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Super Moon with bonus eclipse

I was in the middle of cooking, but Matt dragged me out four times to look at the progress. Here’s my shoddy capture of the event.

Three sentence movie reviews: Kubo and the Two Strings

Being a terrible hometown supporter of animation studios, this is the first Laika feature I’ve seen. I found it to be an engaging tale and I particularly enjoyed the origami storytelling. There’s some good mom stuff in this movie.

Cost: free, due to hotel package
Where watched: McMenamins Olympic Club

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2016/kubo_and_the_two_strings.html

Found because I walked on the opposite side of the street.

People familier with me will not be surprised to know that I tend to walk certain specific routes from place to place. I encounter this tree on one of my routes home from the library. However, I usually walk under it, not on the opposite side of the street.

But in doing so, look what I discovered hiding.

Writing Prompt II

Same intersection, different day. How can there be more pizza?

Parting Gift

The lovely Mary, an 80+-year-old volunteer at school, sent me off to my new job with a book and a handmade card made with her photographs. I will miss Mary. And not just because she gives me things.

Last day at the North Portland Library

My new 40-hour per week job means no more volunteering for Teen Lounge at the North Portland Library. Today is my last day. There were never many teens at teen lounge, but I did enjoy two solid hours each week to write these blog posts. And I really enjoyed the setting. The woodwork is beautiful, much darker in real life than in this picture.

I sometimes have this problem at the movies

That’s my classic too-many-white-guys-in-suits problem! It’s ruined several movies with amazing twists that would astound me if I could realize that that guy in the suit is a totally different character than that other guy in a suit.

On the way to volunteering

The renovation of Eddie’s Flat Iron Pizza building has been going on since at least May. I’m not sure why it’s taking so long. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what the plan is, but for sure they are splitting the space into to spaces. There was a lot of work going on on the right side of this picture, before it spread around to the front. But I think they are also taking off the early 80s pink-ish tile and have some plan for a new surface. But look what was underneath! I love to find old signage on buildings.

It used to be a place called the Ice Cream Bowl. And I bet there used to be a stucco exterior and a lot of deco glass blocks once upon a time too.

As an update on 9/23, I walked by and they have hacked away this entire porch/entrance structure. The entrance is now flat with the tiled area. I was disappointed to see it go, so much so that I didn’t take a picture.

Just up the block you can see an unfortunate thing that happened over the summer. I’m guessing fireworks, but I don’t know for sure.