For anyone complaining about the heat this weekend, they should try wearing a raccoon skin coat all day.
Thanks to Bill Lider for taking this darling snapshot.
“I took the attached photo in my Alderwood Manor back yard Saturday afternoon,” Lider said. “Mama raccoon decided to take a nap on the Barred Owl nest box roof while her children peeked out at us.”
He built the nest box from plans he found on the Internet.
“But apparently raccoons do not use the Internet,” he said. “Mama raccoon thought it was the perfect place to raise her family. Sometimes when you put up a birdhouse, you get other critters that can be just as much fun to observe and enjoy.”
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Alderwood Court Senior Housing Assistance Group in Lynnwood is flying two new flags.
Tenants who are veterans noticed the complex had no flag.
Manager Norma Flynn said nice Eagle Scout Troop 301 put up the new flag. The American Legion donation a POW-MIA flag to fly, too.
“This is our first flag and we are very proud to get it,” Flynn said.
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View slides at your leisure. Barbara Foster, who lives in Lake Stevens, is in the process of cleaning out her parents’ house in Everett.
“Mom is in long-term care and my dad passed away in the late 1990’s,” Foster said. “Over the years she and my dad traveled to the Orient, China, Europe, Russia, Hawaii and on shorter trips around the Northwest and the United States.”
Along the way they took slides. Boxes and boxes and boxes of slides.
“I thought maybe there were people out there who might enjoy watching them as it seems a shame to just toss them in the garbage,” Foster said. “I have offered them to family members and there are no takers.”
She thought with my vast knowledge of quirky situations (thank you) that I might have some thoughts on what to do with the collection.
And so I am asking readers if they would like the slides. Contact me at oharran@herald net.com or 425-339-3451.
She is keeping the home movies her father shot of her, just a baby, in 1939.
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Duane Ranstrom, 44, the lead singer and founder of the country gospel group Circuit Rider Quartet, is in the hospital. He founded the quartet more than 20 years ago and has performed at the Evergreen State Fair.
A benefit event last week in Bothell raised more than $30,000 for his care and family.
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Fun fact: There was never a question about the decor at Wendy’s Country Cafe at 1915 California St. in Everett.
There are plenty of roosters, over here, over there. Owner Wendy House wanted to make it look country.
And she just plain likes roosters, she said.
Columnist Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com.
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