B is for Ballard

My future home:

Ballard, WA.
Sweet Sweet Haven and suburb of Seattle.
Folkish, warm, little shops,
and the smell of the harbor.
My happy place.
Perfect.


Only one more month until I move there! The apartment even has a patio (ground level) and planting beds! Green thumb time! I love Ballard and can't wait to be there and call it home. My mom, my future roomate and I perused the Ballard market yesterday and enjoyed its sights, sounds and smells. We even saw someone attack a tree (we think he was tripping on acid or something...) and Ballard is dog central of Seattle. I have never seen more pooches in such a concentrated area! Pups everywhere, and of every sort! French Bulldog, Pug, Lab, Akita, Chihuahua, Daschund, Laberdoodle, Yorkie... the list goes on! They're everywhere! The market is as much a place for human interaction as it is for canine flirtation! So cute!

We then went to the Ballard Locks and Salmon Ladder- it's one of my favorite things about being near the water. The smell is so full seaweed odor and gull feathers! There is no escaping the mist that wafts off the dam. Tourists snap pictures and gawk at boats as they wait for the equalization of the water levels to pass through the locks. The sun was shining. A perfect day to be near the water. We even saw a blue heron... oh, and more dogs.

The wonderful thing about moving to Ballard is the sense of community and the comfortable quiet of the neighborhoods. Right off of the main avenues it's so calm and the birds are audible. There's everything you need and a place to hang your hat at the end of the day. And my rent is the lowest I think I'll ever pay in my entire life, and for an apartment that is absolutely worth SO MUCH MORE but the rent is low, low low!! Yes, there are fancy apartments all around, and apartments with their swanky views and amenities.. but all I want for now is a comfortable bed, a good kitchen and a garden to get my hands dirty. And, of course, a caserole dish full of jellybeans.