Thanksgiving

Lindsey and her parents were kind enough to invite us to spend thanksgiving with them and their excellent cooking, at her parent's place in Black Butte Ranch, East of the Cascades.


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It's extremely pretty out there, all conifers and snow and mule deer eating the community golf course:

There was also plenty of other wildlife to keep our noses pressed against the windows - I think this is a Hairy Woodpecker (or possibly a Downy Woodpecker, but it's probably too big):

We had a little tour around the town of Sisters - a cute little tourist-trap, with bylaws stating shops have to look "Old-Westy". No such requirement for the cars passing through, though.

Unfortunately, this picture is a little blurry, but you can get the general idea of the awesome hideousness of some of the articles in the second-hand bookshop there:

On the upside, one of the shops there had RJ's liquorice from Levin *nompf*

Belated Halloween

Yeah, I'm extremely slack and some of these pictures are blurry, but we still had a cool Halloween with Patrick & Elena, the ghouls of 30th & Jackson Sts. We didn't dress up, but we'll have to next year since there's actually going to be a party.

This year the decorations were so successful several small children came to the door in tears (but still wanting lollies).

Mort carved another pumpkin:

And I actually carved one too, this year:

In unrelated photos, here's a branch of the 24-hour Church of Elvis that Mort found in Portland: