Alex was recently walking about with a friend of hers here in Portland when she spotted this yard oddity. It appeared that the entire front yard of this house had been bombarded by flying forks! We were perplexed as to why anyone would decorate their yard on purpose in such a manner so I did a quick search, and apparently this is a somewhat popular prank to play on someone around the time of evening ground freezing! You stick all the forks in prong side first and then when the ground freezes obviously they are rather difficult to remove…My initial thoughts were it just looked pretty cool! I am not sure who these people pissed off, but it sure looks like they got pretty solidly pranked.

Click the pictures to closer inspect the forking!

There is no denying this is the most progressive city I’ve lived in. It’s a nice feeling, coming from AZ which is, let’s just say less progressive in many ways. The amount of great vegetarian food available in this place is amazing. I’m not a hard core vegan by any means, but let’s face it, it is in many ways more healthy when done correctly. The advances in the world of fake meat are really starting to show, Boca burgers are certainly equal or greater to most fast food burgers…and Morningstar breakfast sausage are my favorite in the morning on an english muffin…just consider this, soy has no gristle. I’ve had some great tofu scrambles in this town, Juniors Cafe is my favorite so far…their scramble is more like real eggs, which I like more than the other more overkill vegetable friendly approach, I simply hate mushrooms and broccoli unfortunately. Anyways, if you don’t believe me, just check out this great blog I discovered Stumptown Vegans, which features reviews by two Portland vegan food critics…great stuff, I’ve eaten at a few of the places they reviewed, and the reviews are on spot on.