snow day!

This is not what biking in the snow in Portland is like: (image taken from http://www.icebike.org/, where the cyclists are actually hardcore:) Regardless, we did get a little taste of snow biking this morning, when the snowpocalypse predicted for Portland dumped, if not quite seven inches, at least a few …

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truly badass

As I was getting ready to take off on the Hagg Lake mud run yesterday, I noticed a fellow bike up, strip off his biking shorts, and join the starting line. Intrigued, I pointed him out to a friend I was with, who realized that he’d passed the same guy …

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car free eggs!!

This is maybe the best thing ever. A few weeks ago, James came home from work super late with a half dozen differently-colored eggs: two amazing people with a whole host of chickens and some land in the woods had set up on the Hawthorne bridge and were giving out …

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