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Good morning, my friends. Our window guy is coming today. It's been over a year since he's been here. With all the dust stirred up when Mike mowed our overgrown field recently, the windows can use some work. Our "window guy," Scott has been washing our windows since 1990. He's kind of like family. Still...I'd like to be dressed and showered when he gets here. It'll be nice to have clean windows.

Yesterday's slow-stitching had me finishing up the 11th of 12 blocks for Grandpa's Bridges.

Good morning, my friends. Our window guy is coming today. It's been over a year since he's been here. With all the dust stirred up when Mike mowed our overgrown field recently, the windows can use some work. Our "window guy," Scott has been washing our windows since 1990. He's kind of like family. Still...I'd like to be dressed and showered when he gets here. It'll be nice to have clean windows.

Yesterday's slow-stitching had me finishing up the 11th of 12 blocks for Grandpa's Bridges.

Good morning, my friends. There was a red sky this morning. I happen to know it isn't because a storm is coming. I know this because Portland, Oregon, and the surrounding Willamette Valley are under the first ever extreme heat advisory. Hot weather will arrive tomorrow. I suspect what we're seeing in our red sky is from wildfire smoke.

Good morning, my friends. There was a red sky this morning. I happen to know it isn't because a storm is coming. I know this because Portland, Oregon, and the surrounding Willamette Valley are under the first ever extreme heat advisory. Hot weather will arrive tomorrow. I suspect what we're seeing in our red sky is from wildfire smoke.

Good morning, my friends. I'm writing fast this morning. We have to drive into town to get the windshield replaced on Mike's truck. Yes, the windshield. Do you remember the windshield episode...the one where we weren't even two hours on our way for our trip to Alaska when a gravel truck threw a rock and broke our windshield? Oh yeah...that was fun...and annoying.

Good morning, my friends. I'm writing fast this morning. We have to drive into town to get the windshield replaced on Mike's truck. Yes, the windshield. Do you remember the windshield episode...the one where we weren't even two hours on our way for our trip to Alaska when a gravel truck threw a rock and broke our windshield? Oh yeah...that was fun...and annoying.

Someone had asked me a while back if I was excited about this trip. It's hard to get excited when there is so much work to be done and so many things happening between now and then. Even now, when the departure is fast approaching, it's hard to get excited. I'll be excited when I step on the plane. 

Yesterday was a very long day, but I'm happy to report that the project I was working on is done. Or I should say complete enough that it looks done. There's a wee bit of hand ...

The countdown is on for this trip, and I'm pretty much organized. I packed my small backpack yesterday - the important one with my protein bars, all the medication, and a few other things, like three pairs of glasses! I have a few other small things to pack, but it should easily be under 10 lbs. 

I got a chuckle as we've heard many times about small planes that you need to get from one destination to another, which we have to take for parts of this trip. I believe the maximum weight per passenger is 20 KG, and ...

Good morning, my friends. It's our last morning on the road. We've crossed the border into the United States, and we're here to stay for a while. Probably a long while. We'll be doing more traveling eventually, but we have no plans to travel internationally at this point.

After the heat of the day before, we got on our way early. As it turns out, it never got very hot yesterday, but we took no chances. We needed fuel, and the cheapest fuel was down the road in the Ashcroft First Nation territory. As we drove ...

Good morning, my friends. It's our last morning on the road. We've crossed the border into the United States, and we're here to stay for a while. Probably a long while. We'll be doing more traveling eventually, but we have no plans to travel internationally at this point.

After the heat of the day before, we got on our way early. As it turns out, it never got very hot yesterday, but we took no chances. We needed fuel, and the cheapest fuel was down the road in the Ashcroft First Nation territory. As we drove ...

Yes -- I need to figure out how to change the stride on this new fitness tracker. I haven't found that yet, BUT I found the sleep app. Someone at the retreat mentioned that they use the sleep app to monitor their sleep, and I dismissed it. How can this app know so much about your sleep from a little band around your wrist? You think I would know better by now. 

So I did that last night. And I had looked at my previous night's sleep. OMG -- it's pretty bang on. And the snoring? There's even ...

Good morning, my friends. It's our last morning in Canada. We'll cross the border into Washington state toward the end of today's drive. We'll spend one more night in Mt. Vernon, Washington, and then we'll make the last leg of the journey toward home tomorrow. We're all pretty well ready to be off the road.

So, let's back up to our drive from Quesnel to Ashcroft yesterday. Before I go on, I want to address a couple of things I said in yesterday's post. For one thing, the air-conditioning in the truck ...

Good morning, my friends. It's our last morning in Canada. We'll cross the border into Washington state toward the end of today's drive. We'll spend one more night in Mt. Vernon, Washington, and then we'll make the last leg of the journey toward home tomorrow. We're all pretty well ready to be off the road.

So, let's back up to our drive from Quesnel to Ashcroft yesterday. Before I go on, I want to address a couple of things I said in yesterday's post. For one thing, the air-conditioning in the truck ...

 I'm killing time...the last half hour before hubby takes me to Hamilton Airport, to get on the bus to Pearson Airport.  In Toronto I'll get on a plane to Heathrow in London.  

The bucket list is getting another item crossed off - I'm attending the Birmingham Quilt Festival.  Today I made a couple little cord-minders - one each for my phone and tablet.