Here’s your reminder that this weekend is the Fremont Fair and Solstice Parade, and Mother Nature has blessed us with a gorgeous weekend to enjoy it with.

The Solstice Parade kicks off at NW 39th St and Leary Way NW at 1 pm on Saturday with the famous Naked Bicycle ride (captured in quirkiness by local filmmaker Dan McComb in Beyond Naked), and then tumbles, struts and thumps through Fremont to Gas Works Park. Watch for “Baby Z”, now in his seventh year stilting in the parade (and long past babyhood…that’s him at right, five years ago). Folks start …

These are desperate times for those fleeing their home countries for safety and freedom. In the face of the stunning injustices the president’s government has been inflicting on those in need, many of us are wondering what can one person do.

Despite the walls going up (literal or figurative), there are still organizations working to welcome newly arrived refugees into our community. World Relief Seattle is one such non-profit, and I’ve had the pleasure of providing temporary housing to a number of families they are re-settling from Afghanistan, Sudan and other countries here in Seattle. They’re fabulous people who provide …

Growing up, my family was not particularly religious. I learned Hebrew from a private tutor, alongside the children of a couple family friends, but only stepped foot in a synagogue once or twice throughout my childhood. My family was part of a group of similarly-minded Jewish families that would gather in a church basement on high holidays and celebrate together, sans rabbi, children chasing each other down the thinly carpeted halls and across the linoleum floors. My bar mitzvah was held in a rented hall, and the catered food was perhaps not kosher.

Nonetheless, Friday nights often found us at …

Matt from the Pacific Northwest Shop (4411 Wallingford Ave N, a Wallyhood sponsor) writes:

I’m taking advantage of my publisher privilege to invite you all to visit my yard sale today. Sunday, June 3rd only, 8 am – 3 pm, lots of good stuff, including:

Come on by today, Sunday June 3 between 8 am and 3 pm, 4065 4th Ave NE, right across from the John Stanford School.

The free pile …

(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 …