Good-Bye, Kitchen; Hello, Oregon

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​GOOD-BYE, KITCHEN; HELLO, OREGON

 ...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. 

     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.  

     I zigged and zagged my way through two surprisingly crowded airports; First Columbus, from where I departed,

...then Atlanta, where my flight laid over, 

...and where the line for every potential fast-food breakfast spot ran on beyond Zebra. 

     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,   

...catching a glimpse of Portland on the way,

...until we reached Sherwood, where the hardwood trees of this area were beautifully decked out in the deciduous fall colors.

        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.

        Romaine had a salad,

...while I had a tasty veggie and cream cheese sandwich served with a side of the most unforgettably delicious homemade potato chips.

      After lunch we took a walk around downtown Sherwood,

...and through the park.

    Then we headed back to Romaine's cheerful, cozy house.

     My room,

...and Sweet Lucy, always holding down the fort.

    I took a once-around-the-backyard,

 ...then we settled  into the family room,   

,,,and, as my mind has recently been wandering to the possibility of my inexplicably recalcitrant new kitchen countertops being infested by some michevious gremlins,

... we decided to watch "Gremlins."