Tuesday night – Around Portland

We had a great day hanging out with Gabe… ‘Diane did a little guided work out for the three of us this morning… Then gabe went off to work. ‘Diane and I helped out by doing a dump run of stuff that was in Gabe’s basement. Visiting this huge city drop off center makes me never want to buy anything again .

GabÉ came home a little early from work and we worked outside… What are the main things we got done was putting up some of his huge roses

For dinner we decided to pick up takeout at the food trucks and hike up Mount Tabor

Our visit to Mount Tabor also included seen the statue of York… The first African American man to cross the US. He was a slave who worked with the party of Louis and Clark… He sounded like an amazing man. The statue itself was put there by an unknown artist after a previous statue was toppled. I guess there’s still quite a lot of mystery about it… It was pretty moving to see

You Jan read about it here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust_of_York

We watched the sunset over Portland… And ate our food which was fun

We hiked back down and drove back to Gabes house… Where I started showing game all of our digitized pictures and movies. We got hooked on trying to label more of the faces in Google photos…… And we also started watching some of the old movies including Diane my wedding video.

So much fun to look at that old stuff

OK… Time for bed

More tomorrow from this wonderful city

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Monday night – westward

Woke up very early today and took another nice run around Nicolette Island

Mom woke up with chicken short walk and I came back and packed up. Said Goodbye to my 62-year-old stuffed bear “Beary”. And then drove us over to Karyn and Jeff’s.… I did reduced mom the current Jeff about two years ago I knew they’d hit it off… Of course Covid got in the way. But now everyone’s reconnected. We made pizzas on the grill that were so delicious

Very nice hanging out and talking to those guys. There’s some of my most trusted advisors when it comes to major life decisions

Two flights later and I am in Portland. Diane and GabÉ pick me up at the airport brought us back to Gabes and we had pokey bowls and hung out with Sean and Fabian. Now we’re at our Airbnb about half a mile away they were probably pretty sleepy… So I have the salt in here. It’s so nice to be out here and see GabÉ

Note all, nite sam

-me

Sunday night – Happy Mother’s Day everyone

Very happy to be in Minneapolis celebrating Mother’s Day with my mother… And my sister who is a mother .. I’m glad that Dianne is with Gabe getting tHaving a great Mother’s Day out there…

We celebrated the day bye going to a touch football game (jake) ,a lacrosse game (Theo) an adaptive baseball game (Ellery was the announcer) , and a hockey game)Theo) …mary and John have pretty active kids



Just by coincidence Theo was wearing number 10… Which was Sam’s number and then Gabe’s number in LaCrosse !

We spent the rest of the day around Mary and John’s making stuff in the basement

I got to check in with Diane and GabÉ are in Portland… They were spending the day gardening which was sounded really nice

The we had a great sushi dinner for Mother’s Day…

Then a little post dinner Mischief

Happy mother day out there to all you mothers… Here’s my favorite Mother’s Day song for all you mothers out there

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Sunday night – Happy Mother’s Day everyone

Very happy to be in Minneapolis celebrating Mother’s Day with my mother… And my sister who is a mother .. I’m glad that Dianne is with Gabe getting tHaving a great Mother’s Day out there…

We celebrated the day bye going to a touch football game (jake) ,a lacrosse game (Theo) an adaptive baseball game (Ellery was the announcer) , and a hockey game)Theo) …mary and John have pretty active kids



Just by coincidence Theo was wearing number 10… Which was Sam’s number and then Gabe’s number in LaCrosse !

We spent the rest of the day around Mary and John’s making stuff in the basement

I got to check in with Diane and GabÉ are in Portland… They were spending the day gardening which was sounded really nice

The we had a great sushi dinner for Mother’s Day…

Then a little post dinner Mischief

Happy mother day out there to all you mothers… Here’s my favorite Mother’s Day song for all you mothers out there

Nite all, nite sam

-me