(This post provided by Wallingford realtors Kris Murphy & Daniela Dombrowski of Keller Williams. They are Wallyhood sponsors.)

I am sure you have all heard by now, the Seattle Real Estate market is incredibly competitive (HUGE UNDERSTATEMENT).  Here is a more localized look at our own neighborhood.  I had to check my figures twice to make sure I was seeing correctly, but as expected our sweet neighborhood is becoming more and more popular.  As a result, inventory of homes for sale is extremely low and our bidding wars are beyond intense.

The statistics provided in this post are hyper-local, capturing …

Wallingford Playfield equipment is scheduled to be replaced this Fall (and will be closed for a while while that happens) due to a termite infestation in the swings. While they’re replacing the swings, they’ll be replacing all the old equipment with metal equipment as well, presumably to avert future termite incursions.

It’s a $400,000 project, and the Parks Department is collecting feedback from park users on what they’d like to see replace the old equipment: something as close as possible to the existing, or take advantage of the change and go for something different?

In the hopes of putting my …

From everything I’ve heard, the Wallingford Farmers Market in Meridian Park burst into full bloom this year: Wallingford turned out in droves both of the last two Wednesdays, with a lines at the produce stands and a park full of families.

But if you didn’t manage to get your produce there, you have another local option every Saturday: City Grown. For the past seven years, they’ve been growing vegetables in their own plot on Eastern Ave N as well as other “land partner” plots throughout Wallingford, Ballard and other neighborhoods, then selling those veggies at their farmstand at 4108 Eastern …

This Saturday, May 26, Cubes Baking Co. (2315 N. 45th St) will be celebrating their one year anniversary in Wallingford, and are having a little party to celebrate, noon – 5 pm, including

Seems worth the trip just to check out their unusually beautiful cakes. Cubes is the work of Kevin Moulder. From their website:

Kevin grew up near San Antonio, TX and …

I’ve always been fascinated with sourdough. With regular bread, you’ve got your flour, your water and your yeast. The yeast comes in a powder from Fleischmann’s or whomever, and it’s yeast: you mix in with the flour and water, you wait for the little yeasties to eat the sugars in the flour, toot out some carbon dioxide bubbles to make your bread fluffy, and you’re good to go, wherever you are. Same flour, same yeast, same bread, give or take.

All around us, though, are literally millions of different microorganisms floating in the air, a tiny micro-ecyosystem, and everywhere it’s …

May Day is an ancient holiday, dating back at least to the days of the Roman Republic, when it was celebrated as part of the Floralia celebration on April 27th. Obviously, they didn’t call it May Day back then, both because it wasn’t May and also because they spoke Latin. It can also be traced back to the Gaelic Beltane celebration, reaching back into the fog of pagan pre-history.

Here in Seattle, several groups of Morris dancers have been celebrating this ancient holiday in the chilly dawn hours at Gas Works Park. Kimberly writes:

Join the Sound and Fury Morris …

The Seattle Police Department announced today that they have made an arrest in the homicide case of Wallingford community leader Lita Byrnes:

SPD Homicide Detectives have arrested a 25-year-old man for the murder of his roommate, a 38-year-old woman, in Wallingford last month.

The arrest in this complex case came after an extensive investigation, working in conjunction with the Washington State Crime Lab and the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

The suspect was arrested early Thursday morning in Seattle and was booked into jail for Investigation of Murder.…