TWAE2 -- Garage Sales and Friend Time

Finally got going on Friday May 2 and met my bro at REI. Purchased some Smartwool socks (very satisfactory stockings -- never knew socks could be that designed, but the proof was in the pudding and the feet like the socks) and a new water bottle without Bisphenol A (BPA).

The bro took me to his intellectual, dialogical office (which I had never seen). Lots of electrical diagrams and drafting pencils. Neat.

7:20 pm Friday found me meeting my friend CS -- I hadn't seen her since last summer and boy was it ever good to see her and catch up! We had our typical good discussions.
Saturday we went out to eat with L&M W (the couple she was staying with), and then hit the city-wide Halsey garage sales. I got to see lots of Mennonite acquaintances I hadn't seen for a while, and investigated the purchase of cape dresses (none of them fit). We traversed by foot most of the west side of Halsey and even walked up to Shoppe of Shalom. Good (though non-aerobic) exercise.

I was bad and didn't carry my cell phone as we walked. I had promised my brother that I'd go hiking Saturday afternoon. He was keen to do this, and as I didn't answer my phone he drove all the way from Canby to Halsey in search of us. We all went to Pioneer Villa (old stomping grounds for the youth in that area) for lunch and then my bro and I bade CS adieu.

-To be continued-