Strawberry Season is Here!

Katie, Carmen, and I headed out to the strawberry patches in atypical Oregon heat and just about died picking the first strawberries of the season. Our camera is still broken so the camera phone pictures will have to do. It is the 9th day without rain and 80s (and no air conditioning) and no one is conditioned for it. Minnie is not a happy camper.

I made 2 graham cracker crust strawberry pies.

One of many strawberry pints.


Next week we head to the Oregon Coast for my birthday!

Allison Visits Portland

They do get together!

What they do when we're not looking...they actually get along!

My Thank You Gift

I'm hoping to upload some great pictures of the weekend with Allison soon as soon as she uploads them (our camera died a very abrupt death), this is the beautiful thank you orchid that Allison sent me to my office. My first flowers I've ever gotten at work! And it made a horrible afternoon so much better.

Shy Girl

Brunch in San Diego

Work's been a little rough so we (katie and I) decided to treat ourselves to a local breakfast place in San Diego as well as drink our breakfast. This is what arrived when I ordered crab cakes. My god...I did my best.

What Eric Does All Day

So many of us have been wondering what Eric does. So, Eric thought that he'd enlighten us. (eric really should have done this post b/c I have no idea what these things are called but he has no idea how to work the blog).

Boat propeller thing. That's a man down there in the green cage for scale purposes.

Dry docked.
Eric crawls around on these all day and hangs off the edge. I don't think about it.


Norfolk, VA boat. classified.

San Diego

So I took a trip to San Diego for some focus groups. Unfortunately, I didn't see much of san Diego. We took a side trip during a break to a rooftop bar in order to get through the rest of the groups........


Ivy Hotel roof




My drink, vodka collins, the official drink of summer. It was so nice to be warm and not rainy.