My Day in Port Angeles

 I'm sitting here having a bowl of Rice Krispies (and a bagel) for dinner. Why?  Because I've been out and about all day long and I'm exhausted! Had eleven stops!

I left the apartment around 9:20 this morning and stopped at my daughter, Sue's place in Port Angeles to drop off a birthday gift. From there I went to Walgreen's to pick up reprints, and over to my daughter, Jenni's house to pick up a step stool I had given her but decided I needed back.

I took a picture (of course) of Sammy, my other grand dog.

Then we drove to Grandview Grocery (in my old neighborhood) 'cause they have a post office inside. I knew it was going to cost me as I needed a book of stamps and had four gifts to mail. $60 later we drove to see Joyce Lee. Luckily, she was just driving up as she'd been to the library.

After that we drove to Swain's as Jenni needed to buy Wayne some slippers. We then hit Harbor Freight so I could buy some mini flashlights.  From there we were off to Walmart.

By that time we were both starving so we stopped at Frugal's for cheeseburgers.  The seagulls were 
in our face and fat and sassy as ever. They sit there and stare at you while you eat. Once you throw out a french fry, one starts squawking calling the others in and I laughed as I pulled out my phone to take a picture.

Back to Jenni's to drop her off and she gave me one of her stacked rocks creations. She has a bunch of them. I'm thinking I might pour paint some rocks and make a few myself.  She glues them together.

I might use some of the rocks I already have since a few have paint chips on them from where I stacked them. (and shouldn't have)

 I googled stacked rocks when I got home....

Scramble around Maine’s Acadia National Park long enough, and you’ll spot the distinctively stacked rocks amid the bigger granite boulders.  Known as the Bates Cairns, they’re like miniature stone bridges: two base rock columns, one mantel, and, on top, the smallest rock or pointer. You might mistake them for accidental, humble art arranged by kids, but the cairns are actually a big—and purposeful—part of Acadia’s heritage. “The cairns date back to Waldron Bates, one of the original pathfinders on Mount Desert Island,” says Acadia Summit Steward coordinator Steph Ley. “In the 1900s, he built some of the trails that we still walk on today.” Ley and her team are volunteers who educate park visitors about leave-no-trace practices and help to maintain trails. This includes repairing and restacking cairns, which serve as both guideposts for hikers (the pointer stone points the way) and aesthetically appealing objects.Call them cairns, piled up rocks, or stone johnnies—stacked stones seem to be everywhere. They turn up in national parks, balance on graveyard tombstones, and heaped at the feet of statues at religious sites.

I wanted to stop and visit Mary Norton in Sequim AND hit the casino but by the time I got done in Costco, it was getting dark and my legs were yelling at me to get my butt home! Luckily, I only had the energy to buy the toilet paper and a large sack of walnuts.

When I got home I saw the carpet layers had FINALLY returned to tear up the carpeting on this floor. Guess they'll be working on it all week and longer.

Had the news on just now but quickly turned it off as I'm sick of hearing the same thing over and over and over. Football is better anyhow.

Tomorrow I have to do a load of laundry although now that I think about it, maybe I'll go do it right now while no carpet people are hanging out.  Looking forward to using my step stool too as I have all kinds of new things I want to do to my walls. I've also realized that it's large enough that I can put my mini lighted Xmas tree on top and other decorations below. Oh boy!

Well, I took a break to get the laundry going so now I have to get my second wind to finish things up. Side note:  I opened my bedroom window all the way last night (about midnight) 'cause I thought the room was too stuffy.  The next morning I noticed a very cabbage like smell throughout the place.  I knew that smell!  The mill!  Ugh!  Out came the room spray.