Not my most exciting adventure, but today’s new place of the day is Office Depot. It made me think of that Dilbert book, Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies. 🙂 Hey! Today is 10-10-10 and that’s kind of cool!
My dear daughter informed me that she needed oil pastels desperately and we went to Jo-Anns in Tacoma to have our craft needs met. I sent said daughter off with my phone/camera to snap a couple of photos while I waited in line to check out. This is the photo we both liked the best. 🙂
There are 29 Jo-Anns in Washington State and I guess that Spokane is the craftiest city because they have three!
The new place of the day quest was a good excuse for visiting the Black Bear Yogurt and I’m sure glad we did. It was great. I had the peanut butter banana with chocolate sprinkles, my dear daughter had the chocolate with rainbow sprinkles and the husband had raspberry in a cone. They also had praline, vanilla and Euro Tart. They always have six flavors at a time and change about once a week. It was a really nice space with a fireplace and whimsical carved bears.
http://www.blackbearyogurt.com/
http://www.washingtonhistory.org/wshm/default.aspx
Since the orginal blog, it has been announced that the State History Museum will be closing. I hope not. It will be a tremendous loss for the State of Washington.
http://www.wshs.org/performanceMeasures/CustomerComments.aspx
Today I ran into the Paper Zone in Tacoma Central Shopping Center off of Union and South 23rd. There is just something so inspiring about all those stamps, art paper and crafts! There are six Paper Zone locations in Washington State and three more in Oregon.
General information about the stores can be found here
And their blog, with some fun craft ideas, is located here
http://paperzoneblog.blogspot.com/
Update: 5.6.2011 I’ve heard that the Tacoma Paper Zone is closing the door at the end of May 2011. Makes me sad.
I took a quick photo of Titlow Lodge today for my new place of the day. The history of the Lodge, which isn’t now actually used for lodging is pretty interesting. When it was built in 1911 it was called the Hotel Hesperides and had 30 guest rooms. The building’s architect was Frederick H. Heath who also designed Stadium and Lincoln High Schools and the Central School Building. In 1926 the property was purchased by Metro Parks and between 1937 and 1941, the top two floors were removed. The building is now being upgraded and is not open to the public.
http://www.metroparkstacoma.org/page.php?id=734
A photo of the building taken in 1977 can be found in the Tacoma Public Library’s Tacoma-Pierce County Building Index. http://search.tacomapubliclibrary.org/buildings/bldgv2.asp
I watched this building at 2358 Yakima Avenue being constructed, happy knowing that there were some construction folks with decent paying jobs. And then one day it all came to an end. The most recent newspaper story I could find about the property proclaims “Half-finished building project in downtown Tacoma gets new name, investors” and states that the project is now called the Jackson Senior Living Project. But except for security fencing being installed and some sealing of the property, no work has been done on the building for many months. If anybody knows any more, I’d be happy to update this new place of the day for 10/4/2010.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/08/11/1297108/backed-by-precious-gems.html#storylink=mirelated
Update 6/17/2011
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/06/08/1698593/sale-may-bring-life-to-long-dormant.html
The HarvestFest was today and we went to two farms. The new place of the day 10/2/2010 is Moon Farm. What a delightful place! They gave us a farm tour on a golf cart and then they showed up their jam factory and gave us samples of delicious jams. We brought home 3 jars of it! We spent quality time with their lovely chickens and even got to feed them :).
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My dear daughter did some volunteer work today at Tacoma Lutheran Retirement Community today and I went to pick her up and made this my new place of the day. I’ve been past the entrance to this community hundreds of times, but never really noticed it before.
The community features several styles of living units including condos, independent apartments, assisted living, a care center, a dementia care unit, a medicare/rehab unit and a respite care.
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I seem to be making the rounds of Tacoma’s grocery stores with today’s being the Safeway on Pearl and North 26th Street. Even though the weather had warmed into the mid-70s, the season and decoration says autumn. This isn’t the fanciest Safeway in town, that title is held by the one in the Proctor District, but it’s pretty darn nice.
