24 January 2010 0 Comments

My First Stop at Bob’s Red Mill

After book group at Sue’s place we all met at Bob’s Red Mill in Milwaukie. Across the street is Dave’s Killer Bread. Linda and I stopped there where I bought bread that were “seconds”. One was free!

6 January 2010 0 Comments

Time Running Out for Velveteria

Monday’s Oregonian newspaper headlines Velvet Blues  It’s curtains for the Velveteria museum of paintings, one of the places that kept Portland weird in their How We Live section because the Velveteria museum is CLOSING this month. Read the article here. Last year, Julie Skinner and I went through the Velveteria Museum of painting and loved [...]

20 November 2009 0 Comments

St. Johns Visit

After eating at The Little Red Bike Cafe, some of us went on to poke around St. Johns a mile or so down the road. We went into the book store, a specialized grocery store with organic foods and teas and the usual foods. The antique store wasn’t open, nor was a store called Crow, [...]