Right now we are in the midst of dealing with rain coming through our roof. After seeing wet spots on the ceiling we tarped two areas. When that didn't work and another spot developed I called the roofer who installed our roof about seventeen years ago and has come out a few times to patch it after storms. He told me how to properly tarp it over the top and down the sides. (I did not plan on writing about this. I'm going to skip the details and wrap this up, it's making me anxious.) After discovering a soggy ceiling surrounding the wood stove chimney on Thanksgiving morning plus a spot wet again from a blown tarp, Tom said we are in Hell and I nodded and replied "water instead of fire". Was that before or after I saw a wet spot on the bedroom ceiling and running down the wall? I don't remember. Right now a wanna forget the six leaks, rain everyday, probably a whole new roof and gutter work when the weather permits.
Soooooo now let's gaze upon a few happy photos that I uploaded a couple weeks ago using Starbucks fast internet. When the weather was warm and wonderful.. And dry :-(
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| A view of Portland and a bamboo sculpture taken at the Japanese Garden, on a weekday, with my friend Marie. |
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| Gyro House. Yum |
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| There's my dining partner at Sharis on a Friday Night. Check out this deal. Prime rib dinner $12.99 and a half price bottle of wine $8.00-$9.00 Tom doesn't drink wine so we've never done it, but what deal! |
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| Starbucks on 185th where Tom can get a Chestnut Praline Latte and the New York Times. Girl on left danced and moved around for 15 minutes straight before her mom picked her up. Girl on right watching an old Meg Ryan movie and doing homework. Starbucks. |
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| Zien Hong Pepper Salted Squid. Best in the Portland metro area. It's Tom's treat when we have to drive all the way to a doctors appointment at Sunnyside. |
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| Goes well with Kung Pao Shrimp. |
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| That's a baby squid trying to get a cup of tea. |
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| We took a little road trip to St. Helens and shared a Reuben here at the Dockside. |
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| Yes here we are at another restaurant, Vivi's Vietnamese Grill. And yes, now I realize that every one of these photos is taken in a restaurant except the first one. Guess that's what we do for fun. We better exercise more. |
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| Surprise! Eating again. But this time it's not at a restaurant. It's at the 82nd Annual Verboort Sausage Festival at The Visitation Catholic Church in Verboort. In 1934 they served 150 dinners with 198 pounds of sausage. This year they served 8,000 dinners with 15 tons of locally made sausage. Everyone in the community volunteers. Rain is also a tradition for the festival. We went with my friend Jill and her husband Rick. Jill's car got stuck in the mud when we arrived. At departure time Rick went to get the car out of the mud while we played Bingo. Tom won blackout and got to split the pot with one other winner! He won $2.50! |
