Cape Meares and Tillamook with Parents and Katie (link) -- cheese factory, pics in and around beach house, sunset, clamming and crabbing, llamas, lighthouse, emma seafood...beaches...ya
Road trip to see Megan and Dan then Claire and Brian (link) -- megan's puppy lily, megan's house, megan's new parrotlets, claire and my handywork (pies and lighting install), Brian and Claire's house, the gorge and mountains.
Monday, September 10, 2007
oops bad blogger!
again i must say sorry for not updating lately. and again i have to say i've just been so busy...
lets see if i can remember.....
first thing that comes to mind is i finally said goodbye to EdenVale winery and hello to a brighter future. My last week was like any other week, days and days of endless mind numbing bottling. 04 syrah... not bad but...whatever. Had a nice lunch out with pat and brady friday afternoon. and surprising i didn't see anne all week, including my last day so i didn't get to say goodbye.
Friday night i cam home, drank a big glass of wine and i was going to start packing up my life to move (still no place found at this point)....but that wine made me sleepy so i decided to take a nap...accidentally sleeping till 9:30ish!!! well i was up till about 1am picking though all my stuff decided what i needed, what i wanted and what i should leave behind. it was a lot harder than i thought. but i managed not to fill my car 100% full.
I got up early the next day and starting a week and a half long preharvest solo road trip. First stop was to meet up with my parents and sister for her birthday at the coast, Cape Meares near tillamook. actually met up with them in tillamook and went to the cheesefactory, but it was the weekend and they don't make cheese on the weekends. we stayed at my sister's boyfriend's aunts beach house with his parents too. had a great dinner, watched the sunset and later at low tide (~10pm) we went clamming well we only got about a hand full of calms but we did fill a bag up with red crabs. it was fun. next day morgan and his parents left us alone and we spend the day out and about. saw some llamas, the cape meares lighthouse, clam burger for lunch, playing at the beach with emma, and a grand feast of seafood for dinner. took our time getting up the next morning, had lunch with the fam and heading our separate ways, they went home and i want up north to find a home. made a couple phone calls, first one seemed perfect(great room and roommates) but it fell though, ended up setting on a place close to work with a couple of girls, and a couple cats (perhaps a mistake, we'll see). that night headed up to portland and spent the night at my friend Raechel's place. split a bottle with her and her boyfriend and caught up a little. Had a lazy morning chatting over coffee before i headed up to Megan's new place near seattle. actually went with her to check out a breeding pair of parrotlets (mini parrots), she hopes to get a baby to hand raise.
Next stop was Spokane to Brian and Claire's new house. I-90 all the way, a little boring in the middle but a nice, diverse terrain drive. went out for a couple of beers and back home to catch up with my buddys... i miss those guys. the next day brain was really busy with school so it was a thomas and claire day. we got some coffees and breakfast bagels, caught up with brian at lunch time and got to check out gonzaga, headed over to home depot picked up a light and later installed it, made a couple of pies (mine was extra fancy with a checkered top), claire and brian went for a run later but we all had dinner then back for beers and movies. next day said my goodbyes and headed back to see megan again before heading back to my new home.
well now i'm sitting in my new room, after a long day at my new job, mostly paperwork, safety videos, tours and training. met everyone, most of the names i can't remember, but everyone has a good attitude and looks like this is going to be fun!!!
so now i'm thinking i need to get out and check out the town, heard that a couple people from work were going to meet up at the pub just near work, maybe i'll do that... i'm starved!
ps pics to come soon.
lets see if i can remember.....
first thing that comes to mind is i finally said goodbye to EdenVale winery and hello to a brighter future. My last week was like any other week, days and days of endless mind numbing bottling. 04 syrah... not bad but...whatever. Had a nice lunch out with pat and brady friday afternoon. and surprising i didn't see anne all week, including my last day so i didn't get to say goodbye.
Friday night i cam home, drank a big glass of wine and i was going to start packing up my life to move (still no place found at this point)....but that wine made me sleepy so i decided to take a nap...accidentally sleeping till 9:30ish!!! well i was up till about 1am picking though all my stuff decided what i needed, what i wanted and what i should leave behind. it was a lot harder than i thought. but i managed not to fill my car 100% full.
I got up early the next day and starting a week and a half long preharvest solo road trip. First stop was to meet up with my parents and sister for her birthday at the coast, Cape Meares near tillamook. actually met up with them in tillamook and went to the cheesefactory, but it was the weekend and they don't make cheese on the weekends. we stayed at my sister's boyfriend's aunts beach house with his parents too. had a great dinner, watched the sunset and later at low tide (~10pm) we went clamming well we only got about a hand full of calms but we did fill a bag up with red crabs. it was fun. next day morgan and his parents left us alone and we spend the day out and about. saw some llamas, the cape meares lighthouse, clam burger for lunch, playing at the beach with emma, and a grand feast of seafood for dinner. took our time getting up the next morning, had lunch with the fam and heading our separate ways, they went home and i want up north to find a home. made a couple phone calls, first one seemed perfect(great room and roommates) but it fell though, ended up setting on a place close to work with a couple of girls, and a couple cats (perhaps a mistake, we'll see). that night headed up to portland and spent the night at my friend Raechel's place. split a bottle with her and her boyfriend and caught up a little. Had a lazy morning chatting over coffee before i headed up to Megan's new place near seattle. actually went with her to check out a breeding pair of parrotlets (mini parrots), she hopes to get a baby to hand raise.
Next stop was Spokane to Brian and Claire's new house. I-90 all the way, a little boring in the middle but a nice, diverse terrain drive. went out for a couple of beers and back home to catch up with my buddys... i miss those guys. the next day brain was really busy with school so it was a thomas and claire day. we got some coffees and breakfast bagels, caught up with brian at lunch time and got to check out gonzaga, headed over to home depot picked up a light and later installed it, made a couple of pies (mine was extra fancy with a checkered top), claire and brian went for a run later but we all had dinner then back for beers and movies. next day said my goodbyes and headed back to see megan again before heading back to my new home.
well now i'm sitting in my new room, after a long day at my new job, mostly paperwork, safety videos, tours and training. met everyone, most of the names i can't remember, but everyone has a good attitude and looks like this is going to be fun!!!
so now i'm thinking i need to get out and check out the town, heard that a couple people from work were going to meet up at the pub just near work, maybe i'll do that... i'm starved!
ps pics to come soon.
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