Exploring Portland

This is a sandwich from the Screen Door. Fried onions, pepper jack cheese, Louisiana andoulie sausage, a fried egg, and chipotle aiolie sauce. Good grief! Miss B and I split the leftovers the next night for dinner. Not to mention the side of grits and the mimosa to chase it all down. YUM! Can't wait to go here again.

Found this album at the Palace of Industry just down the street from our house. This place should be called the Palace of Randomness. I could not believe how just simply weird it was but liked it. You can sit and have a cocktail or beer while shopping through vintage stuff. I think Miss B should learn some of these songs to up her career choices. Not so?

We went for brunch at a place called Genie's yesterday. The food was good but cocktails fantastic! I had a mimosa and chased it with a ginger lemonade. Miss B had a Bloody Mary (spicy spicy!) followed up by "The Best Summer You Have Ever Had" which was a mojito like type of drink but better as it had cucumber vodka. Her food wasn't so great. I had the biscuits and gravy with scrambled eggs and bacon chaser. Very good!

What we are struggling with is finding the right yoga studio. Yesterday we went to who is supposed to be the premier anusara teacher in Portland at Yoga Union and truth be told, not so great. It was an all levels class however should have been listed as a 2-3 and gave no alternative options during class for those not as advanced. It was just way too much in terms of sunshine and rainbows blowing out of our asses for the entire class. I miss my San Francisco teachers who had their moments of sunshine but struck a great balance between discussing the good, bad, and ugly. Makes me miss Katchie and Dana for sure!

Other activities of the weekend involved sanding the deck, seeing Moneyball, (great movie!), watching baseball (Giants are out of the post season but am hopeful for next year), staining a wine rack with two to go, going for a run, and just hanging out. Need to get the deck stained if it stops raining. Or should I say when. Really need to get that done before the serious rainy doldrums kick in for the full on winter! It's coming too. Full rain this morning when we went for a run at 0500. It was dark and dreary AND we still went out for 3 miles. Not bad eh?!?! Next few weekends will be occupied with visitors so who knows what we will be up to next!