Bike Roadways Clear of Cars- Count me in!

As I was trying my best to fall asleep the other night, I was reminded of what I wanted to do this weekend and hollered through my closed door to my roommate, “Hey, You want to go for a ride this weekend?” For this Sunday is Sunday Parkway in Northeast Portland. I have recently enjoyed some of the fantastic bike events held by various organizations in Portland and this is definitely an event I want to check out. From 10am- 3pm this Sunday, city streets in Northeast will be shutdown to walkers, bikers, children and anyone/anything that is NOT a car! The route will connect to four parks and I guess there will even be food, music and activities mixed in along the route. I am stoked! I have recently convinced my roommate that biking is the best new sport in the world and she needs to try it out! She has followed suit with my enthusiam.


I also just bought some fresh Oregon strawberries from the farmers stand near my work and it just reminded me I really need to check out the Portland Farmers market and maybe take a trip out to Sauvie Island and see what Kruger’s Farm has growing. Fresh local food is so much better than that stuff that comes from California. The strawberries literally melted in my mouth and made me wish for summer to come faster!

Its supposed to be 70 and cloudy this weekend. So I am hoping the weather holds up as I have lots of adventure plans in store!

A little helping hand goes a long ways from a Mother’s Day Card

So I could have bought a card, that would have been stashed away in the junk drawer… and I could have bought flowers that would have died in about a week… and I could have spent money on another item that my Mum probably doesn’t need. But instead I took on a giant…a hillside to be exact. I hope all adventures this weekend, involved Mums, as mine sure did. It was a lovely weekend in the PNW and a lovely weekend to tackle the horrid Salal bushes that were weeding up my Mum’s hillside below her deck. This involved two days worth of chopping up roots with a pick axe, avoiding horrid looking spiders, trying to ignore the buzzing bees and getting into fights with blackberries and ivy that were mixed in. After much sweating, grunting and falling over I sure got somewhere with the hill and I felt a big achievement to offer my Mum this gift and saved her a lot of money from having to hire a landscaper. Of course I didn’t do it all alone, I made sure to give Mum the small jobs like picking up dirt/twigs and telling her to rest when needed. We were a good team and it was a good Mother’s day. Of course we enjoyed some of the local luxuries like the Chambers Bay Grill. The clouds were coming in, threatening to ruin the sunshine we had worked in all day but we got an appetizer of BBQ flat bread and a refreshing glass of wine to cheer in the work we achieved that day. To top the weekend off, I dragged my tired self up and made a delicious dinner of Orange Chicken. This is a fantastic recipe!

All my muscles are feeling the burn this week, but man it was achievement I am sure proud of.

What was your Mother's Day adventure?