Parts of Beach Drive now have less shade
August 15, 2007 by Leave a Comment
West Seattle Blog has been covering how a patch of trees are being removed by Atlas along Beach Drive, to read the story, click here.
Personally, I prefer the before pictures.
SW Precent Public Safety Newsletter AND Picnic
August 14, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Here is the latest issue of the Public Safety Newsletter from our local police department: Download southwest_precinct_public_safetynewsletter_aug_9_2007.pdf
And…info on the picnic at the Southwest Precint this Saturday (August 18) from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Download SouthwestPicnicFlyer.pdf
September 13th at 6:30 p.m. we have a tenative Block Watch meeting set up for Beach Drive. If you’re interested, contact me. If you’re not in our area of Beach Drive, I’m happy to refer you to the appropriate SPD representative.
Move it or lose it
August 13, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Before you go to bed Tuesday, if you have one of these where you park on Beach Drive, you’ll want to move your car. Spots where they’re finishing up the Sharrows will have no parking from 6:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. on August 15.
Blimp, Baldy and Beautiful Sunset
August 13, 2007 by Leave a Comment
A few recent photos to share with you. Did you see the Goodyear Blimp floating over Vashon last Wednesday?
This Bald Eagle was enjoying the low tide on Thursday.
Ah…the grand finale photo is the sunet from last night.
All in one weeks time.
Lost Cat along 4000 block of Beach Drive
August 11, 2007 by 2 Comments
I just took a picture of this sign…unfortunatley, there is no name, phone number or email to contact the human of this lost cat I may have cropped off the phone number. If I have a chance, I’ll retake the photo…or if you contact me, I’ll try to contact the cat’s human. This picture was taken by LaRustica.
Sharrow Shots
August 11, 2007 by 7 Comments
I published my last post, went out side to poop my dog and voila: more sharrows. Looks like they’re finishing up? 
I noticed bicyclist driving outside the designated sharrow lane where it’s complete. 
Sharrows…share how?
August 11, 2007 by 3 Comments
The official sharrows are showing up along Beach Drive with still no notice to the residents. The only way to discover what the new paint or white-perma-whatever is along the road has been from either the West Seattle Blog or if you happened to attend the last Alki Community Council meeting. No flyers…no nothing! Or did the City of Seattle just miss our house?
Let me begin by saying I have no issues with sharing the road with bicycles. I ride a bike on the road to. And, I would much rather see a bicyclist riding on the road instead of zooming down the sidewalks thru pedistrians.
I’m just not sure what the sharrow is suppose to do? Autos and bikes all ready share the road….we have been for years. It’s not providing the bicyclist any more room or safety. With most residents having to park on Beach Drive and people who are visiting the parks along our neighborhood having to do the same…there’s no additional room for designated bike lanes along our narrow pot-holed road. How much did the City spend on sharrows instead of fixing Beach Drive so the people in cars (old and young…I’ve seen ya) can speed faster on it?
If anything the sharrows will just help residents along Beach Drive with parking…the handy white lines will keep us closer to the curb and less in the street. No real benefit for bikes IMHO.
What do you think?
Update: Here’s a link to an article just published from the Seattle PI stating "some wonder if they’re more than just goodwill gestures to cyclists. After all, critics say, what does it really change?"
Friday Fun….Do’h! I’ve been Simpsonsized.
August 10, 2007 by 1 Comment
It’s actually not a bad resemblance (sans the yellow skin). Would you like to be Simpsonized? Just click here.
I’d love to see it.
The Mollydooker Shake
August 8, 2007 by 2 Comments
The other day, I told you about Mollydooker wines and apparently Sparky Marquis, CEO of Mollydooker and wine maker, reads my blogs! (Since he’s in Australia, what is more likely is that he has a "Google search" created for his wines).
Sparky sent me a very friendly email about Gary Vanderchuk and my post:
"Thanks very much for the great comments in your recent “The Mortgage Porter”….I was laughing at Gary’s videos when I saw them the other day. Now he is extremely passionate. As he said when he was doing the videos he is a great friend of ours and has always been a huge supporter of our wines. What I realised by the end of his video was that I had forgotten to teach him about the "Mollydooker Shake" which we found to be such a critical part of what we do that we have put it on our new website www.mollydookerwines.com . Gary said that he would be reviewing The Boxer (as well as the fall release wines, Enchanted Path, Carnival of Love and Velvet Glove) using the Mollydooker Shake, so we will be interesting to see what he says. All of the Lefty Series wines will also be reviewed in The Wine Advocate at the end of August so it is going to be awesome to see the comparison."
My husband and I gave the Dooky Shake a try. Earlier this week, we opened a 2006 Two Left Feet. Doing the Dooky Shake made a huge improvement on the wine. It’s incredible. Before we were unsure about the 2006 Two Left Feet (compared to 2005)…now we’re thrilled.
I do recommend finding Mollydooker before the Wine Advocate review. Wine Spectator has rated the 2006 Boxer at 90 points. Wine Advocates rating last year created an absolute frenzy over Two Left Feet and Boxer (at the $20 price point).
If you love Aussie fruit bombs…
- Find Mollydooker
- Do the Dooky Shake.
- Cheers!
Since I recommended the wine last week…I wanted to share the inside scoop with you.
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