June 27, 2008
Oh. My. Gosh.
It’s so unbelievably beautiful out – like the kind of beautiful we haven’t seen in about, oh, 8 months – that I feel like I should call in sick today. Just in case the sun never comes out again, I don’t want to miss it! Unfortunately I have an overdeveloped sense of responsibility. It’s going to get me in trouble some day…
July 23, 2007
Bird Spotting
We’ve been in our new house about a week now, and things have finally calmed down to the point where I can actually think about blogging again (occasionally, at least).
One of the first tasks in the new home was to put out seed to see if we can attract some birds. We had a window feeder at the apartment that never got even a single taker.
I put out some mixed seed that the Capitol Hill birds had disdained and within hours had a flock of sparrows gorging themselves (not to mention a couple of chubby squirrels). We upgraded to a feeder over the weekend and thus far have had the following sightings:
- house sparrows (about a zillion)
- chickadee
- house finch (just one, hanging with the sparrows. Is he confused?)
- hummingbirds (feeding on the fuchsia immediately outside my office window. Cool!)
I know, this was a boring post. I’m easing into it gently.
June 14, 2007
Hello, house!
Homeowners again! We just closed on a new home here in Seattle. Once we get moved in a few weeks, I’ll have to retire the “Life on Capitol Hill” category. I guess this is the inaugural post for the “Life in Rainier Valley” category.
Note for my non-Seattleite visitors: Seattle actually has about a gazillion neighborhoods. In my experience the boundaries of these are pretty fuzzy and people who live on the edges may not even be entirely sure which neighborhood they’re in. And the big neighborhoods are subdivided into smaller neighborhoods, too. Anyway, according to the County Clerk, our home is in “Atlantic”, the northernmost area in the Rainier Valley area, bounded by Beacon Hill to the west and Mt. Baker to the east. I’ve actually never heard anyone say they live in Atlantic, nor have I heard of the neighborhood. Maybe I’ll try it out and see if the natives give me funny looks.
