Awake: 5:31am Temp 67 sleep 7+04 sunny overnight @ Portland, OR.
K & I attend 8:00am Mass with Shirley @ Our Lady of Lourdes church in
Vancouver, WA; John was working on the renovation of their rental house.
Afterward, we invite Shirley to join us for breakfast @ the Peachtree
Restaurant on hwy 99 again. It was another good gab session with Shirley &
another good breakfast as well.
From here, K & I drive over to Rochelle’s home & spend (3) hours & (15)
min with her & their (3) kids. To start, we play another (2) games of
“WhooNU” with Monica & Maggie. Maggie plays the game well for being (5)
yrs of age; she does need a little reading help from Rochelle. Maggie was
delighted to show us a large box of her work from pre-school last year;
looks like she’s ready to tackle kindergarten!
Then Monica shows me the paper airplane she made yesterday with a heavier
paper. I wasted no time in giving it a flight test & it flew like “a
vulture” which is good. Monica quickly caught on to making these paper
airplanes. Although Donavan can’t as yet make these airplanes, he did
enjoy flying them.
Next, I demonstrate to Monica the “almost top-secret method” of
constructing the fast flying….jet paper airplane (FFJPA). Usually this
highly classified model is withheld until age (10) @ which time, kids can
usually handle the higher speed & longer distance the jet can fly. But
Monica is an exception; she has already exhibited the fast learning skills
necessary to withstand this advanced procedure.
Now we take the “vulture” & the “FFJPA” outdoors for more testing. Ouch,
the temp outside didn’t go over so well with any of us & quickly drove us
back inside to air conditioned comfort. Inside, we played our own game of
“fishing for imaginary fish” & I think maybe this was Donavan’s favorite
game as he kept wanting to “fish” some more and then be the “fish.” We
also launched the “FFJPA” even faster with the booster rocket method
(rubber band). Kathy & I had a lot of fun with all (3) of the kids; it
seems that with each visit, we are having more fun with them than the last
visit.
We leave around 1:15pm to consider hiking again in the West Hills of
Portland. It didn’t require complicated equations to figure out: with
temps over 100 degrees, hiking up & down hills is not being smart. We
remain in our air conditioned bus the rest of this day spending some time
going thru more of our mail, discarding & shredding 2005 papers no longer
needed.
7:20 dinner: Beef Nachos…..very tasty!
We watch a satellite movie: “The Verdict” with Paul Newman, Charlotte
Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, etc. Boston lawyer, Newman, hit
bottom, until a medical negligence case gives him a chance to restore his
self-esteem while fighting for the kind of justice he still believes
in….it is a “make you feel good “ story you won’t want to miss.
High temp=104 Lights out: 1:10am
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