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[Aim]

So glad you loved them as much as I did!! They really are great.

Our alarm went off one day last week. I got the call from ADT, and since I work 5 min away, I opted to come check it myself rather than having them dispatch. None of the entry points had been compromised – the motion sensor went off.

There was a burglary in the area that day. I believe they may have tried our house first, and the motion sensor caught them at the window and the siren scared them off.

I’m so glad to have the security system. I thought it would make me feel trapped, but it doesn’t. I used to have panic attacks in the middle of the night, but I feel secure in knowing that the “stay home” alarm is armed, and nobody’s coming in.

Sheesh, I sound like a commercial. But I’m just being honest.

[gracefredeen]

I spent yesterday pulling weeds. We have them ALL. Morning Glory and dandelions are my nemesis. Evil EVIL stuff! But this shot weed thing is relatively new in our yard. So is it cheaper to buy corn Gluten or Preen do you suppose?

I too find pulling up morning glory roots somewhat satisfying when they come up in large chunks. One year my dear dad was kind enough to rototill a patch of ground where I was going to plant veggies. He did not first clear away the morning Glory, but tilled it into the soil…nicely diced into 1/2″ pieces. Ahh, what a year of weeding THAT was!

I used to have a neighbor whose yard bordered mine. They were very “organic” and let their yard be “wild”. I finally had to get some bionic weedcloth and run it up my fence a bit to keep out the morning glory vines. They eventually found their way through the cloth. These weeds are surviors! I guess I have to admire their talent as I curse them!

[Diana]

Hayes/Kirks in Burien is where I go but I’ve learned to plan ahead for what I need and call ahead to see if they have it. They are a little disorganized but I try to cut them some slack as they are a small family business. In this economic climate it’s hard for a small business to carry a lot of inventory. They are nice folks, know their stuff, and try to get to know you if you are a regular.

[jwws]

sandybeach,

Noticed the signs missing as well, how interesting this happened right after 2-3 people (who feel they are above the law) were ticketed for having dogs in the school yard. If I were with the City I’d look to the ticketed folks as the culprits!

[Sue]

JoB, I don’t know about that credit union, but if you’re looking for a BECU near you, there’s one in the Safeway on Roxbury.

If you do want to join Watermark, here’s their eligibility page: https://www.watermarkcu.org/html/join.htm – if you live in Washington, you’re eligible (same as BECU).

[JSR]

JoB: congratulations! I don’t know anything about Watermark. Ours is Waterfront, which is located in the business park across from the entrance to the steel mill. (down past AllStar Fitness) Waterfront FCU, takes, I believe, workers in the marine industry and some other union workers. See who can join: http://www.waterfrontfcu.com/about/who.asp

[AmyP421]

Compass USA is a for profit organization with a low profit margin that mostly goes to support AILI (American International Learning Institute). Every person in the Compass office has a true heart for promoting relationships between cultures & believes whole heartedly in the program goals. They desire to hire staff with those same passions. If a person is merely looking for money, this is not the place for them, though it is a little supplemental income. I am looking for somebody who would enjoy spending a few weeks this summer with some Japanese girls visiting the USA for the first time. Of course teachers & other school employees make more during the school year, but many would like a fun opportunity to make a little bit of extra money while they are off during the summer. I can say this because my husband is a teacher & would actually love to do the assistant position himself if we didn’t have children at home that he will be watching while I am with the students.

When I was growing up, my family hosted students & it was an incredible experience that goes beyond the warm & fuzzy feelings. I learned so much about the Japanese culture, & my worldview was broadened each time I spent a summer with a different student. I agree that it would be reasonable to assume that they were from rich or “affluent” families, but they were actually just from your average, hard-working family. The fun times we had with them are some of my favorite summer memories. We still keep in touch with some of the students today. My parents volunteered our home because they wanted us to have that cultural experience & they couldn’t afford for our whole family to travel out of the country. Now I am a mom to 2 little boys, & I intentionally pursued Compass USA because I wanted to bring this program to W. Seattle so that my kids can have the same opportunity.

[Kimberley]

We’ve contacted other security system companies, but they charge an arm and a leg for non-wired systems. After reading Aim’s rave for Freedom Systems, we contacted them (way back when) and after working with them (they didn’t charge us an arm and a leg for a non-wired system), I’m happy to say Jimmie just left and we have a brand new security system. Freedom Systems were a delight to work with and were extremely flexible with our schedule and even worked with the system that came with our house. They went above and beyond the call of duty and were a pleasure to work with. They answered all of our questions, researched different options for us, were more than helpful, extremely knowledgeable and are local to West Seattle.

The first time Jimmie knocked on my door, he had his business card in my hand before I’d even extended mine to shake his. He’s extremely professional and immediately puts his clients at ease.

And yes, I told them Amy G sent me :O)

[Irukandji]

From another source to whom I sent the photo link: “well, my guess would be- almost anything in the Sedum family from a ‘Roseum’ group….but what is most spectacular is this photo… It’s amazingly clear…kind of art/science all at once!”

[anonyme]

I accidentally found a good way to deal with “morning glory” and similar invasives. I tried pulling, cutting, and spraying vinegar to no avail. When I bought my house there was a serious infestation, so bad that the walls were filled with morning glory vines all the way up into the attic. Then a few years ago I had way too many wood chips, and dumped a good six inches onto the side yard where, coincidentally, the morning glory was most established. I discovered that MG, like bamboo, is lazy. Instead of tunneling down into hard soil where it is difficult to dig or pull, the ‘vines’ snake through the soft, decomposing wood chips. It is then very easy work to pull 8-10 foot lengths all the way to the source and remove them completely. It’s actually kind of satisfying work, and there has been a dramatic decline in the number of new shoots.

[dawsonct]

I’m already surrounded by a man-made chemical soup at home, I feel the benefit I derive from planting and eating ULTRA-local offsets whatever chemicals I am already being exposed to.

I think a few micrograms of plastic poured over my garden every year is probably better for me and the environment than all the petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides being used by corporate family-farm destroying mono-agriculturalists in our country and around the World.

[dawsonct]

One nice thing about shotweed (bittercress) and dandelion, is they ARE edible. the bittercress, which isn’t all that bitter, is a nice addition to Winter salads. Dandelion greens are great with a warm vinaigrette, you can make wine from the flowers and buds, and the roots can be roasted, ground, and made into a coffee-like beverage. Personally, I’ve only eaten the leaves (YUM!) but have had an interest in trying the wine since I read Ray Bradbury’s book.

Horsetail is high in silica and can be used as an abrasive. I don’t know anyone who has.

Don’t Call Them Morning Glory (which are a nice, non-invasive annual flower) are actually Field Bind Weed, or Convolvulus arvensis. It is a nasty, nasty weed, and my neighbors haven’t taken care of their yard in years, so I am constantly fighting off the invasion. Either I cover my yard with plastic for the next few years, or I pull constantly. I spend so much of my garden time trying to stay ahead of that stuff, it kind of tempers the joy of planting and cultivating worthwhile plants.

http://www.pesticide.org/bindweed.html

Manual eradication seems to work as good, or better than pesticides. Get pulling.

[miws]

Duckitude, the responses you get are precisely why I don’t bother confronting people with off leash dogs.

Admittedly, I don’t like confrontation, but realistically, I figure 99.87695284% of the time, my informing the irresponsible party would be met with being totally ignored, laughed at or commented to in a way that suggests it’s no big deal, an (as in the one case you cite) *uck (not duck) you, or to a much lesser extent, a punch in the nose or wherever.

So, I just try to keep an eye on the dog, and only should I see a situation about to occur between the off leash dog and another dog, person, or wildlife, I will then confront them, and probably much stronger than I would merely seeing the dog off leash without any immediate conflict.

And I would damn well be a witness against an off leasher, if an incident did occur.

Not too far off topic, I recently saw on local TV, a story on “dog scootering” where people have their leashed (to the scooter) dogs pull them around on scooters, similar to Alaskan sled dogs.

Great way to give your dog a good run in parks while obeying leash laws, right? Sure it is!

However, they showed the guy they profiled in the story doing such, and I’m thinking; “What happens if the guy falls of his scooter?”

Guess what happens next? Yup. The scooter gets away from the guy, and the dog(s) (IIRC he had two) going running off, dragging the scooter, towards this poor woman that is actually holding onto her leashed dog(s) leash(es) and pulls back on them a bit startled, and looking like she’s afraid a dog attack is about to happen.

Scooter guy, while trying to get up and go after his dog(s) has the gall to bark (so to speak) out alomost as a command “Grab them! Grab them!”, as if it were the woman’s responsibility to mind his dogs, and of course, he laughs the whole thing off.

Mike

[Duckitude]

I note that the WSB has deleted the creator of this thread’s first post. In case people are wondering, the post basically identified a residence “allegedly” responsible for calling Animal Control on lawbreakers. Thank you WSB!

But, more importantly, why do lawbreakers find it so easy to try to set up retaliation, or to actually retaliate themselves, when they are given feedback about their carelessness, either in person or by Animal Control? What is that attitude? I can tell you, it ain’t duckitude.

I experience retaliatory crap almost once a week from people who have their dogs off leash at Lowman Beach Park. I don’t talk to those lawbreakers anymore unless their dog ends up chasing a couple of this neighborhood’s adored semi-feral cats in the backyard (IN THE BACKYARD) of my next door neighbor, OR, if I see a dog so out of control it is a safety hazard (LIKE ATTACKING A LEASHED DOG ON THE SIDEWALK).

To do otherwise, would be to spend my entire day talking to snobby, entitled, unaware idiots all day long (that’s how many there are). So, I gave up except for “special” cases.

However, in the special case category here’s a couple. 1: Woman has dog off leash, it chases my neighbors cat up ON (that’s right ON) my neighbor’s porch as I am visiting with some other people just 10 feet away. The cat jumps off the banister of the porch where it was sunning itself, and the dog knocks a very nice pot with flowers in it over and breaks it into a thousand pieces.

At that point, I walk over to the woman who is basically doing nothing to recapture her dog and ask if she thinks she shouldn’t knock on the door since she owes the owner of the house money for her dog breaking the flower pot and creating a mess, etc. She gives me attitude, like, “oh, I see, cause and effect…” What? She should have initiated such an effort herself, but, no, it’s just a dog having fun… uh… unbelievable!

The next sour sample is a guy who is clear down on the beach and has let his dog just roam willy-nilly through the park. The dog aggressively approaches a leashed dog and causes a mess of entanglement for the owner of the leashed dog, who cannot control her dog AND get the other dog away at the same time. She trips and falls off the curb (she was on the sidwalk, walking her dog legally and mannerly).

I was outside in working on my garden. I chase the loose dog down as the owner of the loose dog approaches. This guy is a total idiot. When advised about what his dog has just done, he says “*uck you!” We have a little heated conversation and he wanders off, but looks back often to see where I am returning to (a car, a house?)

These two brats… just typical for this area at Lowman Beach Park. Both incidents in the last week.

It’s amazing what an unfortunate number of dog owners think are dog’s rights and privileges and who are really quite out of control. Welcome to America, where we all seem to want to grow up to be brats…. ugh.

[JoB]

JSR…

yesterday i left Bank of America with cash after closing my account and went in search of the BeCu branch i thought was in Burien. It was a Watermark.

i didn’t stop because i didn’t know anything about that credit union. What group of depositors do they accept? And what do you like about them?

[JoB]

WSever

dogs without collars and licenses are difficult to return to their owners if they run off… or are lured off.

wearing a collar and tags is a safety measure for your pups. Mine wear theirs 24/7.

[celeste17]

Another idea would be to get him a gift certificate from Cross Cut Hardwoods. My dad loved this place. They deal with all types of wood many exotic. They are just off of First Ave S (south from Spokane) near Daniel Smith Art Store. If you need more information I beleive that they have a web site. They might be able to give you more information on the router that you are asking about. One year for Christmas I went into them and told them I had about 25.00 to spend and I wanted to get some wood for some misc. projects and they just let me roam around the store and I could pick up pieces of wood and they would cut pieces for me. I put them all in a bag with the gift certificate and he loved it.

[sam-c]

(are recommendations outside of West Seattle ok?)

5th anniversary is quickly approaching. husband has mentioned desire for a router to work on home projects. I don’t know the difference in types of routers, but he’s mentioned using it for trim work, chamfers, I think, things like that.

here is a description from wikipedia:

The spindle router is positioned at the finer end of the scale of work done by a moulding spindle. That is to say it is able to cut grooves, edge moulding, and chamfer or radius the edge of a piece of wood. It is also possible to use it for cutting some joints.

does anyone know of a router that sounds like it would fit that description that they are really happy with, and would recommend? (brand, model #, if it would be easy to find at McLendon’s or Lowe’s ) thanks ! I am not good at picking out tools and want to surprise without fishing for info.

or any other ideas for a good “wood” gift if the router doesn’t work out?

[inactive]

Speaking of violent weeds :)….anybody know what the tiny white ones are. My back yard is currently thick with them. I’ve been busy elsewhere. I think I have a weed book somewhere, but can’t locate it. I just have always called them artillery weeds. You know – they have multiple tiny white heads on frail little stems. Sinister, proliferating buggers, they are.

[WSB]

Second time today, rule violation for including identifying information of a third party. Thanks to those who flagged the post. Leaving the rest of the discussion up, at least for now, since even without the o/p it seems obvious what it was about, from everyone’s reaction. PS I doubt many read this far into our story about last night’s Alki Community Council meeting, but the ACC is planning to step up its advocacy against leash violations at the beach – they voted to send the city a letter, for starters.

[Irukandji]

Those little poppers have nothing on the ‘La Cholla’ cacti we were told about and avoided down in Arizona.

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These bastards have needles, yes, but the needles are wrapped in paper-like sheaths. the sheaths sense movement and, when they do, trigger the needles to shoot out. One goes and others are triggered. I’ve heard from victims of the La Cholla that this can happen even from what you think is a safe distance, and the needles are excruciatingly painful to remove.

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Pity those poor little popper weeds and their attempt at assault and spawn. They’re kind of cute!

[hammerhead]

Feeding the raccoons has nothing to do with distemper/parvo I just want to be very clear on that it is a virus.

I feed raccoons along with my ferals. I did rescue a dying raccoon from one of my feeding stations and it was confirmed distemper last summer.

[westcoastdeb]

Now for my turn — but its not about BOA’s thousands of departments.

I banked with them all through high school, when I had a part time job and not too much money in the bank. Around rolls payday. I head down to the bank and have them deposit my check, but I make sure to tell them to deposit it as cash. Several times. This was a Friday, and 4th of July weekend. I spend my money like usual on the weekend, a few dollars here and there. Come Tuesday (the next day the bank was open) I am overdrawn by like $300. Why? The teller I delt with did not deposit the check as cash, so i had 5 or 6 overdraft fees. I was livid, but BOA refused to do anything to help me out — not reduce my fees or cancel them altogether or anything else. I gave up and quit banking with them.

Fast forward to 3 years ago. I decided to give them another shot. While they have been decent this time around, I get tired of being told one thing on the phone and another in person. I had a personal banker tell me I would be credited 35 dollars for making 3 billpayer transactions out of my new account (which I was setting up as a bill only account, so this sounded great!), and then when I never recieved the credit was told that it was not available to customers who already had an account, even if it was a new one. I have also been told over the phone that all I had to do to get x, y or z service was to go into the local branch and they would help me out. I go into the branch and they dont know how to do the service.

last complaint, then off my soapbox. I have NEVER had a BOA card come in the mail on time when I requested it. It’s always longer than they say or they never mailed it or some other thing. Must wait 2 more weeks, they will have it mailed to the branch, etc. Even when I verify my address when I set it all up.

Deb

[JayDee]

I switched to BECU precisely because BofA regarded customers as sheep to be sheared, not because they actually cared for my business. I asked the local branch to stop other parts of BofA from calling me 2-3 times a week to solicit business from me (Of course I had to look the 1-888 number on the internet to know this as they didn’t list a BofA name on Caller ID). Sure, no problem. The calls continued. I have $$$$ in my savings, but my checking runs low due to a switch in an automatic withdrawal. I unknowingly bounce 5 transactions. $125. “Oh, you need our BofA credit card linked to your account to prevent an overdraft…” despite the fact that my “linked” savings had plenty of money. And yes, I told them this at the time.

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So I am a new BECU member and like it (except for the soon-to-be-gone Safeway ATM, and the fact there isn’t a Trader Joes going in there).

[flowerpetal]

Are you sure you need it? If it is company monitored, such as Brinks, they are supposed to cover that.

Here’s a contact number and name:

Terry Boyle at (206) 684-8406

Terry is in the Department of Executive Administration and you would call that Dept. because this is a licensing/permit issue.

Good luck.