The Astro near our house has been closed for quite a long time. They needed to replace their big tanks. They also put in a new digital sign.
Matt was away, and I took the picture to show him it was finally open. But I am posting the picture to capture that I walked by when they were removing one of the gasoline tanks and it was huge. It was taller than me, easily and probably the length of two cars.
I had no idea such big infrastructure existed.
Just in the nick of time!
This is a fun postcard. On the back, there’s a map of the coast that lists all the lighthouses on the front. Very nice find.
Sara reports from Newport that she and Shawn went to get pearl onions for the peas as one part of their holiday dinner.
When Pope Benedict died, there was one story in my daily email of Guardian stories. Here are four about Pelé.
I think we can see who this media platform finds to be the most important.
Once upon a time (say, last week) the house at 1516 N. Winchell Street had two monkey puzzle trees framing its entrance. Now there is just one. And a big mess.
This was such a big tree, I’m actually surprised I didn’t hear it fall.
Aside from blocking the road, it also did some major damage to this car.
While some monkey puzzle trees in Portland are from the Lewis & Clark Exposition, this house was built in 1927, long after the exposition closed. But I bet the trees were planted around the time the house was built.
Sara and Shawn arrived in Portland last night, and we had a good dinner at Swift and Union. (We were perhaps going to have a fancy dinner elsewhere, but the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is a bad time for fancy restaurants. A lot of them were closed for the week.)
The next day Shawn dropped Sara off at our place and drove home. We both worked until lunch, and then had a good lunch at Broder and I drove her to the airport.
It was a fun quick trip!
This one is from friend Zoe and is of a lovely building on her campus.
At the moment I’m typing this, I can’t put my hands on the postcard in question. I remember it had a fun message.
There’s a lot going on on this postcard! It’s a map from a mural to a store (or vice versa). It’s a picture of the mural at the end of the walking tour. It’s pictures of iconic Eureka buildings.
Sara reports that it’s a wonderful walk and that she saw the artist paint parts of the mural.
Sara also is excited about her upcoming visit to Portland made possible by flights to Coeur d’Alene being cheaper from Portland than from Arcata.
Ariel points out that Demi (of Bunhead Bros) is correct in his observation that this episode is LOUD. I also learned that she hated town meetings in Gilmore Girls, as there was a town-meeting-type thing in this. I greatly enjoyed the town meetings.
We both agreed that it was good to see Sean Gunn, and also that his story was not great.
Here’s one. Mike Bennett had a popup shop near the Living Room Theaters and I bought this cute little ornament that has the old PDX airport carpet on it.
And the card holder has filled up nicely, though I know more are to come. When your card senders are teachers, often the cards aren’t dealt with until winter break begins.
And that’s it. Perhaps next year the decorations can start to appear again.
