1. Rest assured
Like Santa, this sleep app knows when you are sleeping. It also knows when you need to be awakened.
The Sleep Cycle app monitors your sleep and wakes you in the lightest sleep phase, the natural way to wake up feeling rested. Don’t worry, you don’t have to take it to bed with you. Turn on your phone’s microphone and it somehow just knows (by using sound analysis) when to sound the alarm during your desired time frame.
A reviewer wrote: “The result is so gentle and lovely it feels like being woken up by a mermaid stoking your hair or a unicorn nuzzling your toes.”
More at www.sleepcycle.com.
2. Tour houses
Here are two chances to walk inside the homes of strangers with an appreciation of history.
The Snohomish Historical Society Home Tour, a self-guided tour of historic homes around Snohomish, is noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 17. Tickets are $15 or $12 for seniors and children. Tickets have a tour map with directions to each showcased home. Tickets are available at the Waltz Building, 116 Ave. B, the day of the tour. More at www.snohomishhistoricalsociety.org or by calling 360-568-5235.
The Historic Everett Home Tour, featuring north Everett homes, is 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 23. Go to www.historiceverett.org for more.
3. Free park-ing
Got a fourth grader in the house?
Get outside.
Every Kid in a Park offers free entry into all federal parks, forests and recreation areas for a full year for fourth graders and their families.
More at www.everykidinapark.gov.
— Andrea Brown, The Herald
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