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Good-Bye, Kitchen; Hello, Oregon

10/25/2021

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​GOOD-BYE, KITCHEN; HELLO, OREGON

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 ...Continued from 10/16/2021:
       Back over the summer when our kitchen remodeling venture was still in the embryonic stage the project manager gave us a work schedule with a final finish date of October 12. 
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     Now, I knew perfectly well that it was risky on my part to plan a trip to the West Coast for October 14, just two days after the work was supposed to be finished. Still, I opted to take a leap of faith that my kitchen would in fact be done on time, planned my trip, and had my leap fall flat as I took off on October 14 and left behind my unfinished kitchen. (See "The Gremlin In my Countertops" ​www.ailantha.com/blog/the-gremlin-in-my-countertops).
     Hence, my kitchen saga is in intermission for now.
     Anyway, on October 14 I left my kitchen drama behind and traveled to Sherwood, Oregon, a town outside Portland, to visit my sister, Romaine.  
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     I zigged and zagged my way through two surprisingly crowded airports; First Columbus, from where I departed,
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...then Atlanta, where my flight laid over, 
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...and where the line for every potential fast-food breakfast spot ran on beyond Zebra. 
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     Fortunately I had packed myself a peanut butter and cherry preserves sandwich for the trip.
     From Atlanta I flew into Portland, where my sister picked me up. We drove through the typically rainy, misty fall weather​ of the evergreen Pacific Northwest,   
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...catching a glimpse of Portland on the way,
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...until we reached Sherwood, where the hardwood trees of this area were beautifully decked out in the deciduous fall colors.
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        As it was well past noon by the time we arrived in Sherwood, we decided to head directly for lunch. Romaine took us to a cute little restaurant called Clancy's in downtown Sherwood that I'd been to on my last visit.
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        Romaine had a salad,
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...while I had a tasty veggie and cream cheese sandwich served with a side of the most unforgettably delicious homemade potato chips.
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      After lunch we took a walk around downtown Sherwood,
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...and through the park.
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    Then we headed back to Romaine's cheerful, cozy house.
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     My room,
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...and Sweet Lucy, always holding down the fort.
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    I took a once-around-the-backyard,
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 ...then we settled  into the family room,   
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,,,and, as my mind has recently been wandering to the possibility of my inexplicably recalcitrant new kitchen countertops being infested by some michevious gremlins,
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... we decided to watch "Gremlins."
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