This week? Food, Urban Sketching, a birthday, chatting with friends from France – all good. Last Friday after posting our blogs we headed to the Yamhill Valley for lunch and a wine tasting. First stop, Dundee Bistro for lunch. We first went to the Dundee Bistro about 15 years ago, before we knew that Alexis…
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This week in The Pearl – August 8, 2025
Our week was a bit slower paced, with just enough activity to make it interesting, as well as a lot of cooking. Last Friday we had salad for lunch, always a favorite, we usually construct our own, here is mine. There are a few foods that sound good to me, that should work, yet when…
This week in The Pearl – August 1, 2025
One year a go today we moved into our apartment in Avignon. Tricia has posted many times about Avignon, here is my post from our first week there – it is hard to believe all that has changed. It was a good week here in The Pearl and beyond. Though I have been an Urban…
This week in The Pearl – July 25,2025
This has been a busy week, such a good week. Last Friday I met up with friend Tim to chat and play a little music. Then that evening we drove to Newberg to have dinner with Alexis and Joe. They took us a to a place that we had never been. It had been a…
This week in The Pearl – July 18, 2025
Last weekend, well actually Thursday and Friday, were such a treat. Our friends from Mukilteo, Shirley and Jim, came down to visit for two days. They are Francophiles as are we, they travel to France most every year. We met up with them there on two of their trips. This time together was bittersweet though….
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