I am proud to announce that my lovely wife kicked butt at this IQ test. Three times in a row (while waiting on the chowder for which Moe’s is famous)! I think last time I came to Otter Rock (age 8?) I couldn’t beat this game. The chowder wasn’t as good as I remembered, but [...]
Tagged chowder, coast, Oregon, puzzle, testIt was 100 degrees last week and the experiment in no AC* was showing its weakness, so we took off for the coast. In the Williamette valley it was in the hundreds, but at the coast it was 70, and chilly at night. All that temperature difference also led to some interesting cloud/mist action along [...]
Tagged coast, fog, nature, OregonJamie Chabot has a photoblog and Flickr account where he posts photos of Mt Hood and other scenes, all taken out the window of his office, the 19th floor of a high-rise in downtown Portland. The Flickr stream is actually more interesting, I think. Related posts Finally, Sun (0) Woodring Tree (3) The Border (0) [...]
Tagged Mt. Hood, Oregon, photos, PortlandBleah! Another thing to think about when unable to sleep at night. Stumbled upon while researching warm springs in Oregon. Related posts Terrible Tilly (1) Mossy writin’ (0) Hail (2) Cape Perpetua (1) Canyoneering down Eagle Creek (1)
Tagged ameoba, Brain, hot springs, nature, OregonYesterday I left the house to drive to a client, sun shining, lovely day. Ten minutes later it hailed like anything, little sixteenth inch white balls covering everything, bouncing as they hit, knocking petals off trees. I was negotiating icy, baffled traffic so I didn’t get a chance to take a photo until the hail [...]
Tagged nature, Oregon, weatherA distant figure on a snowy mountain, only and hour from Portland! Bigfoot!!! Related posts Ranger Station for Sale (1)
Tagged bigfoot, cryptozoology, mountain, snow, Washington stateIn some states, you can get a growler–a container (sometimes from the bar/pub/brewery, typically a half-gallon) filled it with beer straight off the tap.You see it posted on beer list at bars and I recall that way back in Seattle days folks would come into La Boheme with mason jars and other containers to get [...]
Tagged beer, growler, OregonPortland is lousy with these lunch carts, most of them one-trick (often a tasty trick) affair set up at the edge spaces in a parking lot or a driveway. This cart sits off the intersection of Belmont and 34th avenue and I’ve yet to see it open. But if you look closely there’s still a [...]
Tagged burritos, Food, foodcarts, hippies, Oregon, PortlandEagle Creek is a beautiful, waterfall-full, and really really steep creek (anywhere else this would be called a river) that starts near Mt Hood and ends up, thousands of feet and a dozen miles later, at the near-sea-level Columbia River. It makes it way down a dramatic winding canyon, moss and near-rain-forest thickness growth around [...]
Tagged canyoneering, Columbia Gorge, Eagle Creek, kayak, nature, Oregon, oy, waterfallEven if you’ve been driving for years, if you want an Oregon drivers license you have to take a written test. Of course it’s mostly testing your knowledge of laws, not actual driving, and it has all the poor wording you might remember from the last time you had to take one of these tests. [...]
Tagged driving, driving test, Oregon, testsOne mile west of Tillamook Head on the Oregon coast sits a lonely rock with an empty seagull-poo-splattered lighthouse. This is its story. On October 21, 1879, four laborers were put on the rock. The rest of the crew followed five days later. Putting men on the rock entailed stringing a 4 ½” line from [...]
Tagged History, lighthouse, nature, Oregon, oy, stormsNow that I’m out west I need to learn to recognize the cousin of my old pal poison ivy, poison oak. This article helps explain what’s going on when you get a rash, the oil involved, the structure of the plants, “immunity” (it’s a myth), and some treatments. What surprised me about poison ivy and [...]
Tagged nature, plantsFound at the Fubonn grocery in southeast Portland. And yes, that’s five pounds of chili flakes. Related posts No related posts.
Tagged asian market, chilies, cockApproaching Portland from the east, near Biggs along the Columbia River. We have arriveded. Related posts Woodring Tree (3) Canyoneering down Eagle Creek (1) Useless GIF (5) The Written Test (3) The McFarthest Place (0)
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