A bowl of "taxes" (kibble) and a towel next to both entries, tile floors, and a small ShopVac instead of a standard home vacuum.

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If you are going to the Columbia River Gorge (e.g., for waterfalls and hiking), you can cross over to Washington and hike up Beacon Rock, which is a neat hike and a beautiful view at the top on a relatively clear day.

If you just want to do something in Washington, you could explore downtown Vancouver and the Vancouver waterfront.

Everything else is either, or both, a bit farther away (e.g., the Coast) or closed for the season (e.g., Ape Cave).

Mount St. Helens is over an hour away, but it's pretty cool.

We replaced all of the grass in our back yard. Most areas we covered with paver flagstones, and in the side yard we covered it with playground bark. When it rains, the dogs get wet but they don’t get muddy. It’s made a huge difference.

Within Portland you could visit Powells bookstore (largest independent bookstore), go visit the Chinese garden, or check out some food carts. A little further away you could visit Multnomah falls or try and go on a hike.

The secret is constant cleaning.

Seaside Oregon is a great beach town

Multanomah, bridge of the gods, beacon rock, mt hood for snow adventures. The drive east through the dalles is pretty cool

Sorry, I don't have a response specific to your question, just a reflection. This was the day I was heading off to Navy boot camp. If I recall correctly, I was on the road to the airport and didn't feel anything. We had to head to Portland the next day to fly out. Such a life time ago....

Hell no. They are not civic minded and they proved it beyond doubt. They proved they are stupid and clueless about science and medicine and only care about them selves.

To ignore all the facts and evidence and insert personal feelings means they have proven they can't take care of them selves let along to be able to help us.

If they hire even one back it is a slap in the face of all the good ones that followed the rules and it would kill morale.

That’s the best part: you don’t.

Usually it's avail 2 mos prior to the next season, but as /u/doktorhladnjak shared it has been delayed due to technical issues. They haven't given an estimate as to when it will open up.

The spring season hasn't been made available yet d/t technical issues. They tend to only allow reservations for the next season about 2 months beforehand, but it's been held up

I have two Roombas one for upstairs and downstairs. I have a battery Dyson for the stairs and other tight places. I also have a roomba mop that I use for upstairs since it’s all hardwood. The Roombas go everyday.

lol, I have two full size dogs 85 and 87 pounds respectively and I feel your pain in trying to keep the house clean considering those big dirty paws and the daily amount of hair they both seem to shed. To that end, I have two big floor mats at both the front and back door to first catch the muddy paws before entering the house.

Then I have 3 separate vacuums not including the shopvac. Two of them are uprights, with beater bars to best de-fluff the couple of rooms with area rugs and a canister vac for the hardwood floors. Then there's the roomba which I let loose after I vacuum otherwise it would choke to death on the daily amount of dog hair these two dirty dogs drop every day!

oh, yeah, then there's the swiffler and the mop...

No, Lakewood is on par with south Tacoma as far as safety goes. Which is not great. University Place is a much safer area to live, or the north side of Tacoma. Lakewood, Ruston, University Place, Sfeilacoom and Tacoma have morphed into one continuous metro without any well defined borders and unless you’ve lived there a while it all blends into each other.

it’s up to you, I’d have to be paid to stay in ruston and you couldn’t pay me to move back to tacoma or lakewood. I lived in both for 1.5 years and felt much safer in everett of all places. I was nearly kidnapped in tacoma twice and followed constantly in lakewood and tacoma and steilacoom is expensive and full of old rich people. my cousin is down on jblm and hates it, he’s from WA but would rather be stationed anywhere else

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Lol! So I might as well say scratch off living in Tacoma, or would that be gross generalization?

Some close friends of mine live on the west side of Lakewood, almost Steilacoom, about 5 minutes from Ft. Steilacoom Park. That area seems really nice, pretty quite, about 20 minutes from 6th Ave in Tacoma. It seems like they have less crime around there than we do around my place (South Tacoma/Lincoln District). Your dollars will definitely go further there for housing than in Tacoma proper. As others have said, Lakewood close to JBLM is pretty shitty. Like anywhere else, there are good parts of town and bad parts of town.

steilacoom is better. I’ve walked from the beach at lakewood to tacoma, other than woodbrook, it gets sketchy just as tacoma. ruston is nicer in some areas

It has nothing to do with the schedules. It’s some sort of IT problem.

There’s an alert for it on the ferries site: https://wsdot.com/ferries/schedule/bulletin.aspx

> [Last Updated: Thursday, February 02, 2023 12:09 PM]

> REMINDER: Spring Vehicle Reservation Release Postponed

> The release of vehicle reservations for the Anacortes/San Juan Islands and Port Townsend Coupeville routes for travel between March 26 to June 17 remains postponed. IT staff are still working to address a technical issue with the online reservation system, and we will continue to provide updates as they become available.

> We understand the inconvenience this may cause and are working diligently to resolve the issue and provide an improved customer experience when the release is rescheduled. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Would you recommend Steilacoom?

Lakewood is always appearing on Cops. What does that tell you, lol.