Last week's evening of dining-out brought us at 'Social Goods Market' on Newberg's main street, a large pub and wine & beer market, which also serves some pretty good food.



Despite the rather cool weather the facade/windows of the pub were all opened up to the outside, but because the place was packed, we were cozy enough due to the heat of all the bodies! (Well, that and because we kept our coats on of course ..).

Our dinner that evening coincided with the 'First Friday Artwalk' which is held on the first Friday of the month (surprise, surprise), during which all the stores and art galleries are open until 8pm.

   

                                       

It's a fun evening to be out and about. We had not been into town much yet and it is good to see that this town is actually doing really well. All the buildings are occupied, nothing's boarded up as is the case in so many small towns elsewhere and there's a nice variety of shops from clothing to food to art.
This being Newberg, of course there's also wine to taste in almost every shop, and there's food everywhere.

Like I mentioned above the weather this week has been not much better than the previous one. It's cool, damp, and occasionally windy, but every now and than there are a few dry periods which James took advantage off by getting a very fast round of golf in ... since there wasn't anybody on the course, he managed to play a whole round in 2 hours!

But this is how it looks most days at the moment, more and more leaves are coming down, we can almost see our neighbors behind us through the trees now ..
And, especially now we lost daylight-savings-time last weekend, the days are definitely getting shorter which, combined with the dark and gloomy weather, makes it look pretty dark at 4pm already ..

My heel is still not doing much better, so I try to stay off my feet as much as I can (no morning hikes) and I now work in the office almost every morning, which is actually not so bad with all this rain and it also gives me something to do...                    

          

Not that I'm ever bored of course .. in the afternoons I enjoy my cozy little home, do some spinning, knitting, reading or puzzling, and like to work on cooking some nice fall dinners.
Like corned beef with cabbage. Not just for St. Patrick's day in this household. Yum!

Or 15-bean soup with cornbread .. a warm hearty meal for several days!



And of course I'm working on that freezer full of berries. This is a blueberry buckle ..

                                                           

So delicious! A lovely cake, our beautiful berries and than those crunchy, sweet crumbles! No calories in that one ... 😁

I guess this blog was all about food. Well .. you're a Hess or you're not!