Boat Stuff

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It occurred to me that I never mentioned that we sold the boat. Ended up selling it to the first people that looked at it, though it still managed to be about a four-month process. Initial offer was ridiculous. A month passed, another offer came along. The haggling I was … Read More

Doggie in the Window

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Back at Grammy’s one day Ouest surprised her with a song. Grammy has always talked about how she had wanted so badly to play the piano, but when she was a kid they were far too poor to even consider such a thing. So she was over the moon when … Read More

Swim Camp

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Ouest and I hopped the border and headed off to Oregon for a visit with Grammy and a swim camp at Oregon State University. Bridget was very very happy to see Ouest. We went over to Aunt Beth’s, the quintessential NE Portland home  with a lovely backyard teeming with flowers … Read More

Abundance

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I think we underestimated just how long it would take to find furniture. Eventually we just started having carpenters build stuff instead. I have no license plate on the motorcycle I’ve been driving around for the past few months. Nobody seems to care. There are traffic cops standing all over … Read More

Timmies

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Lowe and I hopped on the bike and went off for a ride out of town one morning, after first stopping off to enjoy the view from up above. The landscape has gone from brown to green in a matter of days. The Laja River flows past San Miguel to … Read More