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[squareeyes]

That 3M Fur Fighter is a welcome addition to my war on cat fur. While the pet hair sponge still works better on my area rugs (IMO), the 3M Fur Fighter is far superior to the pet hair roller on clothing.

[Irukandji]

Hey FullTilt! What’s the current status of kulfi and/or Rumball in Eggnog ice creams?

[erika]

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[cruiser]

This is ridiculous, where the hell are my socks???

I think they might be downstairs. But with all this arctic weather how can I reach them? Maybe I should just stay bare foot?

I was thinking maybe I could use the stairs but they maybe still slippy from the dog. The dog slipped earlier and she has 4×4 (four leg drive)….but no chains. The kid slipped earlier too, but I put that down to the peppermint schnapps.

I’d thought of going out onto the back deck and walking around to the front of the house, through the front door …..but maybe it hasn’t been sanded yet, despite all the property tax I pay!!!

I mean there’s nothing on King5 about my yard so what the hell am I gonna do?? The city has abandoned me,the president(both of them)have abandoned me arghhhhhhhhhh.

I mean am I supposed to grow a pair down below and think for myself?

ps I’m trying to pry my tongue away from my cheek (it’s stuck too but that’s another story)

pps send more peppermint schnapps,the kid will be back sooooooon

[Sue]

Reminds me of Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel – they used to send him to the worst spots in the country where anyone in their right mind would’ve evacuated. I used to joke that if you ever were out and about and saw Jim Cantore in your neighborhood, you should start running out of town!

[JoB]

a new battery shouldn’t be freezing up… so if you have a newer battery causing you those kinds of problems, it’s probably a good idea to have the charging system checked out.

unless. of course.. you left a light on:)

i had a car with an engine warmer when i was in minnesota. bought it in bimidji where they are standard:)

as for ice crystals in the gas… i just fill with premium if i know the weather is going to be really cold since the higher octane usually takes care of the problem.

remember when we had carburetors and you kept a can of high octane in the trunk to spray in the carburetor to start it? now that was fun…

The kid’s father dangled his cigarette too close once.. luckily all he got was good fright (i was happily married to him at the time) but it was a pretty spectacular fireball ;~>

Engines arent’ the same any more… Now i look under the hood and wonder where i check the oil:)

[JenV]

Jim Foreman…aka Parka Boy…aka Danger Jim – field reporter extraordinaire for King5. Known for his propensity for reporting from the coldest, wettest, most dangerous, etc conditions and locations, usually sporting a large parka with a faux-fur hood and being extra-super dramatic about everything, blowing weather conditions WAY out of proportion.

[JoB]

Kayleigh2…

if you must kill.. you should honor what you kill.. and that includes using all of it..

Strained bacon grease from a well raised home cured pig makes great soap… and candles too…

mellaw…janS…and peaches…

THANK YOU! i had forgotten what a little bacon grease can do to greens…

cook a couple of strips of bacon in a big pan.. remove the bacon and quickly cook up spinach in the grease .. (i suspect with this bacon.. you won’t need more than one strip…)

then add the crumbled bacon to the spinach and some sliced almonds and a touch of salt…

I am sorry Kayleigh, but there is something that bacon does to vegetables that is simply sinful:)

[littlebrowndog]

OK, just in case—the meter is that thing out on the parking strip? My husband said he thought you need a special tool for that. I haven’t opened the lid to confirm that, but thought you guys would be able to say.

By the way, Shed22, I am also at 49th and Dawson. Should we make a pact for mutual rescue? You’d think I would have met you over the years (and maybe you are one of the few neighbors I am on nodding terms with) but we have a pretty solid tall fence to minimize our dogs’ noisy fence running, so for a few years now I have been less likely to see neighbors while doing yard work.

[pigeonmom]

[miws]

I would guess that this has been handled by now, in some manner, but I agree with those that said to shut it off at the meter.

Back during the snow/deep freeze of Dec ’90, a similar thing happened a couple doors down from where I lived in at the time.

The neighbor was gone on a long Christmas vacation, and the hose bibb (faucet) on the back of his house broke and was spewing water.(For however long it had been going at the time, it actually created kind of a cool ice sculpture!).

I went ahead and shut it off at the meter, and hoped he would appreciate it, rather than being upset,(didn’t really know the guy at the time). I not only was concerned about the waste of water, and how it might affect his bill, but thought of the possibility that a pipe in the house may burst as well.

Turns out, he was quite appreciative. :-)

Mike

[WSB]

There are two factors at play here, and again, I’m speaking from having been a TV news manager for 20-plus years (show producer, then executive producer, then assistant news director).

#1 – We really do have the worst conditions in town. So there’s really not any place else to be in Seattle. As I wrote on the HP, I was downtown tonight and was shocked at how there’s really no ice, no snow down there … this is a lot like the early 2007 icefest, we got whacked worst. If Queen Anne had gotten much ice, they’d all be over there – much more convenient to where the stations are (Seattle Center x 2, and the other two a tiny bit further north).

#2 – The fact that we together (you guys and us) are providing minute-to-minute, detailed coverage here means they don’t even have to try hard to figure out where to go. In the pre-neighborhood-news-site days, you would just send a crew out and tell them to FIND an icy street. With a site like ours, piece of cake, all they have to do is read the post/comment thread (and our logs show, they all do, even when there isn’t a big story like this – it’s nothing personal, before the digital days, we all sat around in TV newsrooms and read the paper, TV news departments don’t staff enough people to do lots of original news gathering).

Bonus factor – since WS is a large part of the city and convenient to downtown, there of course are TV people who live over here, and so they also have firsthand knowledge of the troublespots (photographers and producers as well as reporters and anchors). I am always continually surprised as I continue to make more contacts on behalf of WSB, at how many government-agency PR people and actual government officials live over here, beyond the obvious ones you’ve already heard of, like the mayor.

[waterworld]

Jameson: I’m sorry you didn’t feel it was within your rights to turn off the water at the meter, although clearly calling SPU was the next best thing. A while back, we were having a sprinkler system installed in our yard. The crew installed some heads improperly, and late that afternoon, we had twin geysers at the top of a short flight of stairs leading from the sidewalk to our front yard. Of course, we were oblivious to the event. A kind neighbor saw what was happening and turned off the supply at the meter. By then, we had a mudflow and our steps were severely damaged, but at least it didn’t get any worse. We are eternally grateful to the neighbor who came to our rescue that day!

[mellaw6565]

Heartwarming story – my partner’s mother lives in Sequim and when she was at her kitchen window this a.m. there was a hummingbird chirping and banging at the window. She saw that the feeder was frozen and went outside to get it to defrost it. The hummingbird followed her all the way to the sliding door, waited for her there while she defrosted the feeder and made new food, and then literally sat on the feeder bar while she took it all the way back across the porch to hang it. She said it was so desperate to get the food and she felt so bad that she baby talked to it the whole time and assured it that it would NEVER happen again.

I thought it was a really cute story:) New Motto: Feed those cold hummingbirds!!

[RainyDay1235]

….that all the news stations are spending nearly all their weather forecasts focusing on West Seattle? We’re famous! :)

I swear, I got to work okay withmy 4WD – but now I’m afraid I might run into all the newscasters slipping and sliding on the streets around here!

[Bayou]

I’m curled up with the comforts of potato soup tonight but mmmmm, “collie” greens. Peaches, that makes me homesick.

[DebbieD]

Grandparents raising their grandkids find support among peers

Atlantic Street Center and Senior Services are among 13 agencies that benefit from The Seattle Times Fund for the Needy — now in its 30th year.

By Marc Ramirez

Seattle Times staff reporter

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Vilma Carver is raising her grandchildren after their mother died.

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THE CAMPAIGN, benefiting 13 agencies, is now in its 30th year.

Senior Services: Provides resource referral and caregiver support to about 55,000 clients in King County, nearly half of them low-income. The 41-year-old agency, best known for its Meals on Wheels program, has an annual budget of $15 million.

Atlantic Street Center: Focuses on youth and their families, providing mental-health counseling, after-school tutoring, English classes and more. Serves about 3,000 mostly low-income people. Founded in 1910, the agency has a $3.2 million budget.

Source: Senior Services, Atlantic Street Center

VILMA CARVER WAS used to spending lots of time with her grandkids, but when their mother died unexpectedly at age 29, she suddenly found herself doing it full time.

Since then, the diminutive hotel service worker has had to relearn how to juggle child-rearing with work schedules and maintaining a home. Her Beacon Hill house remains strewn with items and boxes she’s been meaning to send to relatives in the Philippines.

“It’s as if I started all over again,” says Carver, who now raises Kirsten, 15, and Rusty, 10. “I feel like I have no life. My life is them.”

Were it not for the grandparents’ kinship group she was part of, she might have lost it. The group of fellow grandparents raising children, hosted by Seattle’s Atlantic Street Center and supported by Senior Services, gave her a circle of people she could confide in. “Whatever is in here,” she says, covering her heart, “you can tell to them, because all of you have problems.”

Both Atlantic Street Center and Senior Services benefit from The Seattle Times Fund for the Needy — now in its 30th year — and are members of the King County Kinship Collaboration (KCKC). According to the group, more than 18,000 people in King County are raising other relatives’ children. Many are grandparents such as Carver, who left her native Philippines in 1995 and now, at 58, raises her grandchildren with the help of her boyfriend.

U.S. Census figures indicate that about 2.5 million grandparents nationwide provide most basic needs for one or more grandchildren. For such caregivers, the challenges go beyond personal and logistical ones.

There is bureaucracy to deal with — for example, how to enroll kids in school as neither parent nor legal guardian. And because many grandparents don’t have legal custody, estranged parents can re-emerge at any time, causing even more stress.

Then, the financial challenges: Most of the program’s grandparents are caring for more than one child while living on a fixed income. Many have found themselves unable to apply for state funds because the money has already been awarded to parents who apply, then dump the kids on their relatives.

“These are parents who are parenting the second time around,” says program assistant Fai Matthews of Atlantic Street Center, which hosts the weekly grandparent get-togethers.

“A lot give up much of their lives and time to take care of these children, and they don’t get any help. They’re spending all this extra money for water, electricity and food. So they find themselves in some really dire straits. Some go to food banks. Some lose their homes. It’s a great, great struggle.”

As the agency with the largest number of kinship caregivers, Atlantic Street Center hosts the weekly grandparents’ group at the Rainier Community Center.

On the Thursday before Thanksgiving, Carver and about 15 to 25 other grandparents showed up for what was meant to be a traditional turkey meal. But when the cook called in sick, Matthews quickly grilled up some chicken and bratwursts, threw together some mashed potatoes and deviled eggs, and the group was good to go.

Alternating weeks feature guest speakers — counselors, legal advisers — while the rest of the time, Matthews holds roundtables on random topics. “Last week we talked about Obama’s presidency and what it means for them and their children,” she says.

Matthews herself has been both a foster parent and a kinship caregiver, having helped raise her nephew from the time he was 3. (He’s now 23.) And she knows firsthand the drive that leads these elders to rise to the occasion: When her daughter’s marriage splintered, Matthews took her in, along with the grandkids.

“I ended up $20,000 in debt,” she says. “… They had nowhere to go. But it was more important to take care of these kids and my daughter than it was the material things. It was automatic pilot for Mama.”

Similar situations spawned Senior Services’ efforts, which now encompass about 500 people annually of many ages — anyone caring for a related child not his or her own.

There are aunts caring for nieces and nephews, cousins caring for cousins. Atlantic Street Center, meanwhile, had run a grandparents’ group since the mid-1990s, but eventually, Matthews says, “we realized that the grandparents had all these kids they were caring for.”

Thus was born King County Kinship Collaboration grandparents’ group. “Sometimes we’re just offering respite for the grandparents,” says Senior Services’ Greg Townsend, who oversees that agency’s caregiver outreach and support program. “They’ll burn out if they don’t get some time just to be with another adult.”

None receive the type of financial help that foster parents do, he notes, though they often share the same responsibilities.

Foster parents, on average, get $550 per child monthly, along with health coverage and child care. People caring for other relatives’ children, on the other hand, must apply for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) funds, which amount to much less and don’t include child care.

The county kinship group administers a support fund of about $200,000 to help these grandparents and other caregivers with onetime expenses such as clothing, extra beds or a rent payment.

“A lot of these grandparents are in serious pain,” Matthews says. “With the economy the way it is, it’s even more serious.”

Agencies are hurting, too. While certain funding sources are holding steady, Senior Services Executive Director Denise Klein says some private foundations have already signaled they won’t be able to give as much this year.

Atlantic Street Center’s Darcy McInnis says the agency won’t know what cuts are necessary until next year’s grant process.

In the meantime, Carver finds joy in attending her granddaughter’s performances with a Filipino dance group.

“At least whatever struggle I have, when they have a concert, I feel good,” she says.

But when things get hard, she can count on the grandparents’ group. After her daughter died, she was a mess. Other group members helped her get through it.

“They were there every night, praying and holding hands with me,” she says. “They are like family.”

Marc Ramirez: 206-464-8102 or mramirez@seattletimes.com

[villagegreen]

I grew up in Minnesota where 20 below zero temps (not windchills, actual temps) are commonplace and no one wears fur (or, I guess, not that I noticed).

It really isn’t necessary. There are many other fabrics in this day and age that will keep you just as warm as fur (actually warmer). Plus, I don’t know a lot about how they ‘harvest’ fur, but don’t they skin animals alive in certain countries? That’s just sickening.

But, I promise not to throw paint at you. However, if I see someone walking down the street here in WS with fur coat, hat, mittens, mufflers, and boots I may burst out laughing simply because I imagine that might look quite ridiculous.

[WSB]

City Light says 200 people are without power – well, “customers,” which means homes/businesses – between Graham/Webster/39th/47th, and that crews are “patroling to find the cause.”

[Patrick]

Kitty litter’s great for back end ballast in the car and gritty material to create traction under tires. Salt is still best on walks IMHO. One year I could only find some ham cure salt.

The front walk smelled wonderful.

[hopey]

I just got back from the Roxbury/509 route. NO PROBLEMS. Seriously. About 80% of the pavement is dry. Once out on the main streets, I did not encounter any of the thick, treacherous ice which currently blankets the side streets in my neighborhood. I had absolutely no trouble with the grade inbetween 35th and White Center. The grade between White Center and Olson Way had a bit of snow and ice on it, but only a thin layer and very manageable. The grade down to Myers Way was completely cleared and dry, as was all of 509 and 518.

The real issue seems to be getting out of the neighborhood side streets. Once you are out, it’s not a big deal.

[flowerpetal]

I’m thinking I should change my avatar to something more seasonal. Trenton is quite the ice slide. The hill up from the post office at Westwood is particularly entertaining. In fact the KOMO news truck has been parked with cameras poised for almost two hours. Looks to me like there have been plenty-o stupid driving deeds upon the hill but not newsworthy enough I guess. Does someone want to be on the news?

[Cait]

This is Seattle, so people are going to assume that it’s fake (because if people are wearing fur in Seattle, generally it is.) Tell people it’s fake, don’t call attention to the fact that you’re wearing it and avoid opening nights at theaters.

I would never wear or buy fur myself, but people need to realize that this is a cultural/generational difference in our society and not a reason to throw paint. If you feel that strongly get involved in an organization like PETA and ACTUALLY make a difference instead of engaging in personal property damage and assault.

[Ken]

Well now let’s make this a discussion.

Animals raised for fur are no different from those raised for food except they are sold in different stores.

There are still trappers in parts of the northwest. This is not exactly Hollywood yet.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/game/trapping/index.htm

I am as hardheaded a Dem as you will find but I still don’t subscribe to every fringe you will find in the big tent.

I own guns, I would wear fur if it was cold enough and I could afford it.

I eat meat and wear leather and have made both pork sausage and elk chili from scratch, so a matter of degree is not going to turn me into a hypocrite.

I was attacked by the carrot for supporting a political candidate that it seems was insufficiently pacifist.

Ain’t life strange sometimes.

[CB]

Make a batch of homemade buttermilk biscuits and dredge them in melted bacon fat, both sides, before baking.