Welcome to my weekly update for September 13, 2020! I don’t have any hiking pictures to share this week. We stayed in and away from potential crowds the whole Labor Day weekend. A freak windstorm blew through Oregon on Tuesday, keeping us in again. My husband worked the rest of the week. Huge wildfires ignited Continue Reading…
I’m obviously not the only bibliophile who reads a book and thinks, “Wow! I wish I’d read this when I was younger.” I know that I would have appreciated some books even more as a younger reader. I know that other books that speak to me now would have spoken even louder back then and maybe clarified some decisions and smoothed […]
Welcome to my weekly update for September 6, 2020! It’s a holiday weekend here in the States and my husband is actually off work. We’re choosing to stay home and away from the crowds though. We enjoy getting out when he’s off mid-week and trails and other attractions are less likely to be crowded. On Wednesday, we hiked Mt. […]
Hosted by Books Are My Favorite and Best on the first Saturday of every month, this meme asks us to start with one title (Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld this month) and create a chain of bookish connections to see where it takes us. I’ve seen this around for a bit now and thought it looked Continue Reading…
Well, this is a fun idea! Top Ten Books That Make Me Hungry! I’m not a foodie by any means. I used to be a ridiculously picky eater, in fact. But my husband is a bit of a foodie and as I get older, I’m trying to incorporate more new things into my diet. I Continue Reading…
Welcome to my weekly update for August 30, 2020! For our mid-week hike, my husband and I drove up to Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood for a short-ish leg stretcher. He was willing to go further but I just wasn’t feeling it that day. Being East Coasters, we were surprised to see so many people at the lodge skiing and snowboarding in […]
No, I didn’t link to the wrong post. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is actually “Questions I Would Ask My Favorite Authors” but that wasn’t doing much for me. Since I just joined this meme last week, I missed out on the “Books I Read but Never Reviewed” topic. That spoke to me a Continue Reading…
Welcome to my weekly update for August 23, 2020! My husband and I like to explore on weekdays when he’s off and most people are at work, making trails less crowded. So on Tuesday, we drove up to Mount St. Helens for the day for some hiking. It wasn’t as classically beautiful as Mt. Rainier Continue Reading…
I think this might be my very first Top Ten Tuesday! I blogged for seven years from 2009 – 2016 and just started blogging again at the end of June. I was certainly aware of these weekly lists, so I don’t know why I’ve never joined in before! Anyway, on to my list of books Continue Reading…
Welcome to my weekly update for August 16, 2020! Two of the biggest natural tourist attractions in Oregon are the Columbia River Gorge Scenic Highway and Multnomah Falls. State officials closed them before we arrived here in April because of COVID-19. They finally re-opened on Thursday! We set out to explore on Friday. The air Continue Reading…
Welcome to my weekly update for August 9, 2020! After all our hiking last week, we took it relatively easy this week. My husband and I are usually in one place for three months before moving to a new place with his job. His three months in Portland, Oregon were complete on July 25 but Continue Reading…