Today Jim took me to Forest Park, a large urban forest in the hills overlooking downtown portland and Vancouver, WA. We were at the highest point in the park today – 1,100 ft. Nice clear day at about 65 degrees. We hiked about 3.5 miles. Forest Park, a municipal park in…
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NJ to Oregon travelogue, day 4
​Tues, Oct. 4: Started the day with 1700 miles to go and ended with 1200 to go. Had a call with Phil, our mover, to update him on progress. Basically if we cannot be there by Friday morning he initially said he wouldn’t be able to deliver our stuff until…
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NJ to Oregon travelogue, day 3
​Monday, Oct. 3: We have 1,966 miles to go. Will reach halfway point tomorrow. The journey has included seven states – New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. Tomorrow we will go into Nebraska, weather permitting, and see Irvin and Janet and Erin and Art. We drove a…
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NJ to Oregon travelogue, day 2
Sunday morning, Oct. 2: Left at 10 am. Silver was good all night (slept on the bed) and Sophy slept well. So did we, despite having a smoke smell in the room. Silver didn’t have a BM so I walked him on his kitty harness when we stop. Although he…
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NJ to Oregon travelogue, day 1
Saturday, Oct. 1: Got a late start around noon because we needed to cash the security deposit check and trim down what we are bringing with us. Heartfelt hugs with Marilyn and Jessica, who is staying a couple weeks and flying to Portland from DC. Silver was quiet and well…
Male-female duets remind me of ephemeral beauty
On waking this morning, I found that a song was living in my head. The song is “Dust to Dust” by The Civil Wars, a duo that is no longer together. Listen on Spotify -Â https://open.spotify.com/track/5P6ZBMWS66FVo6deJaDdHy. I discovered this amazing group too late, it seems. The haunting acoustic melody has a…
Big and tall clothing store needs an in-store makeover
I visited a men’s clothing store with my husband today. He was there to buy a suit for a job interview (he had lost weight and the old one was too big). My husband is a big AND tall guy – a real teddy bear type. He’s hard to buy clothes…
How my delivery of groceries saved me some energy – and the value of that
I was schedule challenged this week and experimented with grocery delivery service to save time and energy normally spent grocery shopping and loading/unloading food. I find this to be an exhausting and thankless task and frankly, I hate it. So I spent half an hour on a grocery shopping site and had the groceries delivered. While it successfully saved me a lot of time, it also resulted in 25% of my items being substituted because they weren’t in stock.
Injuries from running of bulls affirm my belief in human foolishness
Virtual fishing rod = about $1 US dollar
Getting into the Hall of Fame = about $75 US dollars
Beating the top fisherperson in Second Life = way too expensive and time consuming. But it would be fun to try.
Mimsy thoughts while editing my email address book
Perhaps it is this imminent marriage of my 8-years-younger brother Alfredo which has me thinking in a mimsy way while editing my address book.