Coming back to life

My the sunshine was a welcome change yesterday... The main reason for the scandalous lack of posts lately is the fact that I've practically not left the house since.... well, Christmas Eve. Our usual park visits and walks have been on hold until the weather gets less sucky. So I for one was pleased to see the sun. Of course I need to cut the grass now....

On Sunday we all went on a walk over to the Post Office to drop some cards in the mail, and then headed back up towards the Village. For some reason, I decided that I wanted to walk down the dirt-and-gravel portion of 37th(?) and down the "whole" Village main drag past the white house where Sip D'Vine used to be and the new building is now going up.

We got the the intersection of 37th and that little spur of Capitol that runs under the Bridge to Mulnomah Blvd just in time to see somebody's nice newish Porsche Cayenne get T-boned by someone coming down Multnomah, who clearly was not expecting them to pull out just then. Jr. V announced that he had never seen a real crash before. Many folks went out to attend to the participants, so we kept our distance. I hope no one was hurt - it was a rtaher hard crash and the airbags in the Cayenne deployed. That road is very dangerous. Pay close attention is you're using that little "shortcut" to get down to Multnomah. For our part, we always head to the signal by the Post Office.

We passed the new building and noticed a sign up announcing the impending opening of the shoe store I've mentioned a couple of times, Switch Shoes. The link points to their very pink website.

Oh by the way, I've been a regular at the Multnomak Neighborhood Association meetings since the summer. But this month's meeting, on Valentine's Day? Yeah, I'll be bailing on that one. I can think of maybe one or two things slightly more romantic than discussing traffic lights and drainage on that particular day.

Call me a slacker.