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October 19, 2025 Sunday Today was a day for getting some things done around my son's house. Their subdivision is having a garage sale weekend next weekend so we helped prepare for that. We moved furniture to the garage and reshuffled things in the garage in order to make space and sort out things for the sale. David and our son also installed ceiling fans in two of the bedrooms. We had sausages and hot dogs with chips, queso, guacamole and salsa for lunch. Our grandson ha

October 18, 2025 Saturday The temp this morning was up to 80 before lunch time but rain was on the way. Our grandson had a birthday party to attend so he and his parents were off this morning to the party. For us it was an uneventful but enjoyable morning. The rain started right at noon and it came down heavy for a little while. Our party crew made it back home around 1:30. We played some improvised soccer for a while and then switched to airplanes. Later in the evening we

October 17, 2025 Friday Our grandson woke us up around 7:30 but after he went to pre-school we slept some more. We were both up and ready by around noon which meant only an hour and half until we had to go pick him up. We stayed and played at the church playground until about three. A short stop for a few items at Albertsons was made on the way back to the house. We did a lot of playing with the characters of Sonic the Hedgehog, airplanes and dinosaurs before dinner. We

October 16, 2025 Thursday Today is Amy’s birthday. It is also our day for flying home. We have an early evening flight which means an early morning arrival. Our hosts arrived last night around 10:00. This morning with our hosts back home we still did some things with the dogs and then we later said our goodbyes. I doubt the dogs will miss us now that they have their mom and dad home. As Mary Poppins said, “That’s as it should be.” We played ball with dogs and said our

October 15, 2025 Wednesday Our final full day in Washington. Tomorrow we fly home. This morning there was a frost with temperatures around 33 degrees. David was up early to do one last bit of hiking before our stay ends. It was cold and foggy on the drive to Lord Hill Regional Park. At the beginning of the hike David was feeling the cold but after a while that faded. He spent about two hours hiking some of the many trails in this large lush park. This was a longer hik

October 14, 2025 Tuesday An absolutely beautiful day with blue skies and highs in the low 60s. We took it easy this morning, having a little breakfast and enjoying our dogs. Around 1:00 we took a 30 minute drive to visit Granite Falls. We parked and walked down to the falls. It is a short hike to the falls down a few flights of stairs. The water falls over massive levels of gray granite in a steep granite gorge. It’s no surprise that there is a large granite mine just acr

October 13, 2025 Monday Another beautiful clear day affords us an opportunity to explore in a new direction. Today we have chosen the Leavenworth direction. The morning was as usual with the dogs and as usual not started very early. By about 11:00 we had readied ourselves for a road trip toward Leavenworth. We decided that if we didn’t make it all the way to Leavenworth we would be fine with that since we were just there a year ago. This was a beautiful drive through the m

October 11, 2025 Sunday Sunday was shaping up to be a rainy day as predicted so we planned to mostly hang around the house. Our only...

October 10, 2025 Saturday This morning we are experiencing some heavier rain. Nothing like a 52 degree rain and nothing really good...

October 10, 2025 Friday The morning began in the usual way. We had breakfast burritos and worked out our energetic doggies. We piddled...

October 9, 2025 Thursday The forecast for today was for on and off rain so we decided this would be a good day for relaxing at the house...

October 8, 2025 Wednesday 100 days of wayfaring or at least being homeless. The weather was supposed to be cooler and cloudy but it...

October 7, 2025 Tuesday Tuesday was another beautiful day and we decided that we would use that to go to downtown Seattle and...

October 6, 2025 Monday For the first few days of our stay the weather is supposed to be sunny and warm. For us that means pleasantly...

October 5, 2025 Sunday This morning we all got up, had some breakfast and continued our dog care training. This morning we learned how...

October 4, 2015 Saturday This morning we got out of the hotel at a decent time and began our day. The time for arriving at our hosts...

October 3, 2025 Friday Today we go forth into the unknown world of house and dog sitting. The alarm sounded at 3:00 am and we started...

October 2, 2025 Thursday Once again our son took our grandson to pre-school on his way to work at the university. We spent most of any...

October 1, 2050 Wednesday This morning our son took our grandson to pre-school. The rest of the morning we spent getting some laundry...

September 30, 2025 Tuesday The morning was filled with getting our little buddy fed and ready for school. We had a nice morning and our grandson went into his classroom as happy as ever. We spent the rest of the morning cleaning up the house and getting everything in order for the return of our grandson’s mom and dad. We were at the pre-school at the usual time and we stayed about an hour playing on the playgrounds. We drove home and played and had snacks for a coup