My husband just got back from walking the dogs on the trail by our house & said one of the other walkers got wakened up this morning by an earthquake! Of course my response was "Earthquake, I didn't feel any earthquake - was he sure?" But hopping on the internet I see that yep, I apparently sl
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01/30/2009
The vitality of Thurston County is tremendously enhanced by the presence in the community of FOUR colleges! We are lucky enough to be able to complete a bachelor's degree, a master's degree in quite a few disciplines, learn a trade, enhance our leisure time with fun new learning, improve our fit
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01/22/2009
I think one of the wonderful recreational things in the Olympia area is the huge expanse of paved walking trails that have been created along former Weyerhauser log transport railroad lines. We have lived immediately adjacent to the trail now in two different houses (yes, we chose the land to bu
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01/19/2009
There will be a wonderful free celebration happening in Olympia on Monday January 19th to honor Martin Luther King Jr. It is at the Washington Center for Performing Arts at 4:00 PM and will feature singing, dancing, music and other performances. I have attended this in other years and thoroughl
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01/18/2009
Sometimes the local knowledge of a real estate agent can save some grief for buyers (and sellers). I was thinking about this the last couple of days after first an out of state seller asked me to go make sure their house hadn't been affected by the floods they had been reading about, and then a
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01/17/2009