Posts Tagged ‘housing’

Neighborhoods I’ve Lived In

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Zillow.com recently started posting neighborhood demographic reviews (based off of US Census data). Interesting reading through them for all of the places I’ve lived to see how they compare to the type of person I was at the time. Pretty close, for the most part; I guess it’s true that people live by people like them.

In order:

I’ll use this to read through these more and come up with some uber-analysis in the future, but for now, seemed like it was a good way to save away the full links.Neighborhoods Ive Lived In photo   Neighborhoods Ive Lived In photo

Snow Day 2007

Monday, December 10th, 2007

(And yes, I am finally blogging after a bit of a break. Decided there were some pictures I needed to get off of my camera, plus people keep bugging me)

A week or so ago was a weird weekend of weather in Seattle; a couple of days of snow, followed by the second worst rain-storm in the city’s history (more on that another time). As it was the first snow storm in the new house, Joelle and I decided to check out the snow.

Turns out the new neighborhood is fantastic for this – good hills, people like to sled, and since it’s higher up in elevation, it tends to snow just a little bit more.

All of the pictures are up at: picasaweb.google.com/ahaverbuch/SnowDay2007

My favorites of us:

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My favorite “nature” shots:

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There’s a Racoon on our Roof!

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Ever since Joelle and I moved into our new neighborhood, we’ve seen quite a few racoons running around the streets. We haven’t thought twice about them, other than to avoid swerving into them on the road.

Saturday night, between Hannukah parties (Happy Hannukah to all by the way!) we stopped home for a bite to eat. As we walked up the front steps, we saw a racoon run around our deck. A second one soon followed, but this one decided to climb up our tree and hang out on our roof. Of course, not knowing what else to do, I immediately ran and grabbed the camera. It was a little dark out, so apologize for the contrast on the pictures below….

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I still haven’t been able to find where the deck-bound critter ran to. Hopefully far away!
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