How to Get Rid of Morning Glory

Aug 31, 2009 Kennewick Life

This is too cool to NOT post about: Vondalee Paulson has posted a brilliant tip on her blog about how to get rid of Morning Glory in a garden:

“In talking about it with my DH, we came up with the idea to buy little flower tubes, those things florists use in flower arranging, fill them with Roundup, stick ‘em in the ground with the ends of the plant thrust into the cap.”

How genius is that? Make sure to read the full post because Vondalee has some more tips about speeding up the process. Too cool!

Huge Fire Today in Kennewick

Aug 21, 2009 Kennewick News

Unless you were out of town or just never left your house, you surely saw or smelled the big fire today in between I-82 and the Columbia Center area. KEPR-TV reported, at one point, that there were five separate fires burning in the area near Hildebrand and Sherman.

It started in the afternoon, and was still burning when I drove by at around 8:30 pm tonight. The smoke was as thick as I’ve ever experienced. Crazy.

Jeremy Asmus has a handful of good photos from this afternoon that he’s posted on Flickr.

Cable Bridge in Kennewick

Aug 21, 2009 Kennewick Sights

One of these days, I’m gonna grab my better camera and tripod and go find a good spot to shoot photos of the cable bridge at night, when it’s all lit up. Yes, everyone has already seen pictures like that of the cable bridge, but I still want to do it.

Until then, I had to settle for this daylight photo (from my iPhone) that we took last weekend after dinner at Ice Harbor Brewing Company.

Review: Ice Harbor Brewing Company (restaurant)

Aug 18, 2009 Kennewick Life

Even though Cari and I have lived in the Tri-Cities since late 1994, and Ice Harbor Brewing Company has been around since 1997, we never ate there … get this … until Sunday night. Seriously! But trust me when I tell you we won’t be waiting that long to eat there again. We had a friend visiting from Seattle, also had the kids with us, and all five of us really enjoyed the meal.

We arrived at the restaurant (the Clover Island marina location) right around 5 pm Sunday, and it wasn’t crowded at all. The waitress was very quick to greet us and (try to) get our order. I say “try to” because it took us a while to decide — the menu’s pretty big and lots of stuff looked good. But she was patient and didn’t force us to order before we were ready.

I had the Garlic-Pesto Chicken Flatbread, which was delicious. Cari had “Tess’ Awe-inspiring Homemade Meatloaf” and said that was good, and our friend enjoyed the Prime Rib Dip. The kids both ordered the chicken “Tiny Bites” and liked them. We also tried the home-brewed root beer, which was quite good — but not as sweet as what you’re familiar with if you buy root beer from the grocery store. We also tried the Chocolate Spooncake dessert, which was incredible. And there was a new dessert, some kind of rainbow cake, that was also pretty good.

Service was good overall, but it slowed down a bit toward the end of our meal. I’m guessing someone called in sick cuz there only seemed to be a couple wait staff people serving tables as the restaurant got more crowded. Only other drawback — well, more of a surprise — was that the kids’ drinks were not included in the price of their dinner. Most restaurants we go to don’t charge extra for the kids’ drinks, it’s included in the meal price on the kids’ menu.

But those are minor quibbles, and we’ve already agreed that we’ll be going back to Ice Harbor again soon.

[where: Ice Harbor Brewing Company, 350 Clover Island Drive, Kennewick, WA 99336]

Kennewick 3-on-3 Basketball Tourney back for 2009

Aug 6, 2009 Kennewick Events

UPDATE: If you’re looking for information about the 2010 3-on-3 basketball tournament, please click here:

Kennewick 3-on-3 Basketball Tourney Coming in August

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Downtown for Three, Kennewick’s 3-on-3 basketball tournament, is back and it’s happening this weekend!

The tournament has separate brackets for boys and girls ranging from 1st grade up to high school. There are also men’s and women’s adult-level brackets, and two elite brackets — one of which is for folks 6′ and under. Team entry fees range from $80 to $120.

Team packets can be picked up tomorrow (Friday) from 5-7 pm at Centennial Flag Plaza on the corner of Kennewick Avenue and Benton Street. Team packets not picked up by then will be available Saturday morning at 7 am at the registration tent.

All of this is being organized by the Historic Downtown Kennewick Partnership. Visit www.downtownforthree.org for more last-minute information.