New Car!

I'm working on getting down to one car these days. We are selling our Trusty Volkswagen Van, and our Subaru, and buying a used 2003 eurovan. I bought it from the East coast, and it was delivered, in an icestorm! The Local Interstate without any cars on it is a interesting thing:


So anyway, I'm selling the Subaru to CopperWest, the Real Estate Comany, then we'll convert that over to a Biodiesel Mercedes sometime next year. Since the restaurants put put about 30 gallons of fry oil a week, I'll have plenty of B-100 to use to drive clients around.








Now if only I could find a Diesel Eurovan..........

















Oh, and here's all our UPS drivers doing the daily "package exchange" down at the port. Kind of a funny regular occurence this time of year.................

TV Crew!

Celilo got some good press a couple weeks back.......................

http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=6855&SOURCE=RSS

And that prompted Japan TV to come and shoot our customers having Dinner..........

Let's see..........

In No particular order.........

Jay Kepoikai Meyer (Nathaniel Kepoikai's namesake)
Being all Metro during a visit.......


Nathaniel, on a trip to the Coast. Lazy Susan Breakfast


Our Most beloved, Eric Sanford, being his usual, Dorky self.........


Nathaniel's Train from some boxes and the mixer bowl..............


Kepoikai, on our inaugural flight. Bought the plane, Demoed it in about a half hour.....


Uncle Jeff (Jay's Brother) Getting out the Hoses during Nathaniel's fire station visit....................







Interiors of Celilo just after the timbers got placed................


Detail of the Tenon construction. Kenny Ezzell was pretty amazing on this job.




The Yasui building, still fully scaffolded.


During the Fall, a trip to the Hood River Fly in. Nathaniel, Sean Arpag and Niko Swihart, next to the West Side Pumper Truck.................


Here's a couple of Photos from Nathaniel's Birthday Party. Lots of guests, A great cake (again) and sushi, Treasure Hunts and the like........





Here's me later that same day, cleaning out the guest bath cupboard and seeing if I can check my Blood Pressure.........


The Mayor of Hood River, Getting a ticket

Catching up!

Well, well, Looks Like I've fallen and can't get up. (Or caught up, anyway.)

Let's see. I'm blogging quickly back to march, and through the Summer....Yikes-


Basically, Mayhem. From Start to Finish. The Two major events of this year are.

1. Julia!
Isn't she a looker! Our little girl has been nothing but a trooper and Mom should be cannonized. Julia has been a treat fromt he word go.

2. The New Yasui and Celilo










We got the Restaurant open after a bunch of challenges (No Power, Feuds with the City, Blah Blah blah......) And have been going gangbusters ever since. Here's some photos of the Restaurant Celilo.



And some more of my Copper West Brokerage office..........





And now, it's winter, and we are tucked away in our new building, broke (seriously) but stabilized. All in all, a very rewarding year. Nathaniel continues to grow up and Julia figured out how to talk last night.......and so she did!