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music suggestions needed

lanita333 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:13:08 -0800

I desperately need music suggestions for a slide show featuring the Pacific Northwest. It can be anything-- vocals, instrumental etc. Please help.

Will I kill the poor, defenseless plants?

Zoyashka — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:01:29 -0800

Is late October late to plant some shrubs in the PNW? I know autumn is the best time of year to plant shrubs, and I just found these beauties that I'd like to plant.

Is late October too late in the season to plant (I'm in the Seattle area to be precise)? I trolled some gardening forums but couldn't quite find the answer to such a simple question!

Thanks folks!

Large decorative plants that will survive in a container on a Seattle deck

matildaben — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:24:55 -0800

What plants are suitable for putting on our deck in Seattle? There's no yard/soil, so they must live in containers. The deck is quite large so I was thinking about large decorative plants like small trees or some form of bamboo. Climate-wise, we have the typical PNW weather of moist winters that only fall below freezing a few days out of the year. Also, we are completely ignorant of gardening and would rather have something that can survive with a minimum of attention.

Traveling by train from Seattle to Vancouver, BC.

bamassippi — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:31:33 -0800

Traveling by train from Seattle to Vancouver, BC. I'm planning a weekend getaway across the border from Seattle to Vancouver BC and looking to travel by rail via Amtrak. Why does the Seattle-Vancouver BC route only offer train trips once per day?

Is this only temporary?
Why the odd hours?
Have any of you traveled to BC via Amtrak?
What was your experience?

Weekend in Portland or Vancouver?

bamassippi — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:35:18 -0800

Weekend in Portland or Vancouver? This Seattleite cannot decide between a weekend (Saturday afternoon through Monday at 2 PM) in Portland, OR or Vancouver, CA.

Is there anything special going on in either location than could swing me in either direction?

What to do in the Pacific Northwest next week?

vytae — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:48:59 -0800

What should I do in Seattle, Portland, and points between, during the first week of December? I'll be in the Pacific Northwest December 5-9 (so, next Wednesday through Sunday). My current plan is to spend the 5th in Seattle, then drive down to Portland for the 6th and 7th, and be in Tacoma on the 8th. I leave from Seattle again on the 9th around lunchtime. (A whirlwind tour, I know, but it has a purpose.) I will have a rental car to take me wherever I want to go.

Are there any special events I should make a point of attending? Any fun winter/holiday/December-related activities I shouldn't miss? Any great and not-overly-expensive restaurants/coffee shops/stores I should visit? Any especially gorgeous scenery I should take in?

I'm a pretty outdoorsy, casual girl who would prefer a nice hike (weather permitting) or hour spent wandering a good bookstore, compared to visiting the trendiest bars. I do love a great meal, but I'm not likely to dress up too much for it. I spent a day in Seattle a couple years ago, so I've got the space needle and Pike Place market checked off my list. What else should I check out?

on the road again

luriete — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:57:06 -0800

In late May, I'll be driving with a bunch of friends in an RV from Sacramento CA to George WA and back for the Sasquatch Music Festival. I've only driven as far north as the Oregon border before, so I'm looking for recommendations of interesting places to stop - your favorite diners, pie shops, waterfalls, hot springs (improved or not) and other oddities of northwest highway culture. I'm familar with many Northern California hot springs (I really like the one in Sierraville), and would love to find other very inexpensive and informal places like that.

Northwest Cooking for Couples

stet — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:50:28 -0800

Dinnerfilter: Help me decide what my girlfriend and I should cook for her birthday. We live in Seattle and prefer things the are Seasonal and Local (tm) and are not averse to digging around the market and fishmongers. We eat a lot of seafood and some meat. Plus the occaisional ribeye. Mussels are coming into season and we're pretty excited about that. A new appetizer recipe for mussels would not go amiss.

Aside from sashimi, we mostly cook in the California/Pacific Northwest style. Our favorite restaurant is Dandelion and we cook in that style, generally. Caprial Pence has written a number of cookbooks from which we regularly and happily cook.

We are pretty good cooks and not intimidated by difficulty, but this is a birthday dinner, so the recipe should be complicated but the fun kind of complicated. Lots of chopping and sauteing are great, but hours of basting would be less fun.

I was hoping to have about three courses and desert or cheese. My plan is to get everything prepped and cook and eat each course before moving on to the next. I realize that there are lots of recipes online, but our cooking has been in a bit of a rut lately and I'm hoping the good citizens of metafilter will come up with some directions that wouldn't have occured to me otherwise. Thanks much.

Alarm Clocks

jimray — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:49:34 -0800

I'm having a bit harder time adjusting to winter in the pacific northwest than I initially thought I would. It's not the rain so much as the shorter days -- I find I really have a hard time getting out of bed in the mornings, even when I get a full 8 hours the night before. I'm investigating something like a progressive wake up alarm clock, which is supposed to simulate sunrise. Anyone used anything like this? Are they worth the $50? Is there someplace other than Hammacher-Schlemmer to pick one up?