Basement and Attics Closes Today

We've just learned that Basements and Attics, the Brookland furniture resale store, is closing today August 31. Today's hours are 11 am to 8 pm and many items will be on sale for at least 50% off. Basements and Attics is located at 12th and Jackson Streets NE near the Brookland Metro (Red Line).

I've Found the Butterflies

A few weeks ago I wrote about the absence of butterflies in Washington DC. Happily, I've found DC's butterflies at the US Botanic Gardens' Butterfly Garden. Visit the butterflies in side the USBG's National Garden, outside to the west of their conservatory at 100 Maryland Avenue SW from 10 am to 5 pm.

New at Best of Washington DC T-shirts and Gifts

Best of Washington DC T-shirts and Gifts has a new line of maternity t-shirts. For the mom who is expecting her first child, we have My First Baby tshirts. Our Please Don't Touch shirts express the thought of the expecting mother who doesn't want folks touching her belly. Check out the rest of our Mom-To-Be Tees today.

My First Baby Maternity Dark T-Shirt

Twins Maternity T-Shirt

Vehicle Safety Video

This week's safety tip from the Metropolitan Police Department focuses on vehicle safety. On MPD's website you'll also find a link to this video on vehicle safety.

Life in the City: DC DMV

On Tuesday, I went to the Brentwood DMV in NE DC. If you need to go to the DC DMV, here are a few words of advice: Don't go to Brentwood. The facility is woefully undersized. We spent an hour in the line outside to enter the building. An hour. Outside. Standing up. In the mid-day heat. Once inside the building, it took another half-hour to transact our business.

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New: We Have Notecards

Best of Washington DC T-shirts and Gifts now has notecards available in packs of 10. Check them out today.

Three Stars and Two Bars Note Cards (Pk of 10)

Buy 3 T-shirts, Get 1 FREE

Buy 3 T-Shirts and Get 1 T-Shirt FREE at Best of Washington DC T-shirts and Gifts* No coupon needed.

Starts: July 21, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Offer Ends Wednesday, August 1 at 11:59 PM PT.


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Get Groceries at Your Door in Washington DC

Washingtonians can get non-perishable groceries delivered to their door.

Where have the Butterflies Gone?

Yesterday I saw a beautiful butterfly sitting on the orange petals of a flower. As this lovely, yellow and black creature flew away, I thought about how rarely I see butterflies around DC. I looked for butterflies as I went about the rest of my day. I saw none. Is anyone else seeing butterflies around here? Or I am the only one who is missing them?

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Disgraceful Behavior in the Name of Peace

On a radio broadcast I heard today, the widow of a soldier who fell in Iraq described her husband's funereal. She said that anti-war protesters showed up, but she was grateful to God that they decided not to protest. While I'm very much pro-peace, the thought of people protesting at a soldier's funereal is disgraceful and sickening. Protesting at a soldier's funereal is unpatriotic. How can Americans show so little respect for the people who have died to protect our freedom to protest and our many other freedoms. How could Americans how so little respect for a grieving family, for the wife who has lost her husband, and the small children who are now without a father. Such shameful behavior does not further the cause of peace.