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Who What is this horrific being? It was noticed lurking around the office of Talon Title and Escrow today at their Bellevue location.
Why it’s none other than Tim Daniels, Talon’s Chief Title Officer. He’s been missing for over two weeks! Every Halloween, his desk attacks him leaving him buried alive and wounded with nasty paper cuts. You can see the joy and relief in his co-workers expressions that Tim has been safely recovered. Happy Halloween!
On Monday evening, I had the extreme pleasure of going to Assaggio Ristorante in Seattle for a dinner I had bought at the Explorer West auction last year. The very charming Proprietor, Mauro Golmarvi, was doing a personal cooking demonstration 
for the parents who "bought in". I’m "the cook" in our household so this means that my husband and kids were going to have frozen pizza for dinner (they love the stuff)…it also allowed my husband to do something he’s been waiting to ever since we moved into our current home: cut a hole in the kitchen wall.
Our home was built in 1928 and the kitchen is a bit closed off. We’ve discussed opening up the wall between the kitchen and dining room, which would be a nice improvement and allow the cook (me) to be more social when we have guest. My thoughts were to wait until we could get the entire job done, see what pipes are behind the wall (yeah, that’s a sink in the photo; there’s bound to be some plumbing)…and to 
not have the house messed up during the holidays. Armed with a steak knife, my dear husband went to work on opening up the kitchen wall. What did he find? Pipes! His earlier thoughts that we could either move a single pipe or, if it looked decent, we could leave it exposed…this is not going to work!
When I returned home from my delightful dinner, I was quite surprised to find a large picture (that was hanging elsewhere) over the sink covering the newly exposed pipes.
I love my husband.
By the way, I highly recommend Assiaggo Ristorante and their cookbook, Mauro’s Passion. If you have a group function…consider booking Mauro at the restaurant for a private cooking lesson. The restaurant is beautiful with frescoes on the ceiling and Mauro makes you feel at home. The food is outstanding and Mauro is a wonderful host.
Yesterday we found ourselves walking through Ballard through the Farmers Market and having a late brunch at Hattie’s Hat (I recommend their Migas). It was a near perfect weekend: a sunny 65 degrees with autumn leaves. 
My neighbor sent this to me…we often bump into each other when we’re walking out dogs. My dog is a 12 year old pug, Orson. Welcome to my world!
I’ll never need to clean my computer monitor again!
I believe this is a clematis (we didn’t plant it). It winds up driving my husband crazy since it takes over our front porch. I’ve promised to prune this back AFTER it blooms. Looks like I’ll be busy next weekend…thought I’d share something from the garden to combat our Seattle gray skies.
Although from this photo, it looks like I whacked a piece of his head off! What can you expect from a cell phone/camera? Friday night we attended the Wine Maker’s dinner featuring Sparky Marquis of one of my favorite wines, Mollydooker The event took place at Andaluca located at the Mayflower Park Hotel in Seattle.
Sparky is quite entertaining and we sampled the entire 2006 releases:
If you’ve been reading Mortgage Porter for a while, then you know that I’m a big fan of Mollydooker and to meet Sparky was a thrill. It was a very fun evening.
For more information on Mollydooker wines, visit their website.
Regardless of our opinion of Ben Bernanke, I’m sure you’ll find this spoof of "Every breath you take" comical.
Ben, we’ll be watching you Tuesday, September 18.
Hat tip to Calculated Risk. (I’m not sure if this was an ad (for CBS) at the bottom of their page or if they posted this video there. Regardless, it made me chuckle).
This was our first time being invited to Andrew Will on Vashon Island. It was a perfect day…how can you beat the weather and a short ferry trip to Vashon Island? We weren’t sure what to expect at Andrew Will…it was delightful.
We sampled 5 new 2005 releases (which is a stellar vintage for Washington wines BTW). And throughout their compound, they had wonderful snacks from salty olives, breads, cheeses and salads to brick oven pizza cooked right before our eyes. There was a one-man-techno-band that seemed to work in with the laid back atmosphere. And did I say we tasted the 2005 releases?
Andrew Will is normally not open to the public. I highly encourage you to get on their mailing list so you can enjoy a day such as this!
To cap it all off, we uncorked a bottle of 2005 Two Blondes to enjoy with my husband, his brother and sister and law who live on Vashon before heading back to West Seattle.
Mount Rainier from Vashon Island.
Rhonda Porter is a Licensed Mortgage Originator MLO121324 living in the greater Seattle area. Rhonda began her career in 1986 in the title and escrow industry and began her mortgage career in 2000. She enjoys helping people understand the mortgage process and started writing The Mortgage Porter in late 2006. Read More…
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