Frist weekend of spring 2009

This weekend is the first weekend of spring. Some plum and cherry trees are already blossoming, they are beautiful. Some pictures from March.

One morning, we had a clear day and suddenly the fog started rolling in. It was pretty cool.


Hobi is determined to get some cracker.

Today we went to find some plum blossoms. The little park near our condo, next to American Plaza, has about 10 plum trees, but they just started flowering. This one is on 23rd, we went up there to try Laurelwood pub. This is a Toastmaster meeting spot so Michelle wants to check it out. That's Joe. The star of this show. 8)
I got a Workhorse IPA, 80 IBU. Wow, it was strong and really good.

March update

Hi Everyone,
I've been really busy at work the last few weeks. There is a critical issue that we need to solve, but I think it's done now. Wow, I worked 70 hours a week for 2 weeks, that's way too much work. I'm planning to take a couple of days off next week to recuperate.

That's me. We walked down to the river to see the Strand condo. They had two listings that looks like a nice deal. One is a townhouse right next to the river, 2 bedrooms, 1830 sq feet for $470,000. That sounds like a lot, but the original price was $650,000. I really love this area too, it's centrally located, street car, next to river and marina, very nice.

Michelle's nemesis - These Canadian geese walked all over the roads when Michelle used to work at TEK. She hated waiting for them to cross.

We went to see the Portland Trailblazers VS San Antonio Spurs. We won by 14 points, that was fun. We sat in the last row, but still had great view from mid court.

Our star player - Brandon Roy drove to the basket and scored. They got a new Ford sponsored blimp since we last went. I think it was probably 3 years ago.


Things are good in general, the weather is getting a bit warmer.
Oh yeah, we finally finished our refinance. We got 4.75%, that's awesome.
signing off,
-Joe