Day 7 – my phone knows.

Started with yoga while Dave took a walk. I was more prepared for the speed of the class. There’s still one move I’m having trouble with – kneepads would help. As I left class I got a text from Dave saying he was at midtown. It was still very foggy and wet, so we went home and did some relaxing.  Dave also talked to Gordon Church, one of the owners, about the ants. Apparently the exterminator came yesterday while Dave was out of the house. Dave also sprayed the perimeter with the smelly stuff before he left for his walk, and the ants do seem much diminished.

 Lunch was Pig’n,  and we had our usual. It’s one of my favorite lunches, but once per visit is enough. After lunch we did some shopping, picking up a sparkling gewürztraminer for our Sunday wine tasting, an interesting spiced rum, and a new game called Fluxx. We also purchased and mailed a postcard for Wyoming – hope it gets there!

After the shopping we did two very fun puzzle geocaches. The first involved finding clues in a new mural that’s on the side of Whitebird gallery, then using those clues to find the cache. The second was a super fun way to see one of Cannon Beach’s real treasures – the trashcans. There were coordinates for 8 trash cans, and the information on the top was used to solve the cache, which was out by the sewage lagoons.  A sample trash can rhyme was something like Tillamook has cows/ Seaside has rides/but Cannon Beach has cans/in which we take pride. One of the trash cans had an egregious grammatical error, but fortunately it was not one of the cans in the actual puzzle. Also some of the can slogans were adapted from songs, which would make me go around humming for a while.

By the time we finished it was starting to clear up, so we went home for some relaxing. Dinner tonight was the dinner show at EVOO, which was fun as usual. The first two courses – rockfish with pasta and duck breast with succotash and a peach salsa – were standouts, as were the wines they were paired with, a prosecco rose and a LuJon Syrah from Walla Walla. Also the lemon shortbread cookie.  Then home for sitting in front of the fire. A good day.