Fall Ahead...
So it's December first. I'm a working away organizing the office for my parents Christmas Wreath Shop for another season. I've learned that the Christmas wreath business is ever changing...
My home remodeling went very well and the kitchen is all done and the bathroom is done minus some painting. It of course took much longer than I anticipated to finish the bathroom and I ended up working on it on and off until the beginning of October.
The scumbags who organized the Shakedown Music Festival and accepted my $500 Vending Fee have decided to wallow in their scumbagness and the two parties involved blame each other for the failure of the festival and refuse to return any of the vending fees to anyone.
I've got a few more weeks of work and then who knows???
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The Summer's Almost Gone... (Again!)
I moved into my house about a month ago and living there is very nice. I have been working on my bathroom remodel recently. I tore everything out and am building a walk in tile shower. I think it will look pretty sharp when I am all done, which will hopefully be within two weeks.
Last weekend I headed up to Washington for the Dave Matthews Band at the Gorge Amphitheater and the Seattle Hempfest. This upcoming weekend I am headed back to the Gorge again to watch Pearl Jam and Tom Petty.
Vending has been going ok at best. At the Seattle Hempfest I only broke even on buying my vending pass when I sold the pass to a guy as I was leaving. I was supposed to be at the Shakedown Music Festival this weekend but I found out it was canceled as I showed up to it. Supposedly I am going to get a refund of my quite sizable vending fee, so I am keeping my fingers crossed for now. But I did well at the Gresham Farmers Market yesterday and my brother helped me built a great huge display rack for all my jewelry.
I turned twenty six years old a few days ago, Yee-Ha!
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July Updates...
Work at my house is going well and I am almost ready to move in. I have put in a new slate floor in the kitchen along with new tile counters and a new sink and a dishwasher, which required some cabinet re-modification. It looks pretty sharp now. I will be done with the kitchen tomorrow probably and then put a new coat of finish on the hardwood floors, wait a few days for that to dry and move in!
Besides working at my house whenever I get a chance I have been making it to a few farmers market days to try to sell some hemp jewelry and to a few other fun events like the Widespread Panic concert at the Gorge Amphitheater, the Oregon Country Fair and the amazingly cool Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals concert last week.
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Swede the homeowner.
I bought a small brick house in South East Portland yesterday. I am doing a few projects with the kitchen and bathroom and painting everything before I get completely moved in.
Thank You to my brother Lars for helping me work and to my dad Frank for selling me the house and for his advice.
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First roadtrip down, many more to come...
I left on Thursday morning, April 21st, to head over to Grand Forks, North Dakota in my van to visit my friends and to attend the Pi Kappa Phi Roseball Formal. After two days of uneventful driving I pulled into Grand Forks and rendezvoused with Pete and my other friends at the Down UNDer pub to partake in some $1.50 pitchers of beer.
The weekend went by pretty fast and I had plenty of fun, but it seems like not much ever changes in ol' GF, ND.
Tuesday afternoon I drove down to the Minneapolis suburb of Edina to visit my friend Jack. After getting my entire dose of television in for the whole year I departed Edina on Thursday morning to begin strangely enough the funniest part of my trip, touring South Dakota & Wyoming. I visited
Mt. Rushmore,
Crazy Horse,
Jewel Cave &
Devil's Tower before heading off across Wyoming towards Yellowstone National Park. However when I arrived in Cody, Wyoming I found out that the road to Yellowstone was
closed for another week. So I trucked it up through Montana and then followed the scenic Highway 12 through Idaho, following Meriwether Lewis & William Clark's original route and brought me back home on Sunday evening of May 2nd.
While driving through Clarkston, Washington at about 45 MPH I heard a loud thunk and looked in my mirror quickly to see a small white object bouncing down the road behind my van. At first thinking some critical part of my van fell off I then realized that I had somehow been just lucky enough to have been hit with a golf ball from the nearby course. What are the chances?
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Spring Update
Two Thousand and Five has been a pretty relaxed year so far. I have been working on my family's tree nursery part time and having good times with my brother Lars the rest of the days.
I bought a Ford E-150 Van to replace my long time faithful friend the Green Ford Ranger. Old Ford Ranger is still around and has lots of good miles left on him, but was getting kind of worn out and uncomfortable to drive around in. The van just has the two seats up front, with the back containing a bed and plenty of room for camping gear.
So far the only definite trip I have planned is to drive to GF, ND towards the end of April. I am still thinking of a Northern Europe trip this summer, but nothing planned yet.
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A Very, Very Happy New Year!
Well it's 2005 and the Christmas wreaths and trees are all behind me now. I have just been taking it easy and trying to sort out my plans and hopes for the upcoming year. My only real plans so far are to travel to Northern Europe this Spring or Summer, check the 2005 Journey page for updated plans.
Until then I am working a little bit now finishing up some paperwork from the Wreath Shop and am working on my next venture, which is making Macramé (Hemp Jewelry). My plan is to support myself as a traveling artisan this summer. We shall see…
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