This weekend is Folklife Weekend in Seattle. If you find yourself craving that certain musical combination of nerdiness, mixed ethnicity, and crunch, Folklife is for you! Folklife is also a big event for the good people of the Seattle Ukulele Player’s Association – a large contingent shows up to play and it’s a Good Time. …
We’ve only got a tiny little Weber kettle so we’re not exactly set up to grill for the masses, but it’s been working out just fine for dinner for two, I tell you what. Last night I covered some chicken breasts in mustard, balsamic vintager, chili oil, and olive oil and, once they were perfectly …
When we were little kids, my folks used to pry us out of bed before dawn on summer weekends, bundle us in the back of the Buick Estate Wagon, and drive us over the winding hazard that is California’s Highway 17. I don’t remember anything about the transition from bed to car, but I can …
When I read on West Seattle Blog about today’s low tide, I knew where I was going to play hooky today. Destination? Alki Beach, of course. Low tide is a smorgasbord for water loving birds, a treasure hunt for nerds with metal detectors, and a learning playground for folks who don’t often get to see …
The coffee at Bird on a Wire is intense – I guess it’s Italian style, very dark, strong, a little bitter. I like a smoother brew, but the coffee house is cool. It’s a little place stuffed to bursting with bird kitsch and tiny paintings. I wasn’t sure what to do with my eyeballs, so …
Thank heavens for the arrival of summer-like days to the Pacific Northwest! Nothing says summer in Seattle like a plate of grilled fish. It’s not summer, not yet, and longer term residents know that this is just a short honeymoon until we return to the frigid conditions of Spring. But does that keep us from …