Results tagged “seattleparksdepartment”

• "Gross!" is right. The Rainier Valley Post explores reports of mouse droppings at the Mount Baker Safeway and wonders rightly, "Where is the health department?"
• While the Mount Baker Safeway is having rodent problems, the neighborhood's Rainier Grocery Outlet is shutting down next week just in time for Thanksgiving.
• Hooray! We will be keeping at least de facto nudity at Seattle area parks.

• Blogging Georgetown asks a very important question: how clean is your watering hole? The answers are the county health inspection scores for Georgetown bars.
• Lights & Sirens answers the age old question, what's the quickest way to a man's heart? The answer in Tacoma? A cordless drill.
• Continuing the question and answers theme--the Big Blog wants to know what you'd name the newest parks in Seattle?

If you walk up or down Pine Street toward downtown, you may have seen a group of people intently watching the dog run over I-5 just to the west of Minor Ave. If you slowed your gait and took a gander yourself, you would have had the shock we did last night of seeing a bunch of goats munching away at the hillside. It was strange enough that we stopped our run to the bus to snap a quick photo.

"...Our bad."

After an exhaustive search of the city and the surrounding internets Seattlest has finally located the site's first patron saint. It's this random guy, Charlie Schaubel, a middling golf pro who's wanderings happend to place him in Seattle at times over the course of a long and random life. His greatest accomplishment? Making golf sound cool.

Listen people, skateboards are not a tool of the devil. Wouldn't you rather have your kids outside, getting some exercise in a publicly-sanctioned location, rather than either sliding down your neighbor's handrails or off doing much worse? Not if you live in the Greenlake/Wallingford neighborhood, it would seem.

All we needed was one day of sun, wind, and no precipitation and our thoughts turned waterwards: it's time to think about sailing.