Category: Sponsors « Sunnyside Family Swap Shop and Play Space

Know Your Neighbor – Cold weather car care with Hawthorne Auto Clinic

What better day to be talking about cold weather car care than the first snowy morning of the season. Liz and Jim at Hawthorne Auto Clinic are two of my favorite role models for how to run a business and how to take care of a car. I’ll brag about how well they take care [...]

Know Your Neighbors – Schools and Classes

Whether you have a one year old or a fourteen year old, like the idea of circus skills for fun or Saturday school for better academics, this swap shop post about schools and classes connects [...]

Know Your Neighbor – Cycle of Life

This is the story of over wrapped shoes and under wrapped finances . . . the story of estate sales and lawyers, whimsy and wonder.

If through it all you find some valuable resources for your family and an angle on shopping you hadn’t quite thought about in a while. . . then this tale [...]

Spring at the Green Micro Gym

Last October and again this January I wrote a Roost Sponsor email all about our new neighbor Green Micro Gym that has opened up right off Belmont just past Hoda’s Restaurant on 34th with the same code keypad we use on the front door and that great spirit of co-operative community that helps keep it all lower cost [...]

Two Preschool’s, Three Birthday Parties and a Toy Shop

I was delighted to drive up NE 28th this week and see Polliwog back open for business in their new location near Everett right next to my favorite ice cream shop in Portland – Staccato Gelato. If you find yourselfon a toy store and sweet treat outing, please say hi to owners (and RoostSponsors) [...]

Spring Cycling Updates

If you have ambitions to ditch the car to become a bike only commuter, are ready to get more exercise or are getting excited about more family bike outings when the sun starts shining . . . this is the know-your-neighbor post with the things to know.

Everything [...]

The Herb Shoppe Update

Fresh off of hosting a carnival held in a gym inside a church filled with trapezes and a swap shop, I am sitting down at my computer figuring out how to best describe some doctors with classes and acupuncture and warm cups of tea in an Herb Shoppe .

Weatherizing with Hankins True Value Hardware

With the main parts of the growing season behind us, we have a whole new set of reasons to visit our neighborhood hardware store. Sure there are the year round trips for plumbing and other maintenance items, but we are also just at the beginning of the weatherizing season.

I don’t know if you’ve [...]