The Queen Anne View blog details a program for harvesting your fruit

The Queen Anne View blog details a program for harvesting your fruit trees for food banks, shelters, and other programs. A part of Solid Ground’s Lettuce Link program, the effort tries to cut down on wasted backyard fruit by not only giving you a list of places that will happily accept it, but also by offering volunteers to help pick it. Anyone with a plum tree out there can breathe a sigh of relief and do a good deed (unless you’re Jonathan Kauffman, who guards all of his plums as sacred).Word is the Wallyhood blog will add a user review feature to the mix. Community calendars and forums make sense, but should a community blog get in the review business? Don’t we have enough of that already? Should community blogs stick to cheerleading? Seems ripe for animosity.The Wallyhood blog is also where we learned that the Phinney Neighborhood Association is sponsoring a giant garage sale day this Saturday, September 12. Click the link for a guide map, or just cruise the hood for signs. Remember the rule of garage sales: You rarely if ever find anything good at a sale that advertises 1.) baby clothes, 2.) a futon or 3.) an aquarium. If you’ve never been to Picnic (6801 Greenwood Ave. N.), stop in on your rounds for a great selection of wine, cheese, cured meats and other, well, picnic supplies for an afternoon break in the hunting.