In limbo

 

The rescued Alki Beach Stone Cottage is sitting on Seattle Port Authority property near Elliott Bay. It was moved successfully 7 months ago without a single stone lost.

The cottage is still in limbo, after the community raised enough money to save it from demolition.  There was a lot of excitement about the move at the time, and they offered to donate the cottage to Seattle Parks and Recreation. The city declined.
 

The hope was that Seattle would relocate it near the Alki Bathhouse. The above picture is an artist's impression of what could be a sweet tribute to Alki's beach-bungalow past. I don't know all the details, but the Park's refusal was probably about the expense of restoring the structure and making it ADA compliant. 

Not to be deterred, the cottage advocacy group is now organizing another fund raiser to set up an endowment to renovate and maintain the cottage. Stay tuned.

Wow. I woke up after 7 this morning. We thought about going across town yesterday to visit the Asian Art Museum on Capitol Hill, but time seems all out of whack. Lunchtime rolled around before we knew it. So we stayed in West Seattle and took a little stroll at the Community College Arboretum and Chinese Garden, a low stress, close to home excursion we've done many times. Pictures below.

After that, a stop at a very busy Home Deport-- potting soil and a new hose I'll dislike for one reason or another. I have a long history of bad relationships with garden hoses.

The indoor mask rule in Washington state was just lifted. In our blue zip code, where almost 90% of people are fully vaccinated, about 90% were still wearing masks inside Home Depot, even though they didn't "have to." 

I went without mine in the outdoor garden center which felt fine, but walking around without a mask in the warehouse felt like being naked! Probably by the time we're finally comfortable, they'll tell us to put them on again.