The tortilla press I ordered arrived this afternoon (from Laredo, TX!) and I decided we should get right to it and have tacos tonight! Kevin smoked some tomatoes and peppers on the Traeger for what started out to be one hour but ended up to be almost three hours (that's…
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I found a recipe for a cocktail I'd never heard of (while looking for cocktail recipes containing Aperol) and decided to try it out on our friends last night when they came over for dinner. It's called an Amber Road and here are the ingredients (plus a mint sprig, maple…
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This morning we did our usual hike in the Arboretum (about 4 miles), but we figured we should really get a bike ride in too, since we're doing the 36 mile Bridge Pedal route next Sunday (one week from today) and we really haven't been riding that much lately. So…
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We've gotten back into our morning hike routine while at home and we love it. Our normal route is just under 4 miles in about an hour and it is gorgeous! We feel pretty lucky to live this close to so many miles of beautiful trails. We also replaced our…
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We headed out for a bike ride this morning (while it was still cool out…76 degrees at 10am). We started down at the Portland waterfront where the Waterfront Blues Festival was getting underway. (That's it over in the park, behind all the boats parked out front.) We rode up the…
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Yesterday we headed over to Cora's Crop Blueberry Farm (just down the road from Champoeg State Park), to pick some blueberries. And by "some" we meant business because we came home with 20lbs of the dang things. There were so many gorgeous ripe berries that it was hard to stop picking!…
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Well here we are camping in our own back yard again! Or…30 minutes from our backyard anyway (Champoeg State Park), and since we can't keep our Airstream at home (driveway too steep, nowhere to turn around) we'll have to settle for this. Sucks, doesn't it? Oh wait, it doesn't. We're…
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There's a new restaurant in Portland (Swank) next door to a new whiskey bar in Portland (Swine) and together they're Swank & Swine, at the Paramount Hotel downtown on Taylor between Park and Broadway. They opened a couple days ago and we've been looking forward to this place! The chef…
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I snapped this out of the car window on our way from Silver Falls State Park today. There were so many fields like this where the tree farm landscape looked like it was being flooded with yellow wildflowers…it felt like you could SEE them growing up and around the Christmas…
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Our short visit here at Silver Falls State Park has been so nice! We'll be working right here this morning until we check out and head home for a few days. We've got 4 bars of strong AT&T, and no Verizon, for those of you curious about that. The closest…
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