Marion's Miscellaneous Musings

Tami's parents and little sister just spent a week with us. Now we know why Tami is wonderful -- she comes from a wonderful family! They are very generous (starting with loaning us their daughter!) and there was a constant little competition about who was going to pay for what. (I won once just by shopping by myself!) He is an engineer and she teaches math and physics, so we could talk technical, which is always fun. They also like to see and do new things, and it didn't seem to matter that it rained a lot. The dog loves them, because they love dogs and would scratch her in all the right places.

Fine loves her quilt, shown here in all it's glory. With Jack doing his usual weird expression for the camera.

We went hiking in the mountains, they went to Fort Walla Walla, we went to a museum about the history of the Manhattan Project, we walked the dog along the river, we talked about everything from concrete to WW2. And of course we compared notes about Tami! Turns out she behaves better for us than them. Go Figure. Never once got to the weather, until they needed to know about what they were heading into today. Thoroughly enjoyable.

They headed back to Seattle this morning, where it is going to rain tomorrow. But that is normal.

(I blame the rain on the Icelandic volcano, which one commentator wants to nickname Ed.)