Raving Amicks

Dad and I had a little collaborative effort tonight and made this great dish you see below.

Neal Creek is almost frozen over and Hood River is like 99% frozen over. My grapefruit trees are in the garage loving the space heater. When it’s the coldest, it’s probably like 35 degrees aroud the trees.

I had the opportunity to design the poster for a show my painting class is putting on called “LOW DEFINITION”. Our paintings reference the Chuck Close style (abstraction via pixelation).

Inspired by a friend’s recent skillet apple pie, I made my own from this recipe. It’s a really annoying site that makes you have a log in, so I’m also posting the recipe below.

The only thing that I would change is to add a little salt to both the crust and liquid mixture that you pour over the apples. Otherwise, the crust came out beautifully and it’s a mighty tasty, homey pie.

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On Tues. am (10/13) it snowed and stuck here at the house. Melted after about an hour, but it’s a harbinger of winter. (Harbinger was a character in what movie)?

A couple weekends ago I was scheduled to participate in a triathlon with Tatsuya Kee a long time friend, team-mate, and fellow lifeguard and another friend. The person doing the running leg backed out and then Trevor Whittle said he would do it. After a second fall out with Trevor backing out as well I said to hell with it I’ll do it if no one else. But then I realized, I know a great runner that would love to do this, since he hasn’t ran competively in some years now, who else than Hughie my dad. So I called dad and sure enough he was on board.
All said and done it was a great race!