Author: Doris

Ready To Leave Washington DC

Well, tomorrow I am flying back to Portland, OR. and to enjoy the cool summer weather at Washogal, WA there.  After spent about 20 days here in Washington DC, the deer fence has been remodeled, the outside of future bedroom basement egress window has been tidied up, the yard looks nice, the basement is all cleaned up (after 8 trips to the dump site to get rid of all papers, boxes and card boards), of course, the messy car paint on Rena’s Honda CRV has been removed carefully.

But, the first problem was the weather was hot, the upstairs AC didn’t work and car AC was barely functioning.  It was hot, hot, without AC and with more heat.  The second was with all this dusts, weeds, my allergy was coming back strong.  Evidently, I survived and felt good now.  Can’t wait to see Rena there.

Trees in my path.

I went for a run by myself this morning and made it only 0.75 miles before I called it quits. I rarely do that, my heart and mind just weren’t into it today. Maxi, my trusty doggie coach, was still eager to keep going; that dog lives to run. So to make up for the lack of distance, I gave her more interesting sniffing territory – I went home through the woods behind the house.

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Driving along the streets, aside from the few tarps nailed to roofs, you
can hardly tell that a tornado went through our neighborhood. However,
through the back trails of the neighborhood, the destruction is still
pretty evident. I wonder if they are going to clean up the trails, or
if they are technically unmaintained trails worn deep by many children
and dog walkers.

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