Tag: oregon
member name: Sheila Deeth
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December 11, 2008 08:22 PM EST --
My Mum couldn't possibly have managed the stairs, but Pittock Mansion's fully equipped with the original elevator, built because the owners of long ago had need of it.
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December 11, 2008 07:45 PM EST --
Yesterday we went shopping and bought real (English!) mince pies, so now we're ready for Christmas. And today...
we drove to Pittock Mansion
to enjoy . . .
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December 11, 2008 08:02 PM EST --
Pittock Mansion's just a little way outside Portland, a lovely old house surrounded by incredible views, and saved from demolition by incredible people. To celebrate Christmas, they've . . .
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December 11, 2008 09:18 PM EST --
If you don't like stairs you enter Pittock Mansion by the servants' entrance.
But even the servants got views from the laundry room.
We fell in love with . . .
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January 24, 2009 02:22 AM EST --
The sun was shining. The skiers were skiing. And the car park was full.
But my husband dropped us at the lodge
and Mum even walked on the snow to take this view.
See—just . . .
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January 24, 2009 02:31 AM EST --
We wrapped up warm—it was a cold, cold day
as we went for a walk in Tualatin Hills nature park.
Even the trees were wearing their fur coats
fur mittens too
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January 16, 2009 01:27 PM EST --
Our friend Gina took us out for a drive yesterday
on the open road.
It was a cold and frosty morning
but the sun soon boiled the frost to mist
and we continued . . .
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