The e-mail was overflowing and none of it was nice...
"I don't care if you're taking the week off, I want my Friday Cats!"
"Hey, #$#&*!!**! Friday Cats *&^%$#$!!"
"Laura and me r on vakashun but wud like r Friday Kats."
OK already. Here's a sweet calico who lives down the street.
Friday Cats: There Better Be One
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Ballard Avenue will be taking this week off to attend the Ring cycle operas in Seattle. For the non-Wagnerians amongst us, the Ring is four operas presented over six nights. It's the story of a real estate deal gone really bad. Wotan's scheme to get his castle built opens up a No. 10 size can of worms featuring greed, lust, hatred, spite, malice, and The Norns. And how different is that from most real estate deals, anyway?
Ballard Hardw-r-
photo by Ballard Avenue
For many years, this was the home of Ballard Hardware. They had everything hardware for sale and somehow someone on the staff knew where it was. It was an amazing hodgepodge/higgledy-piggledy/rat warren collection of stuff. No one believed it could all be moved. But somehow it was and Ballard Hardware is now in fancy new digs down the street.
Block party
It was block party night on our street. Good food, good neighbors—it's always a good time. Sorry for the blacked-out eyes but we're all in the Witness Protection Program.
A Man With a Horn
photo by Ballard Avenue
On one song, two of the trumpeters came down off the stage onto the street and were throwing licks back and forth to each other and to the band. ¡Muy caliente!
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