Tomorrow should be a Perfect day to bike around SE Portland, first of all it is Hawthorne street days ( Read more... )

I was doing dishes and saw two guys walking down across the street and said to cheetah_fanatic"Ohhh...look at the cute Mohauk guy..." the Mohauk guy heard me and looked over to the house....whoops ( Read more... )

Since we had so little productivity last weekend because of my birthday, this week was filled with work. Well timed, since we did not have any social invitations for the first time in a few weeks ( Read more... )

Over the past nine months cheetah_fanatic has been using a sample piece of "green e-board" as a coaster. This was touted as being an environmentally friendly drywall substitute that had low carbon emissions, used "recycled products and fibers" and would be strong enough to last for the lifetime of the house ( Read more... )

If you have not heard, they tore down the Canterbury Castle. It was one of only two castles in Portland. It stood atop the SW Hills since the 1930's. Read a History here ( Read more... )

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The garden seems to be going great. The tomatoes and peppers are growing, albeit slowly. I do think that as soon as we get another hot extended dry spell they will shoot up fast and in a mater of two weeks or so they will be covered with flowers. The lettuce just keeps coming and coming....plus a few of the cabbages are close to harvest. ( Read more... )

Went to pride weekend. It started with hanging the flag the day before of course. Turns out that our across the street lesbian couple's neighbor's family from Wyoming was visiting. We did not know of course ( Read more... )

I am finishing up the insulating job UNDER the back porch I started last fall.

YUCK. This is an AWFUL job....luckily it is almost done.

We need an affordable and hip barber so we can look cute for pride this weekend. Does anyone have one they like who would enjoy cutting a Mohauk? I am sick of getting my hair in my eyes...plus I want to die and spike it for the weekend. We had one in Montavilla picked out but we can not get a hold of him....

cheetah_fanatic just needs a normal "annual long ( Read more... )