Part 2 Begins

Now it’s Thursday and I’m back. I had a good day at work and got cheese at lunch for the wine tasting, so I was able to leave right after work and got out just as traffic was starting to build. I had an easy and traffic-free drive. When I got here it was cool and cloudy – nice to be out of the smoke and heat. While I was gone Dave was so lonely that he invited the ants to join him in the house and wow did they ever take him up on it. I have never seen so many! There were 4 in the tub when I went to take my shower!  Dinner was Castaways, where the menu has gotten much smaller and the blueberry-lavender cocktail doesn’t compare AT ALL to the blueberry-lavender rickey I had in Pendleton on the way to the eclipse, but overall the food and service were both good. After dinner it was raining, which made us do the dance of joy. We stopped at the Mariner market and got some eco-friendly ant killing spray made of peppermint and rosemary oils. I’m not sure which I’d rather have, the ants or the smell of the oils – wow, is it smelly! We played one game of trouble which I won so decisively it wasn’t even fun, and then we had two very close games of farkle. Each of us sparkled. Now we are sitting by the fire, listening to the waves and killing ants.

A note on the swivel chairs. They are still ugly, but a great addition. You can swivel and look out the window, or look at the fire, or put a table between them for games.

Things I forgot: my glasses, my kindle (this trip), and a mug, because the mugs here are too small. We saw one I really liked at Imprint Gallery, but I didn’t like it $38 worth.