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rDay Five – Walkin’ The Dog

Spring is springing, dogs are walking.   Supplementing the morning walk, today we do a late afternoon round through the campus, to the park where the kids played many years ago and where now “their” trees have grown to over two stories in height since planting them for Nik and Ivi across the street at the old homestead, up the secret return path to campus, and past the police station.

rDay Four – Upper Igo

Sunday morning finds us at the Upper Igo MERA (Mt. Emily Recreation Area) trail.  Alone except for a brief encounter with a solo mountain bike rider, the three of us — Kim, Charlie and self — hiked about for nearly two hours.  No bears, no cougars, no wolverines.

Stopping at Riverside Park on the return, we crossed the footbridge (see an earlier post here) over the river — Charlie refused to put a paw on the bridge unless he was carried — and hiked the length of the new trail across from the park.  After nearly another hour, we head for home and lunch.

rDay Two – Apricot Macaroon Project

Following a morning of walking downtown, dropping in on some people and photographing, a strange desire for macaroons prompted a spontaneous self-help project.  Required a quick power-walk downtown for coconut.  Kim assisted with dicing some dried apricots and pointing out the location of appropriate tools, facilities and ingredients (some of which now bear newly-affixed labeling, in keeping with the responsible backpacker’s/camper’s tradition of leaving a trail and campsite in at least equal and preferably better condition than it was found) .  By 5pm, the results were ready for sampling with some vin rouge.   Photographic evidence has been assembled to preclude an anticipated reaction of disbelief on the part of dear daughter and chef-in-absentia, Ivi..

Kim, Ivi, Cars and Rain

Rainbow and Photo by Kim
Rainbow and Photo by Kim
Another opportunity for windshield photography.  Much of it in the rain, and it even came with a rainbow.

In celebration of Kim’s birthday, we travel to Portland to rendezvous with Ivi, delivering to her some of her belongings and important tools that she inadvertently left behind when she departed in January to begin a new semester.   Just happened to squeeze in a couple of hours at the 2015 Portland Auto Show (photos to be published on another blog soon).  And there was lunch at Pure Spice, shopping at Trader Joe’s and an evening foray for some frozen yogurt.