1. Not long after getting underway with my morning routines, I buzzed over to Yoke's and picked up some breakfast groceries. Back home, I fixed a vegetable scramble with garlic, onion, mushrooms, red pepper, broccoli, and little red potatoes. To top the scramble, the Deke, Laura, David, and I could choose from Frank's RedHot sauce, halved cherry tomatoes, feta cheese, or grated white cheddar. We also had English muffins, Dave's Killer 21 Whole Grains and Seeds bread, and Dave's Killer raisin cinnamon bagels available. This was my first cooking project since we moved into Mom's house and it worked out great. Laura and David took off for Missoula late in the morning and will stay with us again on Tuesday night on their way back to Washington and Oregon.
2. Around noon, Christy, Carol, and I met in Christy's living room to update ourselves on business details related to Mom and to make sure we all knew what needed to be done in preparation for Friday's Celebration of Life (at 11:00 at Mountain View Congregational Church -- formerly the United Church, across the street from our house) and for the reception to follow at Carol and Paul's house. We then paraded over to Mom's house to sort through things upstairs. I made a trip to the dump afterward and brought several boxes of things downstairs to go to St. Vincent de Paul's tomorrow -- later in the day, I filled a few more garbage bags and made a pile of magazines and newspapers to be recycled. In the next couple of days, I'll deal with books, both upstairs and in the basement, more miscellaneous items that need to be cleared out, and start filling boxes or bags with old bills, receipts, bank statements, tax return records and other such items to take to a shredding service.
For years, we used to jokingly call Mom's house "The Incredible Shrinking House" because the house seemed to get smaller and smaller as Mom added another chair or a love seat or a bookcase or any number of things to the different rooms in her house and as the things she wanted to keep and not dispose of grew.
I am having the opposite experience now. Day by day, I feel like I'm living in "The Incredible Expanding House" and my hope is that the Deke and I will figure out ways to keep the house feeling roomy.
3. To cap this busy day of hosting friends and clearing out the house, the Deke and I went to Radio Brewing for a couple glasses of beer and some delicious parmesan-garlic truffle fries. Paige came in with her husband and mother-in-law (from Connecticut) and we yakked with them; Paige was very happy and announced she had just passed her motorcycle operator test; Radio Brewing's owners, Fred and Ashley, were in and we introduced ourselves and gabbed with them, mostly about what it's like to move to Kellogg from other parts of the country; Johnny was working the taps and he brought his six week old Heeler in for us to see, hold, and pet; Becky popped in and I passed on greetings to her from Dick and Renae -- and she returned them; Becky played a dice game with a friend and her pal told the Deke and me about having been up Avery earlier in the day where he saw a dog on the loose -- he thought it was a German Shepherd, but it turned out to be a wolf and so he didn't rescue it. It turns out our conversations with people in Kellogg are not the same as those we had in Maryland and down at DC Brau in our nation's capital.
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