Seattle Real Estate:

Seattle recently made MSN’s list of Top Ten Pet Friendly cities of 2009. This is unsurprising news if you live in the Seattle metro area since you’re used to seeing dogs of all shapes and sizes on sidewalks, in parks, inside shops and even some offices!
According to the list, “These cities have earned their bones [...]

One of the many wonderful things about living in the Seattle area is the fact that such stunning natural sights are in such close striking distance.
Alex and I took a spur of the moment jaunt out to the Olympic peninsula this weekend. We enjoyed the summer weather and took in the sights. Here are photos [...]

What’s the Washington State flower?  I’ll give you three guesses.

In fact, according to a quick web search:
In 1892, before they had the right to vote, Washington women selected the coast rhododendron as the state flower. They wanted an official flower to enter in a floral exhibit at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. [...]

A question from our viewing audience:
“How do you pronounce Rion?”
Alex and I are often asked how to pronounce our last name.  Shortly after we were married, I crafted the following memory device.  It has served us well.
“Rion.  Like Lion, but with an RRrrrrr.”
It almost always gets a laugh and it’s so goofy it helps people remember [...]

Nope.  Being from the Midwest, where the summers are hot and humid, that’s one thing that Alex and I always notice.  Most people assume that, with the reputation for rain, Seattle is a humid place and typically don’t seem to believe you when you tell them, only when they feel it for themselves.
At any rate, [...]

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, it all gets better from here on out.  Today is the winter solstice which means its the shortest day of the year and we can start working our way to those gloriously long summer days. For now, since we’re dreaming of a white Christmas - let it [...]

The Seattle area had our very own Polar Express last night.  It does make things look festive, our Winter Wonderland, but it shut down all the schools!
For those intending to relocate to the area, don’t let the snow scare you away if you hail from a warmer clime.  This is pretty atypical.  I understand we’re setting records [...]

Well, last month if you want to get technical…
Who said the following?
“We in America cherish our homes because they are symbolic of the family…Yet there are too many people in the United States who are not awake to the danger with which home and family in our country is threatened by the world Communist conspiracy.”
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Apparently the Seattle area has “won awards for the clever manner in which they designed our addresses to be easy to find”.  Ahem.  I don’t know about you, but when I’m describing to someone the intersection of 124th Street and 124th Avenue in Totem Lake which is technically Kirkland, I’m not convinced that clever is [...]

Here’s an interesting site I found recently, http://www.walkscore.com/.  According to the site:
Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. Walk Score measures how easy it is to live a car-lite lifestyle—not how pretty the area is for walking.
It [...]