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Thrill seeker

She's a thrill seeker, like her mom. This is a little slide that belongs to the kids at the end of the block. It's out on the sidewalk and it was there when we passed by, so she climbed on. I'm pretty sure that this was on a dog walk with Izzy that Robin and Kins took with me. 

Gil hadn't been eating his dog food for the last couple of days, so Joan cooked up some chicken and rice for him, and he gobbled it down and promptly fell asleep. 

And today was the last day of the painters. It's nice to go to bed knowing that someone won't be climbing all over the house at eight a.m. before you wake up. And I bet the dogs will be happy too. 

And our Warriors won.  

(night off)

Still a little weighed down by the congestion. The good news is that the painters should finish up tomorrow. Oh, the joy!

Not much happened at all, but Joan cooked us up a couple of great steaks and baked potatoes. Great meal. How about that volcano in Hawaii? 

This was one of my favorite pictures.

Besties for Resties

The caption above translates to "best friends for the rest of our lives".

Look, ducks!

I asked Joan if anything exciting happened on Saturday. She said, "No". The only thing was I took Joan's car to go to MEAT, a pet food store on Burnside. There was no problem. We had a take-home pizza from Papa Murphy's which I seem to scramble into names like Father O'Hara's. That's something you do, Judy calls them "Mommyisms" I think, so I guess if it's something you inherit I inherited that from you. 

We got the vegetable garden one. It doesn't have meat, and a lot of their pizzas have lots of meat. They've got a stuffed pizza with five different meats. Their Italian sausage is rough on Joan digestive tract, so if I want to eat the meaty ones I have to wait for her to go on a trip for a few days. 

If it were Father O'Hara's Pizza, he could bless each pizza before a customer took it out the door.

 

The weather was great too

These are the folks across the street. Really nice. When I'm walking Izzy around noon I often see them coming home from the little one's preschool. Diana, the mom, dug out some old toys that were age-appropriate for Kinsley when she was here. 

The house painting is still going on. Mostly doing the trim. The painters were doing the railings for the front porch, and the porch itself, so we had to go in and out the backdoor all day. I'm guessing that the back door and porch would be off-limits when they come back on Monday. Everyone on the block says it's looking good. 

We were feeling good enough to get out and drive around. We went across the Columbia River to a hobby store in Vancouver, Washington that had wooden house numbers. With a new paint job we want a new set of street numbers on the front of the house so people can find us easier. The only problem was that my knee started acting up so I limped a little more than normal. When we got home the my medical folks called and said they had to cancel my orthopedic appointment next week until the week after that. Oh well.

We ate lunch at the Jersey Mike's out near the Portland Airport. It's not like going into the place on Front Street in Keyport, but I really like the sandwiches. Right after we sat down with our sandwiches a women's college softball team came in and lined up for sandwiches. Glad we got there before they did. 

Tonight our basketball team, the Warriors played a pretty bad game against the New Orleans Pelicans. Oh well. 

 

One of my favorite pictures

That was a great day. That age they can have great fun and do the same thing over and over until they run out of energy and crash. And then it's tear time. 

Today was a nice sunny day, but the painters had us surrounded and the cleaning lady had us inside the house. Poor Izzy peed on the rug. Otherwise, and the fact that we're still a little sick but almost better, but without energy. Well, we're doing great.

Shopper

I think Robin took this picture before she came up here. 

Meanwhile, we're getting better here in our sick house. Joan's still has a bad cough, mine's subsiding, but neither of us have much energy. Meanwhile, the painters are almost done. There's still some trim work to do, but almost done. We actually had some sun today and the temperature got into the seventies. 

Well, here is the little criminal who got us sick. Robin took her to the Portland Zoo with an old college friend who lives up here in Portland. They didn't take all that much in because, well, the kids. 

Joanie is about a day behind me, so hopefully she'll be feeling better tomorrow. I'm feeling better today, but not much stamina. 

The painters are back. We asked them to stop during Robin's visit, but they're back painting now. Joan freaked out because she was sitting on the toilet on the second floor when a painter suddenly appeared in her window. On a ladder. 

Oh well. They'll be gone in a few days and we'll have the spiffiest house on the block.

Sick day

I spent the day in bed, and by tonight Joan's sick too. 

I've gotten two colds in the seven years I've been up here. One was from Oliver and one was from Kinsley. Kids are really dangerous.