Ah-HA!! I found this by searching the Seattle Times archives:

"This year's annual Perseid meteor shower will peak on the morning of
Aug. 12. Viewers may see up to 60 meteors per hour at locations away
from the glare of city lights."

So I most likely DID see shooting stars! This is way cool!


--- In pugetsoundchristiansingles@yahoogroups.com, "celebok"
<celebok@e...> wrote:
> Either I'm going crazy, my eyes are playing tricks on me, or I just
> saw a few shooting stars for the first time in my life!!! I was
just
> looking out my window on the north side of the building, and I was
> staring at the sky in the general vicinity of the Big Dipper, when
I
> saw what looked like a little zipping streak of light for just a
tiny
> fraction of a second. Like, I could've missed it if I'd blinked.
I
> kept staring at the sky for another ten minutes or so, and I saw at
> least two more, so it had to be something. I vaguely remember
> recently reading something about meteor showers on some local forum.