I didn’t get off our property today. The back alley was (and still is) too icy and it was just too darned cold! I hadn’t used my backyard as a new place of today, so here it is. The photo is of my two cairn terriers that were very hopeful about a walk.
I didn’t get anywhere for my new place of the day today because the weather was so incredibly awful! But I did take this photo out my work window. The feeder was empty this morning, but I trudged out in the snow and filled it up. About an hour later there were a dozen starlings fighting over the food. And then a lovely flicker appeared and chanced all the starlings away and happily ate alone.
Wilson High School is one of the five, large traditional high schools in the Tacoma School District. Per the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public instruction, the school’s ratio of boys to girls is about 50/50 and the student population is 1,345 students. Wilson has a free and reduced lunch rate of 34.1%, which is lower than the district’s rate as a whole of 57%.
1202 North Orchard St
Tacoma, WA 98406
http://www.tacoma.k12.wa.us/sites/schools/wilson/Pages/Default.aspx
Each room, except two, had a mouse and a clock, though I didn’t manage to find them all.
http://www.steilacoomhistorical.org/NathanielOrrHome.html
The store is all geared up for Thanksgiving and here is their Thanksgiving link.
http://www.safeway.com/IFL/Grocery/Thanksgiving#iframetop
This is an interesting Thanksgiving image from Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/controltheweb/66672874/in/photostream/
Site of the Norwegian Congregational Church, since demolished
Originally uploaded by Gexydaf
I’ve been wanting to do a house as the new place of the day for a while and I’ve admired this vacant home. It is located at 1624 Ainsworth in the Hilltop area. My understanding is that this property and the adjacent lot next door had been the site of the Norwegian Congregational Church, which was constructed in 1912 and later demolished. This photograph shows the house that was constructed on the site of the church in 1922. I have to wonder why a 20 year old church was demolished. And I also wonder why it is sitting vacant now. There is no for sale sign, but there is a no trespassing sign in the living room window.
The public record shows that the house was last updated in 1953 and has 1,431 square feet of finished living area and 896 square feet of unfinished area (probably the basement area). It was most recently accessed for $193,100.
So, I know much more about this property, but the mystery remains. How many families have lived here? Where they happy? What is the future of the home?
The house reminds me of my grandmother’s house in PA. See the older photo below.
The link for the labels is here http://businessprinting.van.fedex.com/address-labels.aspx?xnav=pricingdetails&rd=2
Of course they have a bunch of stuff you can make, cards, brochures, invitations, banners, etc. The return address label I like is below with the little red birds in the snowy tree. 
Originally uploaded by Gexydaf
Usually I take my new place of the day photos after work, but today I stayed late and found a wind storm outside when I left. So the new place of the day is an older photo, though I did check in today.
This shot of the Elephant Car Wash was taken on New Year’s Eve 2010 through the window of the light rail system in Tacoma, the Link.
There are nine Elephant Car Washes in the Puget Sound area and this one is in Tacoma and was built in 1963.
http://elephantcarwash.com/website/?page=about
We deserved a nice brunch today and the daughter was petitioning for IHOP. She had the strawberry banana pancakes and I went for the loganberry blintzes. Both were good and the loganberry reminded me of going to IKEA. Per the IHOP website, “As of June 30, 2010, there were 1,476 IHOP restaurants located in 50 states and the District of Columbia, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands”
