Thursday, April 09, 2009
The above image is the ride we did on Saturday. Our little group of four made it to mile 30 before calling it quits. It was an amazing ride, the route was really well put together, it was suprisingly well marked (of course if you were headed downhill you could assume you'd turn and head up hill, and if you were going uphill you could assume you'd keep going up hill...) We headed back to NE portland and were making a stop at the 5th quadrant to get beer and burgers, it was a very slow ride up N. Williams, lots of looking down to check for flats, lots of trying to shift into a lower gear... We bonked hard riding up N. Williams - we bailed at the right time! Next year I may have to get on a bike sooner than the day of the ride!!
The garden is coming together and is a lot of work. Coming home from 8 hours at the office then transplanting tomatoes for another hour, watering, etc. This urban farmer thing is difficult. The good news is the peas are up, spinach, beets, other greens, radishes all sprouted and growing! Things are looking up on my plot o' land.
Back to the freelance work - ick.
posted by jered 7:12 PM
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Too busy. Lucky the wife is away or I'd never chip away at this pile of freelance! The only bad part is a couple of the jobs are pro-bono... I can't say no to non-profits In between work and more work I did manage to replant some things in the yard, the space is starting to get filled. I've got dirt coming my way to fill the beds on friday so all should be moving forward! I'll soon be able to get some greens in the ground!
posted by jered 10:27 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Currently playing on my itunes - mineral - slower. I remember the first or second big "detroit fest"... I think it was the second... seeing mineral play this song live was one of the best things I've ever seen. That is freaking emo. The guitarist bending the neck to get all that crazy distortion out... I completely forgot to take photos during that song even though I was against the stage! Still a damn fine song... not sure if it would be quite as good if I didn't have that live show in my head.
posted by jered 9:41 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Busy is an understatement. Work is crazy as always, yet good progress is being made so I can't complain. At home I have too much freelance and I've been lacking the ability to power through a day of work and sit down for another stretch at the home computer... That will need to change if I want to have free time, or pick the squeege back up and get my screen print on!
Friday was a photo opening at "The Artery". It was skate photos and there were some classics from Brittain and Knights, weird the rush of memories some of those shots brought back. I was suprised by how packed the place was, all the usual notable skaters. The show made me happy we have so many skateparks - if the show was a skatepark I would have kept driving to another park that was less crowded.
A few weeks back I got a text from my brother-in-law who has been living in Brasil for the past few years. He found a recipe for pacoca. During one of our visits I discovered a peanut candy called pacoca. It isn't complicated - ground up peanuts, sugar, salt all held together with the natural peanut oils. It is sweet, peanut-ty and crumbly. Armed with a recipe on my phone I gave it a shot. I'm 90% there, I need to better figure out the salt/sugar ratio and get some bigger chunks of peanut mixed in somehow. Currently it is closer to the texture of halva... but with peanuts. Close, so close. A couple more pounds of peanuts and I'll have it perfected - perfect pacoca! MMMMM!
In between rain showers we welded cross braces into our raised beds and added an angle iron lip to all the beds so they don't seem so sharp. We still need to hit the corners with a grinder to soften them a touch. We were laughing because it is so obvious we don't have kids - we built giant sharp steel objects that we put all over the back yard... "don't push your brother near the garden..."Lastly, 7:30pm and it is still light out!
posted by jered 7:12 PM
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Born Against just came up on the ipod. Every time I hear that band they sound better! That is one reunion show I would attend...
posted by jered 4:25 PM
Monday, March 09, 2009
We had two great days sliding around on snowboards. Meadows with 12" of new and blue skies. Heather Canyon was open and lift lines where short! The only bad part of the day came when I spied a PERFECT superpipe that was being used for a contest - lame! The next day was cold, windy and snowy and we spent it at Timberline, which was nice... though flat. We rode a couple runs in the morning with an old co-worker from our days instructing at T-line, which was very nice! We hit up the usual hidden steep spots and found ample short, but untracked lines! Another fun day of sliding around. Sunday was garden day and I spent some hard earned cash at Portland Nursery and rearranged the front yard. I moved the existing plants and added new plants in an attempt to randomize the yard.
Lastly, we are battling sugar ants. We have called for heavy artillery - the exterminator comes tomorrow!
posted by jered 9:41 PM
Monday, March 02, 2009
Much excitement this weekend.
watched:
dark knight
burn after reading
coraline (in 3-D)
Coraline was the winner - freaking awsome!
The mailman brought me these two notebooks. Many people are keeping them clean... but if a notebook is not full of notes then it is by nature incomplete, thus I shall fill them with useless notes!
We also had a TON of steel delivered this week and over the course of the weekend we welded up 9 raised beds... they are a bit LARGE... but their height means the dog won't get into them - which is a plus.
Jess welding.
Me taking a break...
The south side of the back yard post welding...
kinda looks like a grave yard right now...?
posted by jered 5:42 PM
