Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot Location: South Park Blocks in Portland, OR.
Tag: PacificNW
POD – Catching up
Gotta try a beer that is an IPA, a monkey on it, wearing a fez. It wasn’t bad. Liked how the candles glowed on the mantle. The last sunny day…..before the rains come. Which happens tomorrow. Fall/Winter in the Pacific NW.
POD – Weekend in Pictures
Rain all weekend – rain refilling my empty rain barrels. And forcing me to get out my foul weather rain coat for soccer games. And, the drive back from SG’s house was not fun. Too many Oregonians, ironically, forgetting how to drive in the rain. 5 accidents along the way. The guard dog – who…
POD – Evening Sky
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” ~ Buddha
POD – Garden Spider
“Will you walk into my parlor?” said the Spider to the Fly, ~The Spider and The Fly by Mary Howitt click here to read the full poem, if you are unfamiliar or if you simply want to re-read it. These webs are EVERYWHERE right now. The kids call them tiger spiders because of their markings,…
POD – Pulley and Rain
This is a serpentine belt idler pulley for a 2002 Subaru Outback v6. Notice the place where there should be bearings? Yeah, those clumps of metal were the bearings. Last Saturday, my serpentine belt came off while I was driving home from a run to the sporting goods store for soccer shoes, socks and shin…
Pictures and Words
So, I thought Friday: “Hey, that’s weird. I had no comments on my post.”Then I discovered that I had never hit the “publish” button on my post. Hate it when that happens. You’ll see it tomorrow SG had surgery yesterday. Our exchange via text while out for dinner and beers with a friend went like…
POD – Rain
“Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.”~Billie Holiday First day of school in Portland, so it means it has to rain. And rain it did. Sitting in my final meeting, you could hear it hitting the window like it was hailing out. But it was just raining. I definitely…
POD – Sandy River
The Sandy River is about 56 degrees this time of the year, and this section flows at a rate of about 1knot. You must be a good swimmer who loves cold to hang out in these waters. But, you know you are from Oregon when you do. Our water is not warm – it is…
POD – Dinner on the Columbia
After dealing with a migraine all day, G took me out for dinner – just him and I. We sat on the Columbia River with the nice breeze blowing through. We ate, had a beer, and watched the sailboats glide by us. It was so quiet that whenever the boats tacked, you could hear the…
