe & Bakery. But then digresses into arguments over dogs and food, also links to DogFriendly’s and Citysearches list, but I called a few of the places on there - I wouldn’t trust those lists.
Good to have options!
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On a follow-up to my last post, here’s a good link to a write-up of Seattle dog parks: http://www.nwsource.com/recreation/match-your-pup-right-local-leash-area
And a good map of all of them: http://www.coladog.org/olas/COLOR_MAP_MUDBAY07.pdf
We’ve tried Golden Gardens and Woodland Park, as I stated previously. Northgate’s is also really close. Once I can walk well again (more shortly), we’ll have to try that one out…
But more importantly: Come on Lower Kinnear Park - get the dog park built there already! (I just sent an email to Citizens for Off-leash Areas to find out more on the status of this - the last public info is circa 2006).
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Molly just got dropped off from her weekly visit to the Bone-A-Fide ranch, and I’ve never seen her with a bigger smile on her face. She loves that place for doggie daycare!
We checked out some of the in-city options (Barking Lounge, Downtown Dog Lounge, etc…), but got such a better feeling when we headed out to Snohomish to do our visit with Bone-A-Fide; it is a huge open area (as opposed to indoors), the dogs all looked like they were playing the full time (as opposed to some play, some crated, as the others have due to numbers of dogs there), and even better - they do pickups and drop offs, along with having boarding available.
Ian, the driver, says Molly is really cute during the whole experience.
She loves running around in the van - there are 12 dogs together on the ride up (which takes a half-hour) - and is one of the best of the bunch - she stares out the window, then plays, then goes back to staring out the window - just like at home.
At the ranch, she’s apparently quite a digger (which we’ve also seen at the local dog parks - we’ve gone to Golden Gardens and Woodland Park) - she loves digging up a pile, than jumping back trying to catch the dirt - I’ll have to get a video the next time she does this at the dog park. She’s apparently quite the teacher, and gets other dogs excited to start digging as well! It’s pretty cute :)
On the way back, she tends to sleep a bunch, according to Ian, but as soon as they turn into Queen Anne, Molly perks up, seemingly saying: “I know this place!” and gets pretty excited as they approach the house.
She also runs around a bunch while she’s there - which explains why she just ran into the house, came up to me, licked my face, and immediately jumped on her bed to go to sleep! As they say on the Animal Planet shows - “A tired dog is a happy dog!”
Highly recommend any Seattle dog owners check out this place.
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(Aaron again)
Reminder to myself for the future: https://fortress.wa.gov/lni/bbip/search.aspx
Been looking into getting some electrical work done, so this is helpful to make sure the people I speak with are licensed (and for how long they’ve been doing their stuff…)
While I am at it: http://web1.seattle.gov/DPD/permitstatus/default.aspx - look up Seattle Permit History on a house or building
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Joelle and I have been talking about getting a dog for a while, and yesterday was the day Molly joined us in our family! She’s quickly adapted, even having a Facebook page already (really, a dogbook page, but same basic thing!)
We started our search at the Seattle Animal Shelter last weekend, but weren’t immediately drawn to any of their dogs. We quickly jumped on Petfinder.com (great resource by the way!) and did a search for other dogs available within a 3 hour radius; Joelle really wanted to find a dog from a rescue league or shelter rather and I agreed - adult dogs are much easier, plus it’s nice to be able to do a good deed by finding a dog who needs a home!
We were drawn to Molly immediately by her Petfinder posting (her old name was Mama, but that was only her name for 2 months), a rescue dog housed with the Washington German Shepard Rescue League (though she is not a German Shepard) and had a great series of back and forth emails last week with the League, the Foster Mom, and and the house-checker-outer, and last Tuesday, we drove up to Marysville to meet her; We were smitten right away by her looks, good behavior, and other temperance. She was going to be our dog!
Joelle had mistakenly called her Molly instead of Mama when we saw her, and was fixated on that name from then on. I really wanted a name with a Hebrew connection and sort of wanted a grandmother-esque name for some reason, so Molly works - while not the most Jewish name in the world, it at least tangentially comes from Hebrew - according to naming web-sites, it means wished-for child in Hebrew, so at least it is something!
Pictures obviously! Next post will be a write-up of our first day together… (Click on the picture for larger pictures)
Here are some pictures her foster mom (Kelly - thanks for everything!) had sent us of her playing with some other foster puppies on Friday:
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Working from home today, in order to get some private time to work on my team’s annual reviews, I found myself in need of a change of location to keep my productivity up. Since I knew I had to be in Redmond at 6 pm for my friend’s bachelor dinner, I decided to head that way and beat traffic.
I stopped at the Redmond Library due to their free WiFi, and immediately noticed they had a pretty nice coffee vending machine (not quite the same look as the picture, but you get the idea). I rather enjoyed my cafe latte with medium strength and 1 sugar, thank you very much (and even more so that they had separate buttons to figure this all out).
Which brought me to a question that perplexed me - how come you see these vending coffee machines that serve liquid in a cup, but never see vending machines for pop/soda that do the same thing? They are always in cans or bottles. It is even more perplexing since there is always the drink machines (such as the picture on the right) at fast food places and other food establishments, but they aren’t acting as vending machines in those contexts. Anyone have any ideas?
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I tend not to drive too much (been big into bussing and walking), or head in towards South Lake Union’s direction much these days, so I almost never see the new South Lake Union Streetcar (it used to be called the South Lake Union Trolley or SLUT in the Seattle jargon until the politicians figured out the abbreviation).
This evening, on the way back from a friend’s Bachelor Party dinner, I happen to drive by the SLUT, not once, but twice (traffic was pretty bad, so I was stuck not moving in time for it do a back and forth).
Each time, there was exactly one rider on it - trust me, I looked closely to see if I could find anyone else on there. There was also no one waiting at the SLUT-stop.
Which further proves my thoughts on the whole thing to begin with. I love the idea of more mass-transit, and would love to get to a place where cars aren’t needed anymore. But for this mass-transit to make sense, it actually has to go places where people need it - and not between the mishmash of blocks they threw the current lines down on. Expand it to the U-District or Capitol Hill (or Eastlake), and I can see the lines being used. But as is - I don’t even understand why those single riders were even on it.
I know I am not alone among my friends and co-workers (most of whom are frequent bus riders) — no one seems to like the current rendition of the streetcar or understand it’s point. Though to be fair, most of them are secretly wanting to go for a spin, if only so they can scream out "I rode the SLUT and the city encouraged it!"
Actually, I want to be able to say that too! I should go for a ride soon :)
Maybe the name is how they’ve crossed the 100000 rider milestone (according to http://www.seattlestreetcar.org/)… people are so full of laughing about the system they actually want to ride it. Funny how these things turn out.