We just got back from a carbon-free walk to Whole Foods, and we’re kinda sweaty.  However, a big THANK YOU to Mama Nature for giving us back the June she took from us.

Aside from more sweaty walks, this heat wave could also mean that the local tomato crop might actually have a chance to become red before the first frost.  We’ll be keeping our fingers crossed for our fellow urban farmers.

Body found at Ravenna Park this morning.  Looks like a suicide.  A few details about it on the Seattle Times website and the Seattle P-I’s.

Hope this doesn’t put people off the invasive weeding in the ravine on Saturday.

Thanks to reader Karl N. for the info.

So, we’ve been in the neighborhood since November.  And I have to say, I love the signs that The Herbalist puts up.

Case in point:

You can check out the Detox-It Kit here.

The Ravenna Third Place Books shelving arrangement redesign is still taking shape.  Here’s a shot from about halfway to the cafe, looking back toward the door:

Among the changes I noticed during a brief walkthrough this afternoon:

• The cashier’s counter has been moved to just inside the door on the right (if you’re walking in).
• The craft and food section is no longer in a easy-to-walk-by-and-browse-through friendly aisle.
• For those more geographically-inclined, many shelves that were situated north-south are now east-west (lots of this to the right of where this picture was taken).
• The browse-friendly, wide-aisled U-shaped path (front door to cafe to magazines to kids’ section) is REALLY cramped now over by where philosophy used to be.

It’s still very much a work in progress, clearly: Books and pieces of shelves are everywhere.  The Ravenna TPB website says that the buy counter will be open again on Monday.  If that means that everything is back on a shelf and the store is shipshape again, we’ll eat our copy of A Cat in the Hat.

Now accepting nominations for the Best Yard of the Week.

Give us an address and your reasons why, and we’ll go check it out.

If there are no submissions — which is HIGHLY likely, as we just started this blog a few days ago — we’ll just pick one ourselves.  And, to be honest, we’ve already picked it.

Winning yards will have a picture and a little write-up here on the blog.  T-shirts to follow in the future, no doubt.