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[Kaneke]

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OK so color me redneck logger type but where is Covington (area). And Thanks Greg for sharing that.

Covington is one of those Insta Towns that happen when you run a road through the middle of nowhere. Maple Valley cut off (aka Hwy 18) at Kent-Kangley Road, basically, nothing there more than twenty years old. Not a long long way to T-Hi's kid's school, but actually not very close to anything.

mmmm -- must disagree with you there, Julia == Crest Air Park and the shopping center that marks its turn to base leg, have been there since well before 1974

I used to fly out of there quite often, my instructor lived there

yes. some of the strip malls added south and west of there, are newer, but Covington has been a nice residential community there for a lot more years than 20

also technically, Highway 18 is the Echo Lake cutoff, not the Maple Valley cutoff, though it DOES bisect part of Maple Valley,,,

Covington school district established 1937; Crest Air Park opened 1962

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Covington is one of those Insta Towns that happen when you run a road through the middle of nowhere. Maple Valley cut off (aka Hwy 18) at Kent-Kangley Road, basically, nothing there more than twenty years old. Not a long long way to T-Hi's kid's school, but actually not very close to anything.

mmmm -- must disagree with you there, Julia == Crest Air Park and the shopping center that marks its turn to base leg, have been there since well before 1974

I used to fly out of there quite often, my instructor lived there

yes. some of the strip malls added south and west of there, are newer, but Covington has been a nice residential community there for a lot more years than 20

also technically, Highway 18 is the Echo Lake cutoff, not the Maple Valley cutoff, though it DOES bisect part of Maple Valley,,,

Yeah, but was it called Covington then? It was never on any of the maps when we went cruising up that way. There's some old, old stuff up toward Black Diamond and the other old coal-mining places. There is a Covington-Sawyer Rd. to Lake Sawyer, though, so maybe it's older than I thought. All I know is that in the early nineties there were suddenly houses all over where no houses had been, and then a Fred Meyer's centered strip Mall, and then a bunch of condos, and then a Walmart.

Oh, also: everyone I know, and most particularly the guy I used to cruise with (who grew up on Newport Way by the pedestrian bridge to Lake Sammamish State Park), called it the Maple Valley cutoff. Heck, the guys who make the maps call it the Maple Valley cutoff when they're talking about it, although the traffic copters all call it Highway 18 now. I know where Maple Valley is, where is Echo Lake? Oh, now I see it, that teeny little lake south of 90- I could see calling it the Auburn-Echo Glen cut off, although it would give nightmares to a lot of people.

 

[Kaneke]

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mmmm -- must disagree with you there, Julia == Crest Air Park and the shopping center that marks its turn to base leg, have been there since well before 1974

I used to fly out of there quite often, my instructor lived there

yes. some of the strip malls added south and west of there, are newer, but Covington has been a nice residential community there for a lot more years than 20

also technically, Highway 18 is the Echo Lake cutoff, not the Maple Valley cutoff, though it DOES bisect part of Maple Valley,,,

Yeah, but was it called Covington then? It was never on any of the maps when we went cruising up that way. There's some old, old stuff up toward Black Diamond and the other old coal-mining places. There is a Covinton-Sawyer Rd. to Lake Sawyer, though, so maybe it's older than I thought. All I know is that in the early nineties there were suddenly houses all over where no houses had been, and then a Fred Meyer's centered strip Mall, and then a bunch of condos, and then a Walmart.

it's been Covington as long as I've lived in the area (1970) -- apparently named for a railway surveyor who set the railroad line across the area, one of the stops named for him, then the area around it was known by that name also .. Google it up, you will find the same articles I did when I checked

Covington was actually centered a bit off the highway ... you had to go across 272nd for close to a quarter mile, to get to the small shopping center there (2 fast food places, a supermarket, and a drugstore) ... then down past the school, across the railroad tracks, and another half mile up the hill to get to Crest, and most of the houses tucked under the trees along the road ... there had always been scattered stores along Kent-Kangley/272nd, but it wasn't until the overpass was completed over hwy 18, and the new library built near there, that much more retail construction started

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Yeah, but was it called Covington then? It was never on any of the maps when we went cruising up that way. There's some old, old stuff up toward Black Diamond and the other old coal-mining places. There is a Covinton-Sawyer Rd. to Lake Sawyer, though, so maybe it's older than I thought. All I know is that in the early nineties there were suddenly houses all over where no houses had been, and then a Fred Meyer's centered strip Mall, and then a bunch of condos, and then a Walmart.

it's been Covington as long as I've lived in the area (1970) -- apparently named for a railway surveyor who set the railroad line across the area, one of the stops named for him, then the area around it was known by that name also .. Google it up, you will find the same articles I did when I checked

Covington was actually centered a bit off the highway ... you had to go across 272nd for close to a quarter mile, to get to the small shopping center there (2 fast food places, a supermarket, and a drugstore) ... then down past the school, across the railroad tracks, and another half mile up the hill to get to Crest, and most of the houses tucked under the trees along the road ... there had always been scattered stores along Kent-Kangley/272nd, but it wasn't until the overpass was completed over hwy 18, and the new library built near there, that much more retail construction started

(Edited the post you responded to BTW)

A lot of the towns on that road were off the path of the road, and good for them, because unlike what used to be downtown and historic Tumwater, they still exist. Maple Valley proper, for instance- we got lost a few years ago following some directions that called for a turn on Petrovisky road while the Highway 18 Infinitely Prolonged Construction Project took down all the signs with "Petrovisky Road" on them, and wandered seriously lost into Maple Valley where we found a local map in a wonderful old 1920s era gas station/general store. I'd forgotten just how big and old the town was.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Just popping in for a quick hello and to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Hope everyone has a happy day with their family and friends and I am thankful for you all!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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[Greg Richardson]

CR. Only been to Covington once so couldn't give you a good description. I just remember going over Tiger Mountain to get there.
It has every store a person would need there. Lot bigger retail then I thought it would be. Some reason thought it was a small town.

 

[hallerlake]

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Pretty much just wanted the last sentence but why would anyone bother to fertilize a tree like that? Reminds me when we first moved here I was admiring all the trees and I remember a landscaper commenting how trees are weeds in WA. I love all the trees but have kept that in mind. I think madronas are nice to look at with their pretty bark and all but really hate that they are constantly dropping dead leaves and pretty much look dead most of the time. If it's in our way we cut it down, if it's not we leave it. No tears shed. You can send those hardwood people my way. I can sell them my 6' Madrona pieces and use the Gold to buy even more Madrona firewood. In my experience it takes a lot longer to burn than the Fir. When we stock the stove with Madrona at night there are still lots of nice coals in the morning.
Not so with fir.

People who buy a lot because it's got a mature madrona on it (and is there anything more beautiful?) and then want a nice bright-green lawn right up to the base of it- and poison it. I've finally got a Madrona the birds gave me- they are hard trees to chose a place to plant unless you're t the TOP of one of those unconsolodated glacial till cliffs (Dana has a nice patch to look at coming over Chambers Creek up the hill from the University Place Fred Meyers).

They look dead? Not if they're well-sited, and I'm immune to dropped leaves since I moved next to two acres of oak trees.

"Trees are weeds" is overly broad. Alders are green-manure, Cottonwoods are evidence that God wants us to pay attention, nobody needs Doug Fir in their yards what with God, the Forest Service and Weyerhaeuser planting them everywhere, and Oaks, Madrona, and Cascara are bird habitat.

(much much later)

I got distracted and left this behind, just came in from getting the Wyandotte coop to the point of moving the chickens in, callooo-callay, or would a moment of silence be more appropriate?

As soon as my emergency snack kicks in, the larger (and rebeared, Deirdre, I should have taken more photos!) offspring and I are going to go grab Ian and Sylvia, give them their Emprinex, and stick them in their new, clean, dry, windproof home, so YAY, right?


Any words of wisdom would be much appreciated.

They are weeds in the sense that they seed themselves everywhere. I pull up infant forests every spring.

 

[ultasol]

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Ayup: the manchild needs to be at work in E'burg at midnight tomorrow, though and he doesn't have a car to do it

He expects his Dad to drive: he hasn't lived here in a long while.

Sounds like my sister may not make it from Ellensburg for tomorrow. I keep telling her she needs to get a vehicle better suited to the passes.

Sure wish I could predict pass weather! All of the 'orphans' (no local family) are having a big dinner tomorrow, but I just found out we might have five more guests, depending on the passes. They were supposed to go to Seattle. The problem? I only took out one duck and a 12 lb turkey which will feed a couple extra people but not five. Hard to plan a dinner when your guest list might almost double last minute.

On another note- did some work at a mission out here today. Turns out they can't keep any leftover pumpkin pie because it is served at room temperature so, rather than toss it, brought it home. Turns out the waterfowl are fans. Never ever thought I'd be serving them a Thanksgiving dinner.

 

[hallerlake]

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How disappointing for her. I suspect you only mind on her account.