tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50438782011-04-21T15:46:57.040-07:00pics and comments from a patent attorney/ former crew coach/sometimes runner/gardener/geek/ lover of beer/native and lover of PortlandThe Brooklynitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09423872232049813180noreply@blogger.comBlogger2361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043878.post-81641192883180561482007-03-25T15:32:00.001-07:002007-03-25T16:02:16.634-07:00

Christmas on Lafayette 2006In catching up this blog I'm now at Christmas 2006. We had wonderful bushy doug fir christmas tree with lots and lot of presents this year.We had fun continuing our tradition of going out for Pho at Pho Hung and then heading to the boy scouts tree lot at St. Ignatius on Powell. We got our trees from this same troop when I was a little kid. After getting it up we

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More Views of Our Feline CompanionsContinuing in my attempt to play catch-up with this blog, I moved onto my December 2006 picture directory and decided we needed a special post dedicated to our cats, especially since most of the photos stored in that directory seem to be of them.First, a reintroduction. Here is Bo and Oscar enjoying a fleece blanket nap with A. Bo absolutely cannot resist the

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The Garden Plot in ReviewWith the recent nice 70 degree weather (last year that didn't happen until mid-April), my thoughts turn to my yard. Yesterday I mowed the lawn for the first time this season. We've already had crocuses and mini-irises come and go and the daffodils fill our neighborhood.Last year I created a garden space where once stood an ugly metal shed and I documented its progress

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The Spirit of Halloween......filled our home (as usual). A got busy and after she filled our home with lots and lots of Halloween goodies she added more to the yard transforming this flower patch into a Halloween greeting:And then she did a great job of dressing up our flamingos as trick-or-treaters complete with tiara for the princess:We went to my sister's annual pumpkin carving gathering and

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A Late Fall HarvestAfter returning from New York, we were graced with yet more sunny and relatively warm weather that allowed A and I to get one more big harvest from the garden. Here's a shot of the overall bounty inlcuding lettuce, peppers, tomatoes of various ripeness and tomotillas that never really did fully ripen:The peppers we stashed away and dried. In mid-March we're still dipping into

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Far Above Cayuga's Waters...A and I travelled by car from NYC up to Ithaca to visit my alma mater, Cornell University, for Homecoming weekend. I had not been to campus for something like twelve or thirteen years. We got into Ithaca Thursday afternoon in time for me to go with the Lightweight Crew Coach in his launch for practice. That was a fantastic experience. We were evenable to get well

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Picking up from where I left off, a trip to NYCSo I've obviously neglected this poor blog for months. I recently got an email from a college buddy that I visited in New York back in October prodding me to update this blog. Well just I began editing digital photos from that trip and planning on doing the same with more and later photos my computer went kaput. I finally figured out that it was a

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A Fall Visit to Hood RiverA & I drove out to Hood River on Sunday afternoon after we tried to catch our friend Katie who was running the Portland Marathon. We waited until will after she was supposed to be at the 21 mile mark and never saw her. I hope she is okay and that we just didn't see her.Out in Hood River we went to the Rasmussen Farm where it was the opening day of Pumpkin Fun Land!! We

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Ooompah! Prost!A & I went to the Oaks Park Oktoberfest. Good Paulaner beers on tap, decent trinkets for sale including some folks making intricately decorative glass beads of which A bought a few, and rip-roarin' polka tunes. We left around 10 pm and things were really just getting going in the beer tent. This is the lead singer and accordian player of one of the bands, getting the crowd very

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I say po-tay-toe, you say po-tah-toeThis is the first year that I have ever grown potatoes. We planted red, white and blue varieties for obvious reasons. The blues are wonderfully sweet and very potatoey tasting. Here's some of our reds:We were invited to a wonderful Harvest party a couple of weekends ago. So I decided I would dig up some of the crop that afternoon, slice 'em up and fry up some

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Lets Go To The BeachIn mid-September, A & I were joined by our friends Paul & Sheila for a weekend at the Sea Rose Bed & Breakfast in Oceanside. On the way there we stopped in Tillamook to acquire some snacks for the weekend and ran into a steady rain. But by the time we came over the hill and down into Oceanside, we were greeted with blue skies and sunshine.On Saturday we went over to the Cape

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More StairsIn my continuing updates from September, I had to rebuild my front porch stairs lest the mailman step through the rotting steps sometime this coming winter. This time, I am proud to say that I custom-built them all by myself. I had to design a more gentle slope so that the stairs would actually land on the concrete and not just dirt. That also meant doing some custom fitting at the

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Early September Shot of Garden PlotHere is the garden plot as of early September:We have about a dozen pumpkins that are all medium sized, orange and almost perfectly jack-o-lantern-shaped.The sunflowers went nuts with this one reaching far above the eaves of the neighbor's "barn."I'll get some update shots this next week of the plot showing the decline of Fall but the resurgence of the

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More Garden DelightThis has been my best year for tomatoes ever at the Lafayette Street home. We have a half dozen varieties of romas, plums, beefsteaks and cherries. Here's one harvest's worth:We have yellow romas and yellow/orange cherries. The cherry tomatoes are volunteers that have come up every year I have gardened since I bought the place in 1994. We decided to make a yellow marinara

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Keepin' it coolWe had one of our more consistently warmer/hot summers that extended well into September this year. With many days over 90 and some approaching or breaking 100, we added a new cooling device to our home: the kiddie pool. Just sitting next to it in the shade with our feet submerged really helped to keep our cool.

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Sunday Dinner FiascoTwo weekends ago (the same weekend as the wonderful Lasagna Experience and the Bridge Pedal), on Sunday, we decided to make onion rings out of the big sweet Walla Walla variety onion from my parents' garden. I guess that after the previous evening's culinary success and many previous successes, we were feeling cocky.We got out the fryer/steamer we got as a wedding present and

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I Want To Ride My BicycleFor the second year in a row I rode the Bridge Pedal with A, though this year we did the full 30-plus mile, 10-bridge ride. It did seem slightly better organized this year at least with the timing of riders. Evidence of that is in these two pictures from the top deck of the Marquam Bridge. Last year, it was so crowded on top of that bridge, the ride came to a complete

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Reaping the Beginnings of Our HarvestThe tomatoes have arrived!! So we decided to make a lasagna using sauce made from scratch. Here is the delightful array of paste, plum and cherry tomatoes we used to make the sauce:The sauce ws yummy and the most important part of a lasgna, the cheese, was exceptional including fresh mozarella, parmesan and my not-so-secret cheese: smoked gouda. Here's a

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Summer Evening DinnerI apologize for the delay but the title of the blog is "not really daily" for a reason. Anyways, a few weekends ago A & I made chicken schnitzel with some mushroom gravy and ate out in our yard as we tend to do often in the summertime.The schnitzel could have been a little thinner but it was quite yummy and went well with the bubbly we chose for that evening.As we finished

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Bojack HijackedAnyone heard from Bojack? It looks to me like his domain got hijacked this morning.

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The RipeningMy various veggies are in the ripening stage. These Black Plum Tomatoes have a few that are almost ready:And these romas turned out to be a beautiful golden color when ripe. Lokks like it's time to make some marinara:My peppers are little farther behind. I have one Hidalgo just beginning to turn red and this pimiento is beginning to see some color:I tried a new one this year. I've

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A Plea for a Replacement H2C RunnerI came to the momentous decision that I really did not want to run in the Hood-to-Coast at the end of this month. The problem is I've alredy committed to my sister's long running (so-to-speak) and extremely well organized team, The Generics. So I need a male replacement runner to take my place on the team. Time is running out (there is that word again).

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"And she's buying a stairway to ..."...my back porch. More on that in little bit. First, I started off the weekend appropriately at the Oregon Brewers Festival on Friday afternoon with A (Yes, Andy B. that is exactly where we were at!). We got there around 1 pm and left around 7 pm via bicycle. There were many, many great beers and lots of good company including three separate former ORU

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The Garden Plot UpdateI've put together a montage of one of my garden plots starting with the original clearing and planting (late April?) and ending with its latest state of lushness:Here's another angle of the latest version showing the pumpkins in the foreground and the blossoming sunflowers in the back:We already have some pumpkins of size growing and no surprise with the size of the blossoms

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Daisy, Daisy,Give me your answer do!I'm half crazy,All for the love of you!

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Garden Plot UpdateHere is our one garden plot on the far side of the yard. Be sure to compare to the two earlier pictures of the same plot here and here.

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Been Almost a Month.......since I last posted. I guess I've been busy getting older (turned 40 on the 11th), gardening, watching lots of soccer and now cycling and working.A few weeks ago, our neighbors had a pirate-themed party. So, of course, we had to dress up the flamingos for the occasion.At the party, A convincingly dressed up as a pirate wench. Her "costume" got lots of compliments and

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Drifting Down the WillametteLast weekend A & I helped out once again with the 8th Corvallis-to-Portland Row, or CPR VIII as it is known. I stayed on land this year to help coordinate the rest stops, Saturday Dinner, Sunday breakfast and the overall timing of the rowers. I sent the results to Row2k, but Ed hasn't posted them yet.One of the cool parts of this crazy day-and-a-half long row is

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Back Home from PhiladelphiaWhat a fantastic trip it was. I flew into Philly on Thursday night, got my rental car and drove into the heart of Philly to meet up with a fraternity brother who thankfully agreed to put me up on his couch for the night. He lives in a really neighborhood just north of 10th and South Street. Here's a shot I took with my cell phone as left at 6 am the following morning:I

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The Rains ReturnAfter a wonderfully dry number of weeks, a consistent rain has returned to the Rose City. Though, it is a strange rain being circulated up from the south by an upper level low. We even had some spectacular little thunderboomers on Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening. Last night, A & I had dinner outside in the rain under a canopy next to our chimenea. We were outside mainly

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Mandatory Rhododendron PostOur magnificient Rhody is in full blossom again. I just love the bright white with purple center.Our Columbines we planted a few years have continued to return.The mild spring and my absence from coaching crew has let me get an earlier start on the yard and garden. I've already rototilled the major portions including where my old metal shed used to be:I've already

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Alis Volat PropiisWe went to the beach this weekend so that I could attend a patent law conference. A got in some great beach combing and on Sunday morning the weather cleared up for a nice walk on the Siletz Bay Spit that is part of the Salishan resort.On the way home, we finally took the time to stop at the Air Museum in McMinnville. It was well worth the visit. It reminded me a lot of my

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"...but I know, it's my own damn fault."Here's a great shot of last week's official first-70-degree-day-of-the-year margaritas in cool glasses we got as a wedding gift. We love these glasses because we first saw and used them at Quark's Bar at the Star Trek Experience in Vegas back in 2000.And, A acquired some nifty little sombreros so that our flamingos can celebrate the upcoming Cinco de Mayo.

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Happy Earth Day!!Greetings from our little blue dot. It is also my parents' 45th wedding anniversy (yeah Mom and Dad!) and my old roommate's 39th b-day (Happy Birthday Z!).A & I made a road trip to Portland Nursery and spent the rest of our wedding gift certificates on compost, a fuschia, some flowers and some bean seeds. Before, I got started digging in the dirt, which is an appropriate Earth

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Spring has finally sprungIt seems like in the last four or five days our crab apple trees have exploded with blossoms. And yesterday was the official first 70 degree day of the year with the official Portland temperature out at the airport reaching 70 in the early evening. After attempting to rototill parts of my yard (still too muddy), we had dinner and I made some kick-booty 70-degree-day

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Happy Easter!!We've taken to "dressing" our flamingos for various holidays. It started two xmas's ago when we placed a santa hat on our one flamingo. This year I purchased a second flamingo with a working motor and we added a wreath to the xmas display. We had 'em in beads and masks for Mardi Gras. And now we have Easter Flamingos. The tulips add a nice touch.Ran my short run again this

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Swollen PawOur little kitten Oscar successfully caught a bee right out of mid-air resulting him getting stung. He is otherwise fine and doesn't even really favor the swollen paw. It seems like it itches.Weight this morning after breakfast: 165.

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Kitten in a boxEveryone loves a kitten in a box. And Oscar loves boxes.I ran ever so briefly yesterday evening. It seemed like forever for me to recover. I do not like starting over from scratch, but I need to do it. Weight this morning: steady at 168. Resting HR: a healthy 66.

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I'm back (maybe...we'll see)It's been a busy number of months in my life since I last posted. Not long after the bike ride, we acquired a new kitten from the Humane Society as a friend for our wonderful cat, Bo. Badger was his name and he was so cute as can be seen here:I use the past tense because, unfortunately, he was taken away from us rather quickly by a disease named FIP. He was put to

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Bridge Pedal FunI finally participated in the Providence Bridge Pedal yesterday. A & I set out from the Start line at about 8 am. The weather was perfect and the bridges were crowded...with bicyclists.Here's A from the Marquam Bridge:A postcard-perfect shot that you can only get from the top deck of the Marquam:A fellow cyclist took this picture of A & I from the Fremont Bridge:And finally, a

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Beer, beer, wonderful beer!!!Tomorrow I'll head out of work early (~1 pm or so) to attend the 18th Annual Oregon Brewer's Festival.

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Owie, owie!!A and I are sore after a long weekend of sharing a rented full-size drop-box with our neighbors. She cleared out the basement and both of us worked at clearing out a big pile. Here's the before picture of the pile:And here's the after picture:

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More Kitty PicturesOur Bo likes to hang out in the jungle.Don't hate me because I'm beautiful

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Our cat Bo likes the sunny mornings.

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How does your garden grow?A late start, but the flowers are starting to blossom and fill in.And a fuschia in a hanging basket always helps.

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I share my home with a jaguar.

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Fruit of the GardenA spectacular bounty that tasted perfectly sweet and warmed from the sun.

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Enjoying the Summer EveningWe lit a fire, opened some wine, had some dinner and listened to the Blues Fest on KBOO.

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Core DumpIt's been a busy month since the rowing event. First, some pictures from my birthday trip to Vegas:A view from poolside (it was about 95 degrees)A shot of A and I before we headed out to dinner and then to Cirque de Soleil's Mystere.My surf and turf birthday dinner at the Buccaneer Bay Restaurant in Treasure Island.A shot of the faux Shpinx at the Luxor.And then there was that crazy

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Crazy RowingThis last weekend A and I helped organize, support and run this crazy rowing event inspired by legendary (at least in his own mind) rower Tiff "The Hammer" Wood called CPR VII, which stands for the seventh Corvallis to Portland Row. That's 115 miles of rowing in crew shells over a day and a half. The total amount of rowings times ranged from just over 11 hours to just over 15 hours

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Kitty's First BirdBo caught his first bird tonight while I was working in the yard and A was hanging out in the hammock. I'd like to believe that this is a harbinger of my blueberries staying safe.

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I'm baaack!Spring was busy, but now I'm finished with another crew season. First, a picture from a week-plus ago of my rhodedendron. The rain has since finished this year's blossoms off:Next, I live in Brooklyn named for the nearby Brooklyn Railyard. My former job involved the building of railroad freight cars. I got to see this beauty today parked right at the end of Lafayette Street:

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I saw this on Milwaukie Avenue this morning. This was the second of two ugly, beat-up ranch style houses that someone was paying to be moved. I have no idea why anyone would want these houses, let alone move them.

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Happy Easter! I dyed eggs with A for the first time in many, many years.

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This is one of the LC crews I coach in the morning. The picture was taken by Nate Laffin. I get up at 4:38 am every weekday morning to coach these guys.

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This is a shot of the Willamette River from the Lewis & Clark College Sailing dock looking north toward the Sellwood Bridge. I took it as I was leaving from another beautiful morning crew practice.

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The official high at the airport was 72 today. Therefore, time for a margarita. And, I am of the school that margaritas do not contain "margarita mix" or "sweet-n-sour" mix. All you really need is good tequila (check!), cointreau (check!) and real lime juice (check!). No salt for me.

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A planted beautiful crocuses this year.

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There was a party on Lafayette Street last night. It was this guy's birthday:There was fun painting with spray paints on a big swath of cardboard. Here, A is enjoying herself:She painted "LAFAYETTE" on the cardboard. Fun was had by all.

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First, I cut a hole in my front door and installed a mail slot in response to my fear of having my tax refund stolen.Then I took a bit of rest in this:And looked straight up at this view:

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Our mild weather allowed me to mow the lawn, prune my roses and even plant three blueberry bushes. The twig in the middle of the second picture is what will eventually be blueberries.

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Heart-shaped pizza and good (Argyle) champagne is our Valentine's Day tradition. You gotta love it when the bar tab exceeds the food tab.

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Bo's ready for Mardi Gras. Are you?

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Fat Tuesday is this week. Preparations by the Krewe of Lafayette have commenced.

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We got A a new car. Well, a used 1998 Kia. It's a reliable, green tin can on wheels.

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What a difference a couple of days can make. This was taken at about 8:10 pm and that outdoor temp is pretty darn accurate. Because of the gorge, however, it was still only 39 degrees at the airport.

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Hmmm. My last post may have jinxed us. The following are scenes of our wintry weather. Oh well. It is supposed to be 56 degrees by Thursday.

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It may be snowing and ragin' elsewhere in the country. This view typifies our mild Oregon winter. It's a view out the back window of our house.

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On Saturday, I captured this shot of snow at the top of Cape Lookout with the breakers from the beach at oceanside in the foreground. It never quite snowed on the beach.

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Big News!! I proposed to A on Friday at the Beach. Thankfully, she accepted.

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We don't need no stinkin' rat traps. Bo rocks!!! (And, ugh, it was a rat) Addendum: Bo rocks less. He got cocky and let the damn rat get away!

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I thought we had squirrels in our half-remodeled attic. Then I saw what I thought was a rat this last weekend in the kitchen. Less than 5 minutes after deploying this cartoon-like trap with actual cheese, it nailed something that left blood but not a body.

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Happy New Year!!!!!

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I gave A a pair of these for xmas. She likes them.

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My sister gave me this flamingo last year for xmas.

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It's getting downright festive around here.

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Quite possibly the best of the Winter/Christmas Ales. And 30 years running for those craft beer pioneers, Anchor Brewing.

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Tonight we went here to get our tree, which is where my family has been getting trees since I think my father was a kid in the 1940s (Boy Scout Troop 531 at St. Iggy's on Powell). We got a big one this year and we had to do this to get it home. And after we wrestled it into the house, here it is in our living room (note that the ceilings are 10 1/2 feet high).

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Kickoff, yesterday, for the Oregon 4A high school football championships.

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I finally got this season's cold. Best darn over-the-counter narcotic money can buy.

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My regal kitty, Bo, caught in profile.

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Winter Ale Fest under the transparent tent that fends off the cold rain.

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I was in San Francisco for three days for a training conference.

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It was bountiful... Before: During: After:

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PDX Tuesday night before Thanksgiving, picking up my SO's Mom.

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I harvested these mustard greens last night for dinner.

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Another beautiful noontime in downtown Portland.

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I think they'll all be down by week's end.

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blurry picture but amazing music in a living room in NE Portland. That's Robin Cutler performing.

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Blazers won 105-102.

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wine and amazing italian cheese at Vino in Sellwood tonight.

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This first shot is my late-planted (~mid July) pumpkin in mid August. This second shot is of the same pumpkin this morning. It's still pretty green. With no frost occurring yet, I'm leaving it on to see if we can have some pumpkin for Thanksgiving.

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This is a miniature version of what I used to build.

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An Irrational Fear of the Number 11 It of course started with 9/11. Sometime after those horrific events I contemplated that people with that birthday are now burdened to share that day with that infamous act of terror. Then came the 4/11 Madrid bombings. Now the fear started to turn selfishly personal. See, my birthday is this Friday, 6/11. And with the events of this past week, namely the

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I'm Baaack!!! My absence can only be explained by the extreme stress of the last two months of law school. But that is all over now. I passed all my classes, even getting my second Law School "A" in Property Transactions. Tonight I am attending an award ceremony for the law school's Cornelius Honor Society (or something of that sort). I was surprised and honored to receive this award. It is

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A Morning Institution Ends I just found out that NPR is booting Bob Edwards from his longtime (since 1979) post as host of Morning Edition. He has become an American Institution. And to be forced out?? It's already bad enough when local OPB switches their morning hosts on an almost rotating basis just when you finally get used to one. OPB's latest host can't even pronounce Oregon/Portland

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More Moot Court I was just informed via email that I earned the Best Oral Advocate award for the regional competition for the second year in a row. We left yesterday before the final round because we could catch an earlier flight home that way. Last year, the organizer hinted that I should stay for the final round and did. This year I think we escaped without her notice. But it does make me

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Post Moot Court We made it to the semifinals again and once again we were edged out by BYU's first team. However, we feel we argued better then them in that semi round. All we can guess is that their appellee brief score was higher than our appellate brief score. It was very frustrating because we thought we had higher brief scores (in general) than BYU this year as compared to last year. But

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SF and Moot Court day 1 San Francisco is just flat out beautiful. It's character is so unique. The funkiness of the older buildings (of course none or few older than from 1906) cannot be found anywhere else on the west coast. We're staying at the Catherdral Hill Hotel which unfortunately has no wireless access, either free or charged. However, I did find an internet cafe three blocks away and

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Off to San Francisco . . . to compete in the western regional IP Moot Court competition. From the seeding of teams for the first two rounds it looks like my team is at least in the top 3 for brief scores because we are one of three teams getting a bye out of the first round. My teammate and I get to observe the first round so that we will have a better idea of what to expect on Saturday in the

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