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What a weekend- Thursday I sailed. Friday afternoon I drove up to Trillium Lake and flyfished for a couple hours. Spent the night on Still Creek deep inside the woods. Saturday I fished for another couple hours. Came back to Portland, went to Powells, then spent the afternoon reading an entire book. (More on that [...]

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I can’t believe that August is a day away! This summer has flown by, unfortunately not due to fun but work.
Even now I am sitting in the truck as my coworker sprays the levee. Sometimes updating the blog with two thumbs on my phone is all I get.
The boat is coming slow. I’m okay with [...]

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Ok, thats not quite true. I’ve got lots of words to use, but they are
all four letters. Dogs got sprayed tonight by a skunk. Not sure which
one instigated it, but they are all covered. It happened on the front
porch, right next to the AC unit. So now not only does my truck stink
from taking the [...]

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I know I’ve been absent for a couple weeks. Boy, has it been busy! Perhaps I can catch up on everything later, but for now I just wanted to point out some cool Portland news!
Our city commissioners and Mayor just changed the city code today so that by November 1st of this year, all [...]

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I’m in a rush this morning for my second day of CPR Instructor
training. Got back from Vermont thursday night and its been a
whirlwind ever since. Hopefully this week will slow down a bit so I
can catch up with life and such, but I don’t expect it to. We’ve got
a lot of levee work to do [...]

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Sorry its been several days. Work has been crazy the last week or two. I’m heading off for Vermont on friday for a few day vacation.
New look tonight on the blog, we’ll see if I still like it in a few days.
Set up a new project tonight for work, check it out: www.sidrainage.org

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Louie goes on a Field Trip

Originally uploaded by JCTownsley.

Louie wasn’t sure about all the concrete and asphalt. I think he much
prefers his grassy home on the Sauvie Island…

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Louie goes on a field trip!

Originally uploaded by JCTownsley.

Louie was invited to a dinner in beaverton, no, he was not the main
course. He got to eat grass and oats instead

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I think I have screwed up the page pretty well now. But hopefully you are enjoying some of the new features. First instance, clicking on the photos to your right will lead you the back way into some photos. Notice my flickr account is now integrated into the wordpress page. Needs work.
The Archives are ‘rolling’ [...]

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It’s 2am, and I just watched four episodes of “House.” I’m making my way through season 1, after getting hooked in January on season 2. A couple realizations after watching 4 episodes in the middle of the night:
1. This is the completely wrong show to watch when you need to sleep. For the same [...]

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Not quite done yet… New software installed, but need to tweek it and pick/create a theme… Check back later tonight, now its dinner time.

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Still been too busy. We have our annual levee inspection by the US Army Corps of Engineers in a week and a half, so we’re doing everything we can to get ready.
On a side note, I was approached the other day about writing for the local paper in North Portland. Going to go meet [...]

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This is what crappy allergies do to you- force you to sit on the couch and surf the channels. Of course when you live in the boonies like I do you only get 3 channels, maybe 4 if you wrap yourself in foil and stand by a window. I must say though, that tonight’s [...]

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What a week, or month, or year it has been! I guess I lose track. It seems like yesterday was November when I started this job. It’s been an interesting time thus far, and definitely challenging. 12 months ago I would have never guessed that I would be communicating with Senators and Representatives reguarly. [...]

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A long time it has been they may say… It is may 13th, 2006- I’m driving down a mountain right now after spending the afternoon among the gods…
Perhaps it isnt really worth reliving the last two or three months on this blog. I may at somepoint reflect on much that has occurred. but today is [...]

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