tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37076232011-07-31T04:31:47.537-07:00Whine CountryPeriodic Postcards from <strike>Napa, California</strike> Portland, Oregon.Petenoreply@blogger.comBlogger337125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-26692665301656626642008-12-25T16:28:00.000-08:002010-01-13T08:49:53.170-08:002010-01-13T08:49:53.170-08:00This Blog is on HoldPetenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-11525843453226075552008-12-24T20:41:00.001-08:002008-12-24T20:42:26.213-08:002008-12-24T20:42:26.213-08:00Two Hands on FacebookI've been having fun getting a Facebook page going for Two Hands Wines. Now we just need to get the word out that it's a great source for interesting and entertaining content. Post a link!Petenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-54033959695196008092008-12-23T21:05:00.001-08:002008-12-23T21:14:55.818-08:002008-12-23T21:14:55.818-08:00The YankeesMy feelings about all the cash the Yanks are throwing around? "Whatever." I hardly pay attention to baseball anymore. Honestly, it fairly bores me. I haven't sat down and watched a whole game in ... I don't know how many years. Is it the money that has turned me off? I guess that's a factor, in the sense that it confirms that baseball has mostly become just another entertainment. And I don't sit Petenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-20490629857214486472008-12-21T23:19:00.000-08:002008-12-21T23:20:57.565-08:002008-12-21T23:20:57.565-08:00Did You Hear About that New Triathlon Blog?Off to a roarin' start.Petenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-91930783641272984312008-12-21T20:04:00.000-08:002008-12-21T22:53:57.823-08:002008-12-21T22:53:57.823-08:00PDX Snow DataCourtesy the KPTV Weather Blog, posted there by Steve Pierce, who got the info from Clinton Rockey at the NWS:1" on the 14th1" on the 18th1/2" on the 19th7" on the 20th2" today (as of 6pm) PDX December 2008 snowfall total as of 6pm Sunday Dec 21st = 11.5" Historical notes --- * The largest December snowfall total since December 1968. * The 4th largest seasonal snowfall total in 30 years, falling Petenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-39874991904265351192008-12-18T08:57:00.000-08:002008-12-18T08:59:48.815-08:002008-12-18T08:59:48.815-08:00Thursday Morning's Mini-AdventureAll the frozen stuff pretty much melted overnight and it was 34 and school was on for the day. So Niko and I head out, notice a few flurries in the air, get in the car, start driving, and the precip gets heavier and heavier. By the time we're to school (6 miles and 15 minutes away), it's damn near white-out conditions. By the time I got back home, there was a fresh inch on the ground. Freeways Petenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-61879771693455003992008-12-13T10:34:00.000-08:002008-12-13T11:31:04.381-08:002008-12-13T11:31:04.381-08:00Triathlon: Keeping the Economy AfloatInteresting story out of San Diego about the surge in triathlon participation and spending on the sport. No doubt the last couple of years have seen amazing growth, but will it hold through 2009? I've got to figure there will be some flattening of the spending curve. Just this week I set out to sign up for Wildflower Long Course. This is a great race on a great course and the timing is perfect Petenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-21042633381141898572008-11-23T22:30:00.000-08:002008-11-23T22:32:00.748-08:002008-11-23T22:32:00.748-08:00May He Long DribbleFive years. Man, was there even an Internet five years ago?Petenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-88753562697269125032008-11-16T16:22:00.000-08:002008-11-16T16:23:23.287-08:002008-11-16T16:23:23.287-08:00In the KitchenThere was grass-fed beef, pastured chicken, pasture-raised pork and free-ranging goat from Deck Family Farm at the Hollywood Farmer's Market on Saturday. I went for the goat. Never had goat. When I got home I put the frozen package in the fridge. Today I made stew.I started by cooking a whole mess of garlic in some olive oil.Took the garlic out and browned up the meat, which I'd tossed around in Petenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-63151836676404471892008-11-16T11:30:00.001-08:002008-11-16T13:59:20.909-08:002008-11-16T13:59:20.909-08:00Race Report: XCWe went all twisty-turny and up-and-down on wide paths through the woods next to Sandy High School yesterday morning. The sun shone and a breeze came from the east, warming as it came off looming Mount Hood and down through the canyon to the southeast edge of the metro area, where we raced.Question: Is it a race if nobody passes you and you pass nobody? I was way back from the start as a hundred Petenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-24805339495639606442008-10-24T15:27:00.000-07:002008-10-24T16:54:34.169-07:002008-10-24T16:54:34.169-07:00Live Wine Blogging!At the Wineblogger Conference in Santa Rosa.1: 2006 Small Vines Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast: These guys are all about high-density planting and low-input in the winery. "Do as little to the wines as possible." No fining or filtering. Bright, alive, acidity. Shy fruit on the nose right now. Hiding?2: 2007 Cupcake Vineyards Chardonnay Central Coast: They want to make a wine that Petenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-48113310097766337742008-10-21T23:07:00.000-07:002008-10-21T23:08:12.294-07:002008-10-21T23:08:12.294-07:00OuchPetenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-59997523599425233532008-10-21T22:30:00.001-07:002008-10-21T22:31:17.611-07:002008-10-21T22:31:17.611-07:00Well SaidIron Wil on eloquence, eloquently.Petenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-77071763139188333712008-10-19T19:33:00.000-07:002009-08-27T22:04:22.244-07:002009-08-27T22:04:22.244-07:00Race Report: Run Like Hell 10KThat’s it. (I think.) My last race of 2008. (Maybe.)Run Like Hell is an annual mid-October event here in Portland, with – as the name suggests – a Halloween theme. (I saw people dressed as bumble bees, Ghostbusters and Dick Cheneys. I went as a middle-aged wannabe runner.) In the past, Run Like Hell offered a half-marathon and a 5K, but this year a 10K was added to Petenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-36225614248224404432008-10-19T16:16:00.001-07:002008-10-19T16:21:19.767-07:002008-10-19T16:21:19.767-07:00BustedMaybe John McCain is right. Maybe we do need to talk more about those allegations of voter registration fraud. Let's start here and here.Petenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-3291223123114810882008-10-18T14:01:00.001-07:002008-10-18T18:57:08.256-07:002008-10-18T18:57:08.256-07:00Blind Pilot The Portland band Blind Pilot is terrific. I've been listening to them constantly the last few months. Finally cranked up the Googler to find out a little bit more about them and how cool is this: They just finished a West Coast tour and they did it on bikes. For the second time. Awesome.Petenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-83448569573090654772008-10-14T11:34:00.000-07:002008-10-14T11:36:33.969-07:002008-10-14T11:36:33.969-07:00Blue Oregon, Red OregonFivethirtyeight.com profiles the Oregon electorate.Petenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-42281115273472499802008-10-12T23:11:00.000-07:002008-10-12T23:13:51.169-07:002008-10-12T23:13:51.169-07:00Hey, Look Over ThereAt the narrow column on the left side of this page, I mean. See the first entry on that roster of PRs? Notice the date? That's right, I got a new one this past weekend! (The old 5K PR was 19:57, established in August this year.) And Niko was great in the kid 1K. Pictures and a few details later this week.Petenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-56340292670625825972008-10-05T09:34:00.000-07:002008-10-05T13:59:14.788-07:002008-10-05T13:59:14.788-07:00Abbreviated Race: ReportWould it be a DNS or DNF? I'd known for a while that, barring a miracle, my 2008 Portland Marathon would be one or the other: I'd either sleep in and the race would go in the books as a Did Not Start, or I'd give it a go and end up with my first Did Not Finish. Clearly, this Achilles/ankle/heel injury was only going to get better with an extended break from running (among Petenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-83217894911076727402008-10-03T08:27:00.000-07:002008-10-03T13:01:54.585-07:002008-10-03T13:01:54.585-07:00The Morning AfterDuring the primaries I wrote some political posts. I took them down because, well, I wasn't impressed by them. Just more spouting off in a world long on opinions but painfully short on wisdom. I'll probably come to see this fresh rant in the same vein, and it may be gone before any of my three or four readers sees it. But ridiculously, right now, it is important to me....Nothing Petenoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-33740159799622924202008-10-01T23:05:00.000-07:002008-10-01T23:18:15.151-07:002008-10-01T23:18:15.151-07:00Up in the AirDamn, I'm finding it difficult to give up on running the Portland Marathon this coming Sunday. I'm signed up and paid up. It's right here in my hometown. I've got to run! But I'm injured. It's "the Achilles thing" I mentioned several weeks ago. Except, now I'm not so sure it's the Achilles. Might be a "posterior heel thing." Whatever: I run for a few miles and there's pain and Petenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-78750106899131083602008-09-21T09:12:00.000-07:002008-09-21T09:28:19.271-07:002008-09-21T09:28:19.271-07:00Goodbye, SummerA dreary, drippy day in Portland today. Where did a boy's summer go?Fourth of July Weekend Trip to San JoseAtop Mount TaborHarry (Potter) in the HammockLate August at 6,500 feet on Mount HoodColumbia River GorgePetenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-50873744358120432372008-09-20T13:41:00.000-07:002008-09-20T13:51:50.663-07:002008-09-20T13:51:50.663-07:00Market BountyPer Saturday custom, I walked over to the Hollywood Farmers' Market today. Couldn't wait to roast those eggplant.Petenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-30348784185832685032008-08-31T23:11:00.000-07:002008-08-31T23:28:51.093-07:002008-08-31T23:28:51.093-07:00Race Report: City of Portland TriathlonJust the other day I was telling Niko, in that Dad-teaches-boy tone that he must really love, that not all failures are bad. "If you think about what happened, you can learn from the experience," I said, after he got scared, nearly fell and ended up dejectedly walking his bike down a short, gravelly descent. I could have stopped there, but if you're going toPetenoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707623.post-70441891770211882702008-08-30T22:57:00.000-07:002008-08-30T23:00:53.820-07:002008-08-30T23:00:53.820-07:00Your Action News Team at 5, 6 and 11Petenoreply@blogger.com0