[rDay 894]
Whereupon we learn that Arlene’s house was once Janet’s childhood home, Christy guides us on a tour of the amazing historic hilltop residence, Jeff and Christy recall and relive 50s radio comedy programs, Ivi proffers her newly-baked nectarine cake, Tsuneko and Arlene brew tea, and hilarity and good cheer abound…
[rday 895]
On Tuesday, we convey Ivi to her departing return flight to Seattle from Walla Walla Regional Airport. (The fiasco of the arriving trip, a couple of days earlier, will be documented later in an forthcoming, humiliating post.)
Coming and going, the forest-fire-fueled smoke created a foglike atmosphere of varying intensity along the route over I-84, Hwy 125 and Hwy 11/12. (Don’t ask how I, as the solo occupant and driver, managed these in-motion views.)
Returning to La Grande and its only moderately smoky skies, we drop by the Tuesday Farmers Market …
