October

Hello everyone,
It is October in Portland. This year is very weird, we had pretty nice weather in Portland so far. It is raining today, but very warm. Last night we went to a free show and it was pretty warm when we got home at 11pm.

We got a new vehicle - Mazda5 mini van. It is a small van and have plenty of space for us. We got really good milage - 30 miles per gallon so far. This van will be perfect when Ryan gets here.

I made pork belly (3 layer pork) with kimchi stirfry. It was really good, but I don't think I will make it anymore. It is not very healthy.
Lily or Zoey? I don't know...

We went to the beach as soon as we got the new car. It was a really nice morning and the cloud rolled in after lunch. I played around with this picture a bit on the computer. Do you like it?
Kid and doggie having fun
A close up picture of a seagull.
a flock of seagulls. I'm trying out the zoom lens. :)
Michelle
me
a fat little otter
Some kind of rowing event going on at the waterfront. There were a bunch of crew teams.
Michelle and Ryan. She is getting noticeable.

The Armory. The city converted the old Armory in to a theater. We haven't seen a show here yet.
We got woken up this morning by the Portland Marathon. They had a band playing right around the corner, good music. A bunch of people had cowbells and whistles to encourage the runners.
Maybe Amy can come run this marathon sometime.

Ok, that's it for now.
I started a new blog check it out and tell your friends.

www.retireby40.org

Bye for now
Nuk

September

Wow, summer is over already. The weather in Portland is overcast and sprinklely. We had a really short summer this year, but that's actually ok with us. We went down to Banning and Palm Spring for a week to visit Michelle's mom and dad and Michelle also attended the Toastmaster's international contest there. It was over 100 degree everyday for the whole week, we can't handle that anymore. We took a lot of pictures, but my computer hard drive crashed and we lost all the previous week of pictures. Good thing I had a back up so we didn't lose everything. Anyway, Michelle's dad has pictures on his computer, we can get them from him later.


Michelle hanging out downtown

Here is me. Usually this spot is full of young homeless beggars, but it was clear today so we took the opportunity to take some pictures.

Symphony and fireworks from our balcony. ahhh.... we love living downtown.
beautiful Lily cat. She has been kind of mean lately and is bullying Zoey and Hobi.

carrots at the PSU farmer market


unusual sun flowers, we've never seen these before.



My beautiful baby mama :)

We went to Art in the Pearl and like this one booth a lot. can't afford $7,200 though.


until next time

August '10

We used the zipcar for the first time yesterday. I reserved it for 3 hours and we went to home depot, pet store, grocery store, Asian grocery store, and dropped stuffs off at Goodwill. We got back just in time, it working out pretty well so far. We probably rent the zipcar once every 2-3 weeks.

More pictures!!!
Michelle at the Portland Art Museum courtyard


Joe at the Ira Keller fountain
Carafe, a French restaurant next to the Keller fountain.

Michelle with the Dreamer sculpture at the Pettygrove Park next to the condo.
That's me :)

Another gratuitous Hobi shot.

I made Thai red wine chicken from the old recipe book that we had since the Siamese restaurant day.

Portland Bridge pedal today. The fire boat is out and about.
Bridge pedal people. There is no way I can pedal up that high. I'll have to walk the bike if I ever do this.


Hawthorne bridge

I really like my new camera. I'm still learning and I'm getting a lot of bad pictures. I think I need nicer lenses. 8)
bye for now