Spring Cleaning Goes to New Heights

It's strange to look out your window and see a person there, especially when you are on the side of a mountain and he's almost four stories up in the air. You have to be pretty brave to clean windows in our neighborhood.

If you are looking to freshen up your house, getting your windows cleaned is a great idea. You'll be amazed at how much more light comes in and what a difference it makes. If you are in Portland, call David Valoff at Professional Window Cleaning, (503) 236-8329, and he will set you up.

Spring Cleaning continues

Seems like as soon as you get one thing looking good, the other things around it start to look tired. So it was with the deck. I cleaned it and stained it and then the chairs started to show their wear. Barbara sanded them down to get all the splinters and mold off, then we wiped on the teak oil. They clean up pretty good.

Bob Schneider at the Doug Fir

Last night we stayed up past our bed time to see Bob Schneider at the Doug Fir. It was a great show as he rocked out with a full band, playing a few of the old favorites, like Deep Blue Sea and some new songs we had not heard before. I prefer to see Bob play solo, he is a lot less talkative when he has the band, but there were a few good stories last night. He stroked all our egos by saying Portland and Austin are fighting it out for coolest city in the US, and that Portland is ahead on points. Then he turned around and told us to "shut the f up" during a slow song. You gotta love Bob.

Car Progress

I went to visit my car today. This is something I do every few weeks, just to remind myself that I still own a car. We are making some progress. Most of the dents have been smoothed out and the new grill has been fitted. Still need to get the bumpers fitted and then finally get it repainted. I am hoping to have it back in time for some summer driving.

Empty Bus

As frequent readers will remember, I ride the bus to work, and every so often there is a post called "Today on the Bus." Usually this is where I write about some of the more colorful Portlanders I have met over the years, or more accurately I try not to meet. Today something happened that is very rare, I was the only person on the bus. This has happened before for a stop or two, but today I was the only person on the bus for almost half the ride and when I got off the bus driver was all alone. I felt a little sad for him.

Spring Cleaning

An unfortunate result of all the rain and trees in our neighborhood is green slime and mold on our decks. Every year or two you have to get out there and freshen it up, so I spent the long weekend pressure washing and staining the wood to make it look a little better. The easy part is the floor of the deck, the mold comes off pretty easily and it's also easy to roll the stain on. The challenge is all the vertical parts. It's time consuming and back pain inducing to reach all the nooks and crannies. It is also a challenge trying to paint anything outdoors in Oregon, you never know when it will start raining. Luckily, the deck had most of the day to dry before the down pour started on Saturday night.

Mariners Game

The Nike Golf team took a trip to Seattle for the day to see the Seattle Mariners beat the Texas Rangers 5-3. It was a fun game, and we had great seats. We were able to walk up and get seats behind home plate half an hour before the game started, poor Mariners. SafeCo is a great stadium, with lots of great food options. I can highly recommend the cheesesteak sandwich by section 127. Also, I can highly recommend Bolt Bus as a easy way to get up to Seattle. They have a bus that leaves Portland at 8:30 AM and returns at 6:00 PM, for $26 round trip.