Codi went to Nordstrom for a while today. I waited for her at Brookstone, relaxing in a massage chair. One of the best inventions ever – the Brookstone foot massager. It massages your feet like a paint shaker at Home Depot – the small motor makes about 20 revolutions per second and just about numbs the peds. It has a shiatsu massager as well. So nice!

“We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will �talk sense to the American people.� But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.” — President JOHN F. KENNEDY

“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” — Ronald Reagan

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Codi and I went to The Oregon Garden in Silverton today. It’s about 45 mins south of Lake Oswego in a very nice rural area (well, some of it was nice and some of it was pretty run down).

The Oregon Garden has acres and acres of gardens (surprise!), but not typical gardens. These gardens contain almost every plant or tree naturally occurring in Oregon. There were also a lot of frog ponds for some reason.

It was a worthwhile trip, though I imagine that the gardens would be much more vibrant and green in the Spring.

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