Awake: 5:56am Temp 60 sleep 7+05 sunny overnight @
Portland, OR.
Rochelle calls early to report that Monica has a fever this morning so we
better skip our visiting the kids today. This virus has been going around
& Monica is the last of the family to finally get “lucky.”
Again we join John & Shirley for 8:00am Mass @ Our Lady of Lourdes church.
Afterward, Shirley invites us to their home for a breakfast of eggs, bacon
& bread with jelly. Then we look @ the picture album of John & Shirley’s
cruise from New York to Nova Scotia, September 2005.
Next we are invited (after some hinting) to see one of their rental houses
located in the area of Vancouver Lake that they are renovating. It was a
mess….after 15 yrs of renting & not much else. Luckily, Shirley’s brother,
Don, is a perfectionist wood worker & will be helping John in this
updating & renovation work.
After the rental tour, K & I go on “the hunt” to stock up our wine cellar
(closet) & take advantage of some lower priced wines in the West. Fred
Meyers in Vancouver had some of our 2nd choice wine @ a very decent price.
WinCo also in Vancouver had our 2nd choice wine….we bought all they had on
display. Safeway across the bridge in Oregon surprised us with…..too many
to buy all, but we loaded up sufficiently.
Around 7:30 dinner: salmon, baked potato, cauliflower with red pepper &
cheese sauce, spinach salad & walnut & cranberry bread.
Late movie via satellite: “The Chosen” with Rod Steiger, Maximilian
Schell, Robby Benson, Barry Miller, etc. Story of friendship between
Americanized Jew, Miller & Hassidic Jew, Benson. This movie was of added
interest to us after spending Shabat with our friends in WI. It is based
on a novel by Chaim Potok which Kathy read many years ago; the movie while
centering on Jewish issues transcends its setting to attain universal
impact. Definitely worth the watch.
High temp=84 Lights out: 11:06pm
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