Sherry | August 30, 2010
Attending an outdoor concert was a first for our 16-year marriage. As Mothers/Fathers Day gifts, our local “kids” gave us tickets to see Garrison Keillor/Prairie Home Companion at the Portland Zoo on Saturday night. We joined the masses, hauling our chairs and blankets and picnics through the zoo to the open-air amphitheater, and got comfortable. [...]
Sherry | August 26, 2010
It isn’t every day I get to be such a near attendant to the birth of a grandchild. My role in Cassidy’s birth seven years ago today was to keep the older two occupied while the real work occurred in a room just down the hospital hall. It was unforgettable, even from my vantage. Shortly [...]
Sherry | August 21, 2010
This was one of those pictures I couldn’t not post. Here’s the context: …a cool jam session on the church lawn this evening. I wish you could hear them! Wait…you can!
Sherry | August 20, 2010
My coworker Denise spends most of her days these days completely focused on the task of inputting information into a website that will manage all the plots and history relating to our church’s cemetery. So focused, in fact, that she was unaware I took this picture. Yesterday she broke her concentration long enough to come [...]
Sherry | August 17, 2010
Call me crazy—I love doing laundry. Of course I do use the modern conveniences—a washer and dryer. Who of my generation would forget the wringer washing machines our moms used to wash the family’s dirty duds? Once wrung, they’re hung by clothespins out in the backyard (or in the basement) on the clothesline. Was there [...]
Sherry | August 15, 2010
This photo series made me smile. Maybe it will broaden yours today. And our favorite, because we’ve actually witnessed this happening (with a natural “jet stream”):
Sherry | August 12, 2010
When the Andersons drove here from Denver, Quinn noted it was on the same roads she drove in a U-Haul truck with her brother Ben nine years earlier. That was significant because they wouldn’t be returning to Colorado. After five days with us, they headed south toward their new home in Arizona, just in time [...]
Sherry | August 12, 2010
Last night we enjoyed an evening with the Sherwoods, the Murphys, and the Grellers. A 45-minute drive to Mt. Angel dropped us into an altogether different small-town culture from what we enjoy in Newberg. We went to attend a dinner/concert event that featured Hahnheim Mannersgesangverien from Germany. Six hundred or so fulka gathered in the Oktoberfest [...]
Sherry | August 10, 2010
Having the MacDonalds visit our home for an evening capped off a delightful week at the coast. They’re on a tent-camping vacation at Champoeg State Park (a favorite of theirs for many years) all the way from Phoenix. Since Craig is a daily blogger, I get to know what they’re up to most of the [...]
Sherry | August 8, 2010
Mauri uses our BikeE tandem for his around-town transportation, and we take it for local spins from time to time. We intended to ride it in the Portland BridgePedal—23 miles / seven bridges—this morning, but he discovered a big crack in the back wheel last night. So we pulled down the “Screamer” (the real name of [...]