Rainbow

Guess who posed this picture?

Today we went for a hike in the rain! We made it most of the way to Tamanawas Falls, but had to turn back before it got too dark. We also found quite a lot of mushrooms, including the elusive and highly prized matsutake (two of them! They smell like cinnamon when cut--or, in my opinion, radishes).

Then I made Thai pizza and we played Bang!--a relaxing and restorative Sunday afternoon.

Manly

Today I raked and bagged leaves and hung the last living room mini-blinds (which required installing a hand-cut shim--and wrestling with my cordless drill). It left me feeling quite accomplished--although I'm pretty sure I'll be sore tomorrow.

Pobbes kept a careful eye on us.

This morning as I was hauling the trash out to the curb (another manly task!), I noticed several crops of mushrooms in the yard. Becca came over later and helped me identify them: a bunch of (edible) fat jacks,* and some other generic lawn shrooms that she did identify, but whose name I can't recall. We have a giant oak and a giant Doug Fir in our front yard, so the lawn is a veritable fungus farm. Very exciting, of course.

*Which she took home; I'm still working on cultivating a taste for mushrooms, let alone cooking them myself.

Hood River Mountain

Today the sun came out for the first time in what felt like ages, and we went hiking. Here are some pictures.