Saturday was a play day.. we decided to head out for a hike .. Diane, Gabe, Sean, and Gabe’s friend Mary headed out about an hour down the Columbia river gorge to climb Dog Mountain. Gabes friend Luna met us there.

Dog moutnain is a steep climb out of the beautiful gorge. We learned that it’s named after an unfortunate group of settlers who had to eat their dogs to survive being snowed in up there many years back.. a weird story to begin our hike..

It was. warmish (40’s) and rainy at the bottom.. but then changed to foggy.. and eventually FREEZING with gale force winds near the top.

we then zoomed back to Portland because Gabe got us psyched for corndogs.. We went to franks that had both veggie and non veggie versions.. So delicious !

Great day.; ended by sort-of watching Bladerunner while I played around with some AI stuff on Satori… Here’s a picture I made by combining a picture of me with a PeterMax poster

This has been such a great vacation ! Heading home on Sunday

nite all, Nite sam
-me

Diane, Sean and I spent the day working around the house .. one bigger project was patching a few holes in the basement floor.. I put a samstone in the patch just for fun

Around 5 folks started showing up for the Summer roll making party Gabe had set up for us to meet some his friends.. Diane had made some excellent sauces in all the prep..

Gabes friends are so awesome !

one of Gabe and Seans friends.. Emily is a freind of our housmate Kyle and Hunters !

late that night we figure out that Gabe’s friend Luna was good friends and past roommates with my cousin Even t Middlebury !
Luna and Gabe were on the River trip together the last couple of weeks . 

OK.. we’re taking off now..
More when we’re airborne

nite all, nite sam

-me

The second day of the year began early.. Max and I left home around 5:30 for his flight back to Santa Fe .. the airport in PDX is so slope, I was home and in bed again just after 6:15 !

Diane and I spent the day doing odd jobs around the house for Gabe. we put up shelves, helped organize the basement, fixed doorknobs, rehung doors, .. etc..







We went out for Thai that night because we were craving spice !
nite all, nite sam

-me

New Years day !..  l

Diane and I spent the morning cleaning and packing the remaining stuff in the cabin. Luckily 🙂 we’d sent most of the stuff back with the boys the day before

we got home around 1 PM which was about the time Max and Gabe were waking up :-)/. they’d had a great time the night before

We slowly made our way out to Tasty’s for a Portland Brunch.. this town is built on Brunches !

later in the day Max’s friend Casety and his GF Emily came by .. 

Then late night we headed out for sushi dinner..   A great culinary beginning to the year !

we all headed to bed early as Max had an early flight the next day

ets make it a fun and interesting year !

nite all, nite sam !

-me