Take me out to a ball game!

My friend, Kate, and her husband, Scott, were visiting Portland from Denver, Colorado.  We had a lot of fun with them, eating out, meeting up at the Marina Fish House for lunch, and here, at a Beaver's ballgame.  The Beavers played Tacoma and lost 13-5, but we still had a fun time stuffing ourselves with hot dogs and other foods commonly consumed at ball games!  It was really great to meet Scott and to see Kate, who was my very best friend for many years and who I hadn't seen in 18 year!!  I was delighted to see that she has gotten older, wiser, and more fully herself, but in her essence, she is the same loving, lovable Katie I always knew!  It was so great to see her!

John loves to go to baseball games!

Day at Grand Central

The bakery, not the station! We frequent Grand Central at least three times a week, and this time we brought Mila with us. I love Mila to bits!!! Okay, there are pictures of us too. But Mila!!....

July 4th with Kate and Scott

My good friend, Kate, visited from Colorado with her husband, Scott.  I haven't seen Kate for about 18 years!  Since I lived in Manhattan.  She and I were best friends when I lived in Englewood and then Littleton, Colorado, and we stayed in touch ever since, though lately by email.  It was great fun to see her again.  The picture above was taken by a very nice sheriff patrol man who was lashing his patrol boat to the dock.

The picture below was a display of the flag we thought quite impressive. Though I'm not feeling very patriotic these days, I thought it worth a shot!

Ahhhh!!!

OH MY GOD!  What am I seeing that makes me so, so, well you see for yourself.....

It was the day I decided to move my office back into the room where it used to be!!! Horrible mess...

But now it's all clean and I have a wonderful view again of my bird feeders in the backyard.  My hummingbird, for those of you who know about my little friend, is still around and more grown up.  She now has more of the silvery red markings typical of Anna's hummingbirds.  For more on the hummingbird story, you can check it out here...  And for an update here...  And for another update here...

John and I recently went to a reunion of his in Indianapolis.  He was a big-time swimmer there and swimmers from all over the country converged to celebrate swimming in Indianapolis.  John is on the far right, then going left it's Joan Diercks, our dear friend and his friend from Kindergarten, can you believe?  Then it's Ava who worked at the Riviera Club, John's swimming club, for many years, then on the far left is John Diercks, our other dear friend from Indy and John's friend since they were around 14, I believe.  The only reason we ever consider moving to Indianapolis is because of John and Joan!!  We have a blast with them and love them both dearly.  They are more like family than anything else...

Old Obama pix

Today I'm catching up on my blog. This was from Obama's first trip to Portland, back before hardly anyone knew his name. It was taken September 7, 2007, and John had read his book Audacity of Hope and wanted to see him be president. He predicted back then that Obama would be our candidate. Good prognostication skills, John! 

There were maybe 3000 people there. Maybe a good number for a relative unknown, but nothing like the 100K that attended his most recent rally here in Portland!  But at least we were close enough to see him!