my cat won’t even let me get the boogers from her eyes, let alone prick her with acupuncture needles! :P
Maybe acupuncture makes them taste better – if massages work for cows! (Kobe beef, ya’ll.)
On a Porcupine it is…. :)
accupuncture on animals?!? this is a joke right??
Try updating your JAVA…it’s usually the culprit.
It’s not just this one apartment building. It’s the vast majority of Seattlites.
Walking the dog has been an adventure the last few days. We typically walk about 1 – 1.5 miles every morning. Along our usual route, I counted two other homes (besides my own) that had bothered to clear their sidewalks or put down sand. And I almost ended up on my butt more than once. For the most part, walking on the parking strips was safer.
But this is just the attitude here. On Sunday, when I was clearing the sidewalks, I had two people walk by and dismiss my efforts. One lady even said “Why bother? It’s just going to melt off in a few days. You’re just wasting your time.” I’ve encountered this attitude in other years when, once again, I was one of the few people who bothered to shovel the sidewalks.
On Sunday morning, with the cold weather and powder snow, all it took was a broom. Not a shovel. Not salt. No special equipment or supplies. Just a broom. It’s not that difficult.
And I understand that there are some people who are not physically capable of clearing their own walks. But really… 2 homes out of the 50+ I walked past? Are 96% of all Seattlites physically incapable? Do they not understand insurance liability? Or the law? Or common sense?
OK. Enough of my rant.
A dear friend of mine as a new website.
http://www.pathwithpaws.com. She does accupuncture on animals and other types of healings with animals. Think of it as blog for animals. Telling stories exchanging ideas and stuff.
check it out. I just logged a great story about my pit rescuing a kitten. YES A PIT not attacking something
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattle911/archives/157141.asp
Complain to SDOT.
It might work but who knows. I have not dealt with an SDOT employee who could think their way out of a wet paper bag or gives a rats patoot about the safety of pedestrians, but I am sure I have not met all of them.
section 15.48.010 of the Seattle Municipal Code:
It is the responsibility of the owner or occupant of private property to remove snow and ice on the sidewalks abutting his or her property in a timely manner and, if practical, prevent its becoming or remaining in an icy, ridged, uneven or humped condition or in a condition which is potentially hazardous to users of the public sidewalks.
“The penalty for non-compliance is $250 for the first citation and up to $500 for subsequent citations.”
— Seattle Department of Transportation spokesman Rick Sheridan
While most people have been good about de-icing, the sidewalk along SW Alaska adajent to the Siberay Apts has a section of solid ice that is impossible to circumnavigate. Contacted the property managers who have done nothing! Please be careful on the section closes to the alley – water run off has frozen into a sheet of solid ice.
I hate to admit it but I have a Rainbow. You know, that one you see at the home show. However, I love it. It takes animal hair from the furniture, the carpets, the drapes, everything. Plus, I have had no flea problems since I got it, they get sucked up!
It sucks into a water reservoir so there is no smell released, no dust released, no pollen released. There is no smell unless you add it to the water – cinnamon, whatever.
It’s also a wet vac so you can mop the floors and then dry them. I have a carpet cleaning attachment too.
OK. So they are ridiculously expensive. I’ve had mine for about twenty years. In that time I have never needed any servicing at all. Hmmmm. . . Clean my own carpets and furniture, no fleas, wet and dry vac, also can dust, be a blower, can be run to clean the air of pollen or dust or smells. . . I think I got my money’s worth!!
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.
Hey FullTilt! What’s the current status of kulfi and/or Rumball in Eggnog ice creams?
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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
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!
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:)
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.
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:)
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.
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
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.
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!
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!!
….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!
