Bright and early tomorrow morning I will at last be headed HOME. Dad is about back to where he was before his July tub adventure, and I think I've got an adequate support system set up for him. He will get meals on wheels five days per week and a housecleaner / general helper from senior services twice a month. I've also set up a little email group among his local friends and relatives, most of whom have told him to call for help any time.
We've had our first hard frost. I picked most of the apples from the tree in the front yard (best apples I've ever tasted, from a volunteer tree of unknown variety), mowed down the asparagus and peonies, ran the excess gas out of the weed trimmer, filled up the gas cans for the snow blower, brought in the hammock, put away the kayak: we are as prepared for winter as we can be.
Nancy and Gerry have been here for the past week. Weather has been intermittently ideal for cycling and then not so much. It snowed one day and two days later it was 70 again. But we've gotten in several good rides. Check out Nancy's blog www.adventureswithnancyg.blogspot.com for nice pictures of our adventures.
I once again find myself in that disoriented state... Is this my home, or is it on whidbey island? Should I be staying here at chippewa pines? Most of my dear, dear family is here, and every year I seem to appreciate them more. But I could say the same for my adopted family of friends out west. I miss my cat, my island, my ocean, my ferry rides, hills, Douglas firs, huge cedars surrounding my house. Sigh..... Guess I'll continue to be bicoastal.
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