Last weekend started with Pi Day. Sunday Lunch we had a couple of our favorites. We started with tomato toasts. Tomato toasts are ubiquitous on any Spanish tapas menue, we always order them, though mine are better than any we have had anyplace else, here or in Spain. Clyde Drexler – for you non-Portland folks,…
This week in The Pearl – March 13, 2026
Last Friday we went to lunch at The Chart House on Terwilliger. This iconic restaurant’s location has some good memories for me. Before it was sold to Chart House in the 1980s it was known as Hillvilla. It was a popular place serving thousands each week. When I was about 10 years old my dad…
TheTravelsktcher’s Tuesday – Another easy way
Continuing with ideas for easy ways to capture the moments, consider an impressive, but equally intimidating place – Notre-Dame de Paris. Visualize that you are sitting in the Place de Jean Paul on a sunny day, the courtyard in front of Notre Dame. There is always a lot of activity, you ponder the church and…
This week in The Pearl – March 6, 2026
We had a wonderful weekend. Saturday we celebrated Alexis’ birthday by going for high tea at DOJA Tea Lounge in Tualatin. It is next to Tualitin Lake at The Commons. Tricia had the ‘Vegan’ – the rest of us carnivores had the ‘Citrus Menu’, though there was only a tiny bit of chicken on one…
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