Hello from Team Shafer

We have moved! We just bought our new house and moved in May 2008. Check back soon for updates, photos and more. For now, we're unpacking boxes and hoping the dust settles.

Listening...
Josh Ritter "The Historical Conquest...", Sean Hayes "The Flowering Spade", Steve Earle "Washington Square Serenade", Radiohead "In Rainbows", Ryan Adams Ryan Adams Ryan Adams, Be Good Tanyas, Rocky Votalato, Laura Veirs, Ida, Ben Harper covering Jimi Hendrix, The Boss "Greetings from Ashbury Park, NJ", "I Loved Her First"

Watching...
Into the Wild, Veronica Mars, Waitress (Dan still hasn't finished it and Alicia is waiting to get back to a regular Netflix rotation), Planet Earth (BBC), videos of Hannah

Reading...
The Sparrow, The Barn at the End of the World, Teaching Stones to Talk, Urban Babies Wear Black, Curious George Opposites, Curious George Goes Fishing.

Visiting...
Pacific Place at 6 pm to see the artificial indoor blizzard, Colorado, Teannaway Guard Station, South King County, the Alaska Airlines executive board room, Vancouver BC via Amtrak.

Current Seattle Weather (updated every 4 seconds):

Highlights from the Permanent Collection

Alicia's blog "Blue Tags are Half Off"

The famous Black Turkey recipe (though we brined ours this year thanks to the SF Chronicle and it was delicious)

Durgin Park's Indian Pudding recipe

Cretia's Nursing Portfolio

A guide to Bay Area Snobbery (used to be required reading before visiting)

Homemade pizza -- after years of testing

Sattelite photo of the 23439 (Shafer Homestead)

Big cats

Christmas cards:
2004
2005
2006
2007

Dan's Suit Measurements