16 July 06
Herman, Fup, Mango, and Chocolate
We just got back from a weekend trip to Portland, where we visited our blogging friends Dale and Susan. They were grand hosts, and they introduced us to Dale’s old buddy Herman the 10-foot sturgeon at the Bonneville Fish Hatchery, Susan’s faun-colored kitty Mango, her affectionate tortoiseshell cat Bit, and her ball-obsessed dog Joey. I also learned that Oregon is a fine state for chocolate, starting with the Moonstruck Chocolate café downtown, and moving south to Dagoba chocolate made in Ashland. At Powell’s, where I spent about three-and-a-half hours all told, they were having the 18th birthday party for Fup, the store cat at the technical bookstore two blocks from the mother ship.
All in all, Portland is a wonderful place.
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Bit waves hello over the disgusting carcass of a tennis ball dumped in front of her by “that dog”