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We spent Sunday afternoon with old friends at their house – we’ve known them since Tom worked with “G” at Peat Marwick nearly 20 years ago. Really good to see old friends…
Their son, who’s been raised in the Pacific Northwest, had an interesting observation last time he was down in Anaheim/Southern California. He kept looking out the windows of the airport shuttle, worried, and finally asked his father, “Dad, what happened here? What killed all the plants”. It was a great thing to notice. For those of you NOT from Southern California, our trees and plants are much browner, dead looking, than the Northwest.
Rain. Our car got splattered with dozens of bugs on the 2 ½ day drive up from LA to Portland. Brown bugs. Black ones. Yellow ones. Even purple ones. The front of the car looked so bad we actually wondered what our new neighbors would think of us.
While there hasn’t been much rain since we arrived 10 days ago, there’s been enough to clean the car without doing anything. A benefit to the rains?
Monday we filled our day up with a myriad of smaller things. First, we drove around the Northwest neighborhoods of Arlington Heights and Washington Park, looking at houses and trying to imagine if we could live in this area. Then, we stopped by Ken’s Bakery (http://www.kensartisan.com/) to pick up some bread to have around the house. This was our second bread purchase there. Then we took an hour walk along the Portland city waterfront (picture). And then we had lunch at Clyde Common (Maxine’s description follows this entry). And then we went to the Lucky Lab (see separate entry). Tuesday we’re mostly going to stay at home and catch up on things (aside from going to see Angels & Demons, and out for dinner)
Their son, who’s been raised in the Pacific Northwest, had an interesting observation last time he was down in Anaheim/Southern California. He kept looking out the windows of the airport shuttle, worried, and finally asked his father, “Dad, what happened here? What killed all the plants”. It was a great thing to notice. For those of you NOT from Southern California, our trees and plants are much browner, dead looking, than the Northwest.
Rain. Our car got splattered with dozens of bugs on the 2 ½ day drive up from LA to Portland. Brown bugs. Black ones. Yellow ones. Even purple ones. The front of the car looked so bad we actually wondered what our new neighbors would think of us.
While there hasn’t been much rain since we arrived 10 days ago, there’s been enough to clean the car without doing anything. A benefit to the rains?
Monday we filled our day up with a myriad of smaller things. First, we drove around the Northwest neighborhoods of Arlington Heights and Washington Park, looking at houses and trying to imagine if we could live in this area. Then, we stopped by Ken’s Bakery (http://www.kensartisan.com/) to pick up some bread to have around the house. This was our second bread purchase there. Then we took an hour walk along the Portland city waterfront (picture). And then we had lunch at Clyde Common (Maxine’s description follows this entry). And then we went to the Lucky Lab (see separate entry). Tuesday we’re mostly going to stay at home and catch up on things (aside from going to see Angels & Demons, and out for dinner)
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