Showing posts with label This Town. Show all posts
Showing posts with label This Town. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Bits of these days…

May happened so fast, is it true we almost have made it through half this year already? It surely doesn't feel possible. May has brought many hot days. I feel like I should embrace them, but instead I still detest too much sun. 

Our little neighborhood here hosts an annul parade. Exactly one year ago Sunday, the pie-truck opened during the festivities of this yearly event.


This year we're far more experienced and no longer the newbies on the block. The pie-truck has had a good year. Winter was harsh, so harsh I often began to think we were nutty dimwits for opening the whole pie deal, but as weather warms and rain becomes an occasional treat, the pie patrons are returning. As well as the resurgence of orders for salad… 




Lazy afternoon naps are something I cherish as often as possible, especially since 
my schedule has returned to morning til night; it's all pie, all the live long day. 

Fittingly I must sing; in the tune of I've been working on the rail road:

I've been working in a pie truck
All the live long day

I've been working in a pie truck
Just to pass the time away ay-ay-ay

Can't your hear the timer blaring
Biscuits out to cool

Now the customers awaiting
There's still more dough to roll

Paiku won't you roll
Paiku won't you roll
Paiku won't you roll the dough ho-ho-ho

Paiku won't you roll
Paiku won't you roll
Paiku won't you roll the dough

Someone's in the kitchen at Paiku
Someone's in the kitchen I know oh-oh-oh
Someones in the kitchen at Paiku
Rollin' out the ol' pie dough

And singing

Fee-fi-roll out the dough
Fee-fi-filly-i-roll that dough-ho
Fee-fi-filly-i-oh
Rollin' out the old pie dough



Other bits of non pie life:







                                                   I hope everyone had a tremendous Mother's Day!
      
                                                                          All my best and many cheers ~
                                                                                                Marica

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Barefooting… Meandering...

A few weeks ago my good friend, Amanda, and I decided the late afternoon was calling to be walked in. I love walks. I also have recently noticed how much my feet are wanting, shall I even say yearning, to be free of shoes. I grew up barefoot, but over the last—way to many—years I haven't bothered with too much barefootness. It never had occurred to me to take walks shoeless through neighborhoods—I have always kept shoes on when I am in town. But my feet were begging, and I realized what was stopping me was the thought of walking on filthy sidewalks. Up here it rains a lot, and I like to think it keeps the sidewalks fresh. Either way, it was a necessity… 
























                                                                                  My Best to Everyone!!!
                                                                                            ~Marica





Thursday, February 6, 2014

Snow...

We are getting snow again…
 An unexpected wonderful snow…
By late afternoon it was several inches thick so we headed over
to Cathedral Park to play for a short bit…
Snow in Portland Oregon
     It was freezing!!!
But the kids got their first ever chance to slide down a hill…
Which of course was very worth it…
My phone read nineteen degrees…
Snow in Portland Oregon
 Causing the trudge there and back to leave our fingers feeling raw and bitten…              
Something the kids are not used to… Neither am I for that matter…
But all I could think was hurray for snow!!! 
And as I said before, what a lovely surprise!

                     

                                                                  ~ Marica

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Samurai Exhibit…

A few weeks ago we managed to slip by the Portland Art Museum to see a samurai exhibit . . .
samurai
 In addition to samurai, there was also many other incredible pieces of art . . .
In the first room we found beautiful ancient Chinese statues …
Chinese art, Chinese statue, portland art museum exhibit
This one was my very favorite . . .
Chinese art, Chinese statue
It felt like an honor to be allowed to be this close to these pieces of work . . .
Chinese art, Chinese statue
Another set that truly struck me was the Japanese paintings . . .
Each detail was so extraordinarily perfect. The lines precise and tasteful . . .
The trees . . .
The horses . . .
The gentle slops that show the wind constantly moving . . .
 The samurai suits were too amazing to be real . . .
samurai
Very elaborate and in depth . . .
samurai
Each item had such careful stitching . . .
It must have taken forever to complete one of these . . .
samurai
From helmets . . .
samurai helmet

samurai  helmet
 And masks . . .
samurai mask

samurai mask
  To shoes . . .
samurai  shoes

samurai  shoes
Even their horses had masks . . .
samurai  horse mask
It was a remarkable experience . . .
Getting to witness this all in person . . .


                                                                Cheers ~ Marica