Our adventure continues, even if our journey does not.

We are settled into our cat box/burning hair fragranced pet friendly room, thankful that the dogs are comfortable and able to stay with us.  I could not imagine leaving Millie in a kennel not knowing when the cancer will overtake her.  Our beds are pillow top and we have a sliding glass door for fresh air along with the best TV reception and number of channels since our journey began.  We don’t know when the mold remediation will start or when it will be complete but we are comfortably living In Eugene Oregon limbo for the next few weeks.

One huge variety store, Hirons, has stores all over Eugene and appears to be the biggest jumble of junk and impulse buying goods I’ve ever seen.  John and I wandered around for half an hour just looking.  You could stand in one place for 10 minutes and not see all that is jammed onto one shelf.    And to further complicate your sight sorting abilities, it has bargain bins with unrelated items all thrown in together.

We have finally discovered the great eateries.  Breakfast is a local pancake house or Studio One Cafe, an eclectic little house turned café with all types of omelets and interesting twists on salmon offerings, the salmon they smoke themselves and it is moist, flavorful and just plain yummy.  We have been skipping lunch for an early dinner.  Dinner has been purchased from the local Whole Foods type store, Market of Choice, and it is just across the street.

And then there are the silver linings….The professional installer, and I use that word loosely, who put in our solar system has insurance.   We only have to move bedroom things out to start the mold remediation.  We have a room that allows our pups.  We have LilyPad in a covered storage being paid for by solar guy’s insurance company and our food/lodging expenses being paid for by solar guy’s insurance company for the next few weeks.  If we had planned for this major inconvenience we couldn’t have planned better.

Eugene is getting ready to burst into bloom.  Redbud, Dogwood, Magnolia and others that I haven’t the least idea of the names line the streets and open spaces of the nearby Oregon State University campus, where we are temporarily planted.  Wild birds, geese, ducks of various types are everywhere, even in puddles in the parking lots.  Can’t wait to get out and take shots of the blossoms.