Late Friday night Betsey and I decided to run down to Grants Pass to visit Mum and Dad. We called ahead to make sure it would be all right, and headed out early on Saturday. Lunch was served shortly after we arrived. Mum and Betsey immediately went out to get fixings to make Turkey sandwiches while dad and I fussed around with a broken oven. After lunch and fussing with the oven a little longer, Dad, Betsey and I went down to Les Schwab to get tires for Dad's car. Betsey was pretty happy to go smell tires with us.
While we waited for the tires, we watched the Beavers and the Ducks battle it out on TV. As we started watching, the Ducks started to eat away the 21 to 7 lead the Beavers had established. A fumble, turnover, touchdown? We were exasperated. I was starting to talk about how we clearly shouldn't watch, when the Les Schwab guy came in and said the car was ready. Thank goodness, any longer and we could have given the game to the Ducks.
When we arrived back home, dad and I attacked the oven again. We made good progress and thought we had everything figured out. We powered up the oven to find smoke coming from the harness. Guess we crossed some wires somewhere. Oops.
With dinner time approaching we headed out to Abby's. The place was crowded and warm. We only wanted the warm, but it would have to do. Dinner was great except for the final piece of chicken, which seemed too bloody to possibly be fully cooked.
We rounded out the evening with some games of Sequence. It's not a bad little game, but it always takes forever. BoardGameGeek says it only takes ten minutes to play a round, and I suspect they're right if I'm not playing. I take forever to make my decisions. Dad won all four games we played, one teamed boys vs. girls, and the other three heads up mum, dad, and myself. Betsey was officially out of the last three games, and unofficially on my team rooting me on.
We headed to bed early and were up even earlier to get back to C-town for 11:00. Betsey had a meeting. On the way out of town we picked up some Dutch Bros. and asked for the final results on the Civil War. Beavers won in double overtime. Excellent. I knew we needed to stop watching.
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Tom may have preferred it if you'd lingered in front of the TV at Les Schwab a little longer. But I'm glad you elected to move along.
I just realized it's been so long since I've eaten Abby's pizza that I have no recollection of how it tastes. None. All I can summon up in my mind are Wild River and Papa Murphy's. Strange.
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