Monday, October 21: Enjoying the fall colors in Kathy’s yard on the way to and from Joan’s storage unit to keep going through the remaining stuff in there.

 

Tuesday, October 22: Had lunch with Kathy and Kent at a place that had this gorgeous mural on the side of their building. We’d driven by it the day before on our way to lunch at a different place and saw a sign that said “homemade pie” outside, so swung by after that lunch to grab a couple of slices to take home and liked the look of the menu enough to come back. They had an excellent hard cider selection, from which I chose a Mandarin Juniper from Bend Cider Co. to complement my meal.

 
Wednesday, October 23: Started the day with a power outage, though I didn’t at first know it was a power outage as I at first thought the outlet I plugged my laptop into was bad or my power cord was bad or something in my laptop itself was bad. A few outlets later and a check on my phone of the power company site showed it was their issue, not mine. Since cooking was out, took a run to the fancy grocery store with Kathy to get some pastries and such. Saw these interesting spooky looking dusty white pumpkins outside the store.

 
Thursday, October 24: Big big day for the storage unit clean out project: found a place other than the dump to take the behemoth of an electric organ that the assisted living place foisted on Joan when she moved in and then refused to take back after she died. If she’d played it at all ever in the years she lived there, that would be one thing, but that it just sat there taking up space felt like the facility just foisted a problem off onto our family that’s taken us two-plus years to deal with. Such a relief to have it gone.

 
Friday, October 25: Mr. Karen and I made one last stop at the storage unit to pick up a small end table we claimed, then headed for home knowing we’d made great progress on clearing that space out. Could be as little as one more trip to finish it. Had conveyor belt sushi in greater Seattle as treat before making the rest of the journey. Hit a rest area at the right time to catch the sunset before we got to Spokane.

 
Saturday, October 26: I went to a friend’s Halloween party down in Spokane. I hadn’t made time to figure out a costume, so I grabbed a witch hat and purple cape I had on hand from prior years and wore those with my regular clothes, calling myself “casual Friday witch”.

 
Sunday, October 27: Mr. Karen and I went to town to run some errands and did our walk there rather than up on the mountain. Several times we crunched our way over leaf-covered sidewalks.

 

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