What a fantastic day! I started the day with a nice long walk, taking a new route that is quite a bit longer than our usual walk. It took more than an hour and a half, which means it was probably about 5 miles. We only had one altercation with another dog, whose owner wanted to stop and process the situation and try to determine why his dog, who was usually so calm, got so angry with my dog. Seriously. My dogs are super annoyed with him and his dog, and this fellow wanted to figure out why. They are dogs! Why do you think?! Just get out of our way, fellow. But I digress.
After the walk, I grabbed a quick bowl of cereal and a shower, then we were off to look at houses. Ouch. Those cheap houses were not in good shape. They were all very small and in pretty bad condition. I fell in love with one house, but Brian hit his head at least once in every room of the house (the Realtor called it a fun house), so that one was out. The last one was in great shape, but it had already signed earlier that day, so that one was out. My favorite (deep, heavy sarcasm) one had two cats. The cats had piddled all over the place and one of them had thrown up. Really, how do they expect to sell that place? Oh right, it is Portland... It will go in a heart beat.
After looking at houses, we called over and found out that my brother and sister-in-law were available for lunch. It was Sharon's birthday (woo hoo, happy birthday, Sharon!) so we celebrated with burritos and a fabulous chocolate cake. Yes, I had cake...and it was spectacular! Man. It was dark, dense, moist and not too sweet. I had the biggest sugar high after eating that cake. It was only one layer, but my goodness, it was rich. Wow! Sharon got a kitten for her birthday, and we spent much of the day coming up with names for the cat. It came with the name of Ares, but we all felt that the god of war was not quite right for this animal. After much discussion, we came up with Mingus. I've called him Mingus Kahn for short. Like every other cat I've ever met, he tried to get his evil kitty fur and dander all over me and my stuff. Bad kitty! Cats all sense that I'm allergic to them and they all try to kill me. Young Mingus is no different.
We left their house after wishing Sharon a great birthday and went to pick up Brian's most favored status cousin Sally. We've been looking forward to her visit for weeks. The plan was to go visit a food cart for dinner, then walk around the city for awhile. Sadly, most of the carts are lunch only, so we decided to go home and make dinner, instead. We were so glad we did. Dinner was a pear salad with pizza. The pizza was topped with fresh corn, potatoes, kale, onion and red pepper. We sprinkled a little cheese on top, and a whole lot of cheese on Sally's part. Sally is crazy super fit and all sorts of fun. She was lording her cheese consumption over us, so I made her eat some of Sharon's birthday cake as punishment. She complained loudly over every bite. Poor Sally!
Oh, it is so late and I need to go to bed. Tomorrow will be very busy and lots of fun. Be happy and healthy!
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