*Yes, I know it’s not the year 2000.  It’s always called that.  I don’t even think it started in 2000.  Portlanders, eh?
This weekend was the annual pig roast that my neighbors throw.  It is always quite an event and has come to mean that we’re in the peak of summer.  This year, I supplied buckets [...]

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In penance for my political digression in the last post, I took extra pictures.
The other day, I filled my gas tank, and it cost me $50. I drive a 4-cyl. Toyota (when I drive anything, which isn’t much). The oil companies are making RECORD profits, and all our government can come up with [...]

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It’s always surprising how we go from that “is anything ever going to grow around here?” thing to “good god, more peas?!”  The garden’s starting cranking out food, and we’re already chest-deep in potatoes, peas, strawberries (and more strawberries), broccoli, lettuce, carrots, and onions.  Not, you know, literally chest deep.  That’d be crazy.
A veritable rainbow [...]

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