Sunday, August 26th, 2018…… Today the girls had a few items on their
plate. We got up and fixed breakfast and then they were off. They went to
Albany to the carousel. Frances said she was really impressed – another place
to bring Raymond! Then they went to Fred Meyer (her first time there) and picked up a few things for
dinner. On the way back home, they made a slight detour and Lydia drove her
through Brownsville. She has seen the movie Stand By Me and was familiar with
the scenes filmed there. Then they went back and stopped by Home Town
Furniture. They close forever next week and mailed us a discounted flyer so
Lydia wanted to see what they had plus show Frances all of the décor. Then they
stopped by Penny’s to tour the house before coming home and resting before
dinner. I fired up the bbq and cooked the tri tip plus the corn and zucchini
and mushrooms. My sister came by and we all had a nice filling meal.
Then the girls went
out and picked grapes and blueberries. The blueberries all almost gone now but
the grapes are ripe and delicious! Both Frances and Penny got some of each
bagged up to take home.
After the meal, we
all rested and watched tv and chatted – ok the girls chatted, I went in and
watched tv. I had taped the Little League World Series (congrats to the champs from Hawaii!) and all of the weekend’s
races and auctions so l had some catching up to do! Later, we called it a night
and got some needed rest. Frances flies out tomorrow so we head back to
Portland early in the morning.
Monday, August
27th, 2018…… We got everyone up, fed Rylee, and then left for
the airport about 7:00am, stopping by McDonald’s and then to get gas. We made
it with very light traffic along the way. We got there around 9:00am or so and
said our goodbyes. It was fun for Frances to finally get up here and see our
place and spend some time with us. Maybe Raymond will be able to get up here
next trip… Then it was time to head back home. I mentioned that we took Hwy 99
going up last Friday. Today, we decided to follow it home. Problem was finding
the closest intersection from the airport. The gps wasn’t exactly cooperating
but we managed to surreptitiously make our way to it. We eventually crossed
over where we exited it coming up the other day so now we know we have an
alternate route to and from the airport in case we choose to use it. The drive via hwy 99 is very interesting and goes through the Portland suburbs and then through some
small farming cities on the way south. We even stopped at a furniture store
(still pricing dining room sets) and also a fencing company. We want to close
the 165’ property line past the ‘west forty’, plus we’d like to put up 2-rail
white (poly) fencing across the front of the property. We got prices for each
but those 'sticker shock' prices will cause us to hold off for a bit! But at least we now have a comparable and can
look into alternatives (maybe Tim & Dana?) to compare prices.
We got back home in
time to feed Rylee her lunch and we ate ours as well. Then it was relaxing
until later in the day and I took off to Walmart to get steak buns for tri tip
sandwiches for dinner. We both watched a few programs together and then went
off later to each watch a few of our own taped shows.
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