Tomorrow morning  Diane and I leave protland.. who knows when we’ll be back. > in a few weeks gabe drives east to Vermont and then heads to Germany. he’s keeping the house rented.. with our good friends shawn and mel.. . 

we did a few chores aroudn the house. Gabe emptied his rock tumbler 

We shipped some packages.. and packed out stuff. after gabes mandolin lesson we took one more visit tot eh moon and six opence and got to say good bye to Gabes freinds Jeff the guitar maker.. and Rene his mandolin teacher.. theyve been great freinds to gabe 

Afterwards we wen t back to the house .. to say goodbye for a while 

Portland has been a great place to visit for us.. we’ll misss it.. but we’re even more excited for what comes next for gabe

nite all, nite sam
_me

Today we head back to portland.. we spent an hour or so taking down the decorations and packign them, cleanign the hose and packing.  It has been a great stay !

We took the tree outside and decorated it with one bagel.. kind of like  we’ve always done at home.. 

time for pcis  !

once we were out of the house we headed to Castle Canyon trail  for a short hike 

We stopped at chapes again .. for papussas on the way home
a great coda to this trip @

nite all, nite sam
-me

Diane made fresh orange juice to start the day.. 

We all bundled up and got in gabes car to head up to Timberline lodge.. by the time we went a couple of mikes, the rain turned to snow.. and there were cars spinning out all over the place.. we had no problem.   We headed to timberline to see it for ourselves.. its a bit of a pilgrimage.. its where both Sam and Gabe came for snowboard camp in the summer.. 

We got up there,. baught a red bull and went out and poured one out for Sam

Max had smuggeld in a throwign axe in order to recreate the scence in teh Shining where jack nicholson is comign for his family.. Timberlien kdoge is the exterior thay used in that movie. 

we headed inside.. it was an amazing art deco meets log cabin from the 1930s.. so cool !

we were not surprised to learn that nearly everyone else whants to to do the “Here’s Johnny’ scenefrom the Shining. The nice peopel at the desk even will lend you there axe ! 

what a setting.. Nova couldnt come in.. so gabe and mya took turns playing with her outside 

then back to rhododendron to eat thai at a very cool local resturaunt  

then home for game playign adnd candy

it was a game like teplephoe though you had to alternate drawign and guessing as the the secret went aroudn the playes..

here’s ugly duckling and gravy train 

I stayed up late working on my playa lights.. 

Another great day.. 

note all. nite sam
-me

I went to bed super late last night .. maybe 2 am. Here’s the view down tot he living room. I love seeing our kids having fun together. 

today we started a new puzzle. it’s a map of europe… with Gabe moving to germany we hope to be over there more.. so need to bone up !

THsi mornign we headed out in the persistant drizzle in search of old growth trees.. we headed to Mt Hood state park.. the road had been destroyed only 2 weeks ago by heavy rain.. pretty intense !

check out the size of these trees !

Big news today  is that the puzzle is finished.. or almost finished.. we saved the very last eiece for Mya to put in when she shows up later today.

Mya showed up mid day (shes an emeergency room nurse.. she works nights mostly).. in honor of her showing up.. we went out for antoerh hike just up the street 

then back to the house for a group cooked dinner.. centerpiece is general tsao’s dinner

Super great day !

nite all , nite sam 
-me