Days 631-634

We went to John and Patty's for the fourth.  That meant that I didn't get around to writing up any entries.  This one covers the whole time.

We got somewhat of a late start on Sunday.  We also stopped in Tigard to give the dog a bath.  She had rolled in something the night before and was stinky.  When we got there we just kind of hung out.  John did a little work on his trailer.  I got bored and went shopping/exploring.  I stopped at a liquor store for some scotch and then drove down Murray past Scholl's Ferry.  That road didn't exist when we lived there.  There's all sorts of development and even a pretty big shopping center.  I also got some bagels that Ellen wanted.  The rest of the day was drinking and talking.

John is going to be doing some outside pavers.  He bought a tile saw to cut them.  On Monday we put it together.  I convinced him to go back to Harbor Freight for the stand, rather than cobbling together one he already had.  The stand was only $40.  So we went there.  We also stopped at a liquor store again for more scotch.  We also bouight a box of safe and sane fireworks at a stand.  The last stop was Safeway for groceries.  Then it was home to finish work and the saw and then continue drinking.

The fourth was a sit at home and drink day.  That's about all we did.  Of course everyone was surfing also.  I ordered all of the stuff I needed from Amazon to install a radio in the Ranger.  In the evening we set off the fireworks.  It was amazing to watch people setting off the unsafe kinds (from Washington) all over the valley.  Some people had spent a lot of money on some pretty impressive fireworks.  The noise went on well into the night, but it didn't keep us up.

Wednesday was go back home day.  We ate breakfast and then sat around for awhile talking.  All total we had killed off almost two bottles of scotch during the stay.  Then it was time to leave.  On the way home we stopped at Fry's so I could by a diode that I'd forgotten to order.  When we got back it was feed cats, clean cat box, and load up the laundry.  The goddamn starlings had covered the truck in bird shit.  I had to spray it all down and then run a brush over t to clean it.

After the wash we had lunch and went out to shoot.  We shot 150 rounds or so at the two story 5-stand.  It was fun.  By the time we were finished it was dinner time.  After dinner we went back to the club and socialized with the other people staying here.  There's 8 trailers here because both us and tri-county have shoots this weekend.

In the evening I watched the Dodgers win a close game.