VISITORS

It has been a couple of busy weeks since my sister and her MIL, Joann came to visit. Monday, September first, about 5 pm, I heard a firm knock on the door. I opened the door and there was a young dog, frisking away. I bent to pet and ohh and ahh and looked up to see Gale. For some demented reason, I was not expecting her until Wednesay. Welcome! We chatted for a while and later on when everyone was ready to go to the motel room, Gale discovered that she had locked the keys in her car. Everyone was outside kind of milling about. Joann asked our neighbor, Gail A, if there was a locksmith anywhere. She answered, yes, its called Triple A. So we got the guy called who came in about an hour, unlocked the car and we were all set. In the meantime, neighbor Gail had fallen in love with Betty and four month old Golden Retriever. She promptly offered dog sitting services for however long my sister and MIL would be in town. Swell! That pretty much took care of the first evening. The next morning Gale came about 7 am, Joann was still sleeping in, and we went to a small cafe where Gail had told me had wonderful biscuits and gravy. They also had quite sturdy maple bars with yummy frosting. We purchased the bickies and returned to the house. We only ate two biscuits so we pooled the left o overs and gave them and Betty to our neighbor. Then we returned to my house and we both went upstairs to empty the closet from the north bedroom. They were all clothes which I had shrunk out of. YAY! I already had two very large black plastic bags full of clothing. So, we filled about seven of those sturdy plastic store bags with clothing. Gale did select a few blouses from the closet for herself. Then we loaded them into her car, took them downtown to Bree's, a charity shop who provides funding for women who need mammograms. They were not open so we jeft the bags in the doorway. We then went to pick up Joann and we shared the maple bar. Yummy! We decided to go to Bandon. Took the back road, very picturesque and curvy. We parked in downtown Old Bandon and toured about with masks. We firt walked to the Washed Ashore display. This is an art instillation of several of the sculptures made by local artists made of plastic trashed picked up from the beach. Very impressive, large seat turtle, a large fish with a mask on, heh heh. and a armature showing the copper wire inside the fish that holds the plastic. Almost everyone wore a mask. We did see a Karen and her five children, Greg must have stayed home. We went to the Cranberry Candy place. Joann found some salt water taffee for her husband. I found some jellies. Flavored lemon through blackberry and Licorice! I also purchased a half pound of chocolate toffee. Lordy! We decided to drive around a bit, we took the shore line drive and stopped at a place and admired the waves, sunshine, impressive rocks covered with seagull poop. Then we went looking for Lord Bennett, not open. Went back to Old Town Bandon, The Loft was not open. Okay, lets drive to Charleston to eat at the HighTide. They were not open! Um, how about Shark Bites? Yay, they are on 101 in downtown Coos Bay. We parked went in and ordered black cod fish and chips halibut fish and chips. They came with french fries and cole slaw. I have had better coleslaw, but ok. Went home, collected Miss Better and yakked until time to hit the hay. The next day, the ladies took me to Davita. They spent the morning going to Antiques 101 which is next to Shark Bites. When I got off the chair, I walked outside and could not see the car. I called Gale on her phone. I heard a horn hink and about that time she answered the phone and said , "We are in the shade." Okay. We decided to go to High Tide. We sat outside on the back deck and ordered Clam chowder for the ladies and I ordered the prawns, scallops, mushrooms sumpin' It was delicious. Then we went home and yakked some more. The ladies decided to go home early the next morning, so we said out good byes and they left. I had a lot of fun. Miss Gale says she will come next year. Betty will be full grown and well trained by then. The neighbors have already volunteered to dog sit. Thank you everyone!