our home grown group, {reclaiming roots} has won a radish award from the eastern iowa based radish magazine.
Reclaiming Roots is a new eastern-Iowa based organization dedicated to beautifying neighborhoods and bringing communities together. Three friends were inspired to create the group after a living room conversation about things they wanted done in their own [...]
Archive for December, 2007
taylor the dog
25Dec07a few of you have been asking how taylor is doing. thankfully my parents are still tolerating her.
looks to me like she’s a happy dog. you be the judge.
merry christmas from portland
24Dec07portland was beautiful today, with sunshine and showers it was very refreshing. deeann and i will be celebrating later in the day tomorrow, since she is working the night shift tonight. we’ll be having a delicious christmas dinner and hanging out with sasha, our neighbors dog that we are watching while they are [...]
the rape of europa
19Dec07monday night deeann and i went with our neighbors to a documentary called the rape of europa. the film takes you through the violence and greed the nazis brought to europe for 12 years while focusing on the looting of classical and fine art.
when you think about world war two images of violence and [...]
biking portland
17Dec07the business of biking.
video and story by the new york times.
visitors
14Dec07last week we had our first visitors(not including terra and pete, who helped move us out here). deeanns parents came out for about 6 days to see our new home.
we showed them around town, ate at a few local places including bleu, the restaurant ran by my school, went to the coast, visited multnomah [...]
for the love of beer
12Dec07the week after we went to the coast (maybe 2 weeks ago or so), portland had its holiday ale festival.
deeann and i went to the opening night on thursday and needless to say it was completely packed. not only was it the opening night but we happen to go at about 445 when everyone [...]
