One thing I love about Silverdale

 

Silverdale Egg Capitol

Did you know Silverdale used to be the egg capitol of the Pacific NW? I knew I was in the right place when I read that! When I first moved here and lived in Silverdale, ( recently have moved to Poulsbo, more on that in the next post) it was hard for me to find viewable historical milestones around town without reading the Internet’s little bits and peices I could find about Silverdale History.

I did find an interesting rec-cap of how Silverdale used to be called Goldendale..I like both names but kinda could envision the” Welcome to Goldendale” sign near the McDonalds Golden Arches and as much as I love that the Silverdale lining shines as the retail mecha of Kitsap County,  I love knowing even more that Silverdale produced one of my favorite foods and does have a strong story behind the walls of retail bliss!

Just a few of my thoughts for the day!

See more egg resources here and if you have two free chickens I can have for my yard, please let me know

Silverdale Cleaning and Maid Service Coupon NEW!

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Spending more time with your family is important and Amanda can help!

She will even leave you a small gift for earning your business & she loves to clean!

 

Bremerton School District will offer Spanish starting in Kindergarten

Statistics show that professionals who speak a second language are called on to travel and exchange information with people in other countries throughout their careers. Knowing more than one language enhances opportunities in government, business, medicine and health care, law enforcement, teaching, technology, the military, communications, industry, social service, and marketing. An employer will see you as a bridge to new clients or customers if you know a second language.

 Congratulations to the The Bremerton School District for offering Spanish instruction in kindergarten.

Now if we could only go back to Kindergarten right? Even better yet, if you can sing Spanish!  I think hearing Spanish music is enjoyable to most of us who can’t understand it but like hearing it just the same!

Anyhow, Spanish classes will begin next September and the Assistant superintendent Linda Jenkins says parents want their children to be literate in more than one language, to help…Read More Of The Story Here>>>

Kitsap County is the hottest place to be if you are a home based business!

 
Overview of the Home Based Business Expo at Kitsap Mall Silverdale, Washington

By Lisa Jachimowicz, lisaj@kitsapcountyforum.com

April 22, 2007

Silverdale

Kitsap County home based businesses are thriving and from the buzz at the Kitsap County Home Based Business Expo, there are many benefits to being a home based business in our area. The event was sponsored by the Silverdale Chamber of Commerce and included a diverse group of home based business owner’s who set-up impressive and informative tables inside the doors of Kitsap Mall on Saturday, April 21st.

Many different products and services were showcased but one theme remained the same… >>>read more>>>

It’s cool to be a homebased business in Kitsap County!

Having lived in many places, one of many great things I can say about Kitsap County is that it must be the home based business capitol of the world. Go to any networking group and you will see what I mean. It is now the cool-hip and polictically correct thing…to be able to say YES! “I am a home based business!”

I remember the days where it was difficult to be a home based business. Now with wonderful advancements in technology often home based businesses are more efficient and definatley more comfortable than being stuck in what I affectionaly call cubeworld.

 

Cumbersome paper fax machines and expensive phone lines are a thing of the past. Thank God for cheap laptops, vonage, constant contact and efax that can make any home based business company as efficient as the office down the street. Utilizing products and services within your own county helps in many ways. Often you get better customer service and higher qaulity products.

This Saturday, if you are in the vicinity of Kitsap Mall, stop by between 10AM-5PM for the annual Home based business Expo. The Kitsap County Forum will be roaming around checking out all the great home based businesses in Kitsap County.

Who knows? We may even write a story about it!

As the boating season approaches…..

I start to mentally plan out my summer events. I can’t help but reminisce about the past  and how every year I swear to do better.

Ok, let’s start with docking the boat. Navigating the boat to just come up alongside the dock after launching has been my nemesis. Every summer I say to myself I am going to dedicate one day to just putting the boat in the water and practice pulling up to and off the dock. I watched my friend, who is on the Sherriff’s Marine Patrol, dock his and it “looked” so simple. All he did (so it seems) was spin the steering wheel in both directions a few times, put the engine in reverse at just the right time and presto, perfect landing. Now I try it and I swear, people on the dock see me coming and start running or laughing. Not to mention my boat has all 6 kids and my wife in it and the girls (4)  just need to get to the bathroom (no pressure). This summer I will master it.

I kind of skipped launching because that is actually easy for me. It’s when I pull the boat out of the lake that gets me. Getting the boat on the trailer is getting better…I just need to make sure it is pulled all the way up before I leave. Or that it is evenly placed on all the boards. I have had to re-launch my boat a few time to correct that mistake. You see, after spending a week at Lake Cushman with the family 2 years ago I thought I had cranked the boat up securely enough when we left. I had the safety chain on so all was good (so I thought). I am always paranoid when driving with the boat. Not being able to see behind me is tough plus the trailer is wider than my truck so I spend a lot of time looking in the rear view & side mirrors checking on the trailer. On this particular trip home I kept noticing the boat seemed to be bobbing a lot behind me. I kept going over everything I did before I left the lake to see if maybe I missed a step but couldn’t think of what I maybe forgot that would have caused this to happen. So I chalked it up to being normal and kept on driving. But my gut wasn’t sitting right. We made it home safely and parked the boat in the driveway. I walked back to unhook the trailer and I just about died. Apparently, I had not cracked it up all the way and on the drive home the strap broke from the stress. The boat was being held by the safety chain alone. When it snapped I don’t know and maybe I don’t want to know. The thought of what could have happened scared me to death and I thank God for protecting us and those around us on the way home.

I look back and laugh at my ignorance but this has been a great lesson for me. I now could care less about the impatient people waiting to drop or pull their boat at the launch. When I am waiting I now pay attention to the people who look a little inexperienced and offer advice and help. I watch boats on the road to make sure they are safely secured (I wish someone had noticed my boat bobbing unusually and warned me).

The unusually warm days we have had has caused me to visit the boat in the garage to reaquaint ourselves. She’s still there and looking good. Pretty soon it will be time to de-fog the motor and crank her up. Oh…did I mention the time I forgot to winterize the motor? Enough for now about my mishaps. I promise….there are more to come.

Chris

How to grow stuff in containers

   

I have not been to Clearcreek nursery yet and I keep hearing about it so I thought I would click my way on over and see what the big story was about. Being an avid website person, I am able to visit far away lands with the click of my mouse and sometimes  feel satisfied in the dream of (sorta) having visited the destination via the website.  In the case of Clearcreek nursery this is not the case!

I found a nice little webpage there about container gardening. Now this interests me, because I live in an apartment where the grounds are immaculate but my little porch could use some help. In the early days of my apartment living, I spent some big bucks on plants only to kill them, then I would have to replace them with more live plants…see the pattern here? Now, I only have some fake plants and I didn’t win the porch of the year award either and I like winning. Sooo…

The pictures above struck my interest and I happened to noticed there is a interesting class over at Clearcreek called Container Planting with the Potting Sisters. This couldn’t come at a better time for me as I am a great ground grower (as growing stuff in a yard is my speciality) but container planting is not.

It is a totally different ballgame or bulbgame if you will.

So if you get a chance head on over to Clearcreek Nursery on Saturday April 21, 2007
10am to 12 noon Clear Creek Nursery 11688 Clear Creek Road Silverdale, WA 98383

The Potting Sisters will demonstrate the step-by step process of container
planting. They will offer personal advice on your owncontainer garden from
beginning to end.Extra charges may apply for materials.

For all classes, there is a $10 registration fee. After attending the class,
you will receive a coupon for $10 off a purchase of $25 or more.

lj

Kitsap County Forum Easter Traditions and Gifts

 

As Easter quickly approaches I am reflecting on my Easter as a young child. My favorite Easter tradition that my parents celebrated was the infamous Jelly Bean trail. They did this every year for as far back as I can remember and I think they still do it.

The Jelly Bean trail starts out with your name on a colored egg followed by a trail of Jelly beans to hidden treasures behind the couches, chairs and tables.  This was a highly anticipated event for me and almost as exciting as Christmas.

One year when I was probably six or seven, the Easter Bunny brought me a red transistor radio shack looking radio. This was the most glorious gift to date (other than the Barbie townhouse and my 1^st tape recorder at Christmas) and compared to this day and age it would be the equivalent of getting a new computer for Easter. I absolutely loved this radio and I really give this gift credit to my love of music, especially 70’s music.

As I reflect more on my childhood holidays. I am amazed at what stands out in my memory. Having children of my own I wonder what they will remember and often hope that our holidays will stir up good memories like the ones my parents created for me.  Now after many years I have a newfound respect for the work, time and effort my parents put into making holidays special for us. Even though I try to do the same things, I do not think we do our holidays the same justice as my parents did.  My mom is great cook so the food was always exquisite and not only did it taste good it could be photographed for a famous culinary magazine. The table settings were always perfect, too (my mom likes everything to match) and I could always count on my mom’s famous broccoli and cheese casserole and the perfect green (with walnuts, and pineapple) Jell-O mold that I have convinced myself she made just for me.

My mom always believed in new clothes for Easter holidays (and she is the best clothes shopper I know) unfortunately, I did not inherit her love for dressing up and her good taste in apparel so I really miss her picking out clothes for me.  My own children’s claim to fame for my mother is the great clothes she would carefully pick out for them at holidays as well.  She would always explain why she picked out what color or style for each of my children, real thought went into it. They loved this. This is one of the great talents she has and the gift really was not just about clothing it was about really knowing and caring about them.

My mom has many talents but the greatest gifts she gave her children were not tangible gifts you can buy in a store. By her example she raised kids with good work ethics. She was a daycare provider and I remember her getting up at the crack of dawn to get ready for the kids that would be dropped off at our house (and even though as a child I did not appreciate her taking care of other peoples children at all) she took care of them like they were her own. That is what I look back on as phenomenal and she was so unappreciated. Taking care of children like they are your own (when they are not) is a incredable gift, she did it and she did it the best.

My mother also showed me that it was normal to go back to school in your 30’s (as she did this to attain her degree) and I do not know anything differently. She is now an established and highly respected teacher. I am proud of her for that.

We were not raised to be prejudice either, I do not know how she did that, but it is on the top ten list of things she gave to me that has tremendously helped me in my life. It might not seem like a big deal now, with all the diversity awareness but I have always had this appreciation and curiousity of other cultures and other religions other than my own.

I was also raised with what I call success blindness, I was never told there is not anything I cannot do, I just knew it.  In my parents eyes, regarding competency  I wasn’t a boy or a girl, I was me, and I could do whatever I wanted to do at the time I wanted to do it. I was a person.

The best gift I think both my parents gave me is the gift of making something out of nothing. I remember when they bought a little 3 bedroom ranch house in Baldwinsville, NY that needed a ton of work; they put every penny getting into that house. I didn’t know it at the time but there was a financial struggle. The best family memory (that we laugh about from that time period) is that there was one morning that my brother and I got to have bananas and Twinkies for breakfast; I thought this was the greatest thing ever! But it wasn’t for them. It was at a time they were struggling and oddly enough one of my happiest childhood memories was sitting on the ugly black tile floor with my brother in our new house eating those bananas and Twinkies.  I always use the “making something out of nothing philosophy” and always think of the house on Daywood Drive that ended up being the cutest and best house on the block. This philosophy comes in handy in my business endeavors and now my warped idea of success would be to find that run down little ranch house (ya know, the one people would say “WHY did you buy that??”)  and knock out all the walls and cut out half of the back of the house to put a sliding glass door in it.

My parents were young parents (as I was) and working hard to make there way in the world at that time in my life, so I look back with a great appreciation for everything they did for us at holidays and throughout different times in our life.  It was simply amazing.

Even though I do not keep in touch as well as I should with them and I am enjoying life here in Silverdale, Washington, I wish I could be there with them for Easter.

This year in honor of them, I am doing the Jelly Bean trail tomorrow.  Enjoy!

Happy Easter from all of us at the Kitsap County Forum!

Grand Opening of the Kitsap County Forum

                                GRAND OPENING OF THE KITSAP COUNTY FORUM

Silverdale, WA (March 20^th, 2007 ) Kitsap County Forum president Lisa Jachimowicz proudly announces the Grand Opening of the Kitsap County Forum website on March 20^th, 2007. The live forum/news and media website was developed and is operated by the Acrislis Media Group. The website is located at www.kitsapcountyforum.com  and will help raise the growth of our region by harnessing the power of the Internet with its unique dedication to Kitsap County’s small to medium size businesses.

Kitsap County Forum (www.kitsapcountyforum.com) has been designed with high standards and expectations of achievement and will empower all Kitsap County residents with easy access to information, products and services all found in one convenient website. The innovative website includes a live forum for conversation, latest Kitsap
County news and media, and an up to date Online Business Directory. The directory will allow all Kitsap County residents and business owners to find and list local products and services easily and efficiently without the clutter of a general Internet search or flipping through paper pages. It is also very friendly for search engine optimization and has included an RSS news feed which allows users to be notified when something changes. Users preferring the more traditional way of searching through a Business directory can search by category. The results of the category-specific providers are listed in alphabetical order or by featured links. Additionally, many companies who submit will have the choice to include website and e-mail addresses as well as detailed product or company information.   The Kitsap County Forum owners also specialize and cater to the local culinary community by visiting restaurants and writing reviews. They also created live interactive space where forum users can post and comment on community information and participate in lively neighborhood conversation.  Read More >>
  

Kitsap County Forum Opens Photo Contest of 2007

We are pleased to announce that we have opened the Kitsap County Forum Photo contest of 2007! The photo’s submitted must have been taken in Kitsap County and the winner will enjoy a free movie and dinner for two. Good luck!

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