Saturday, January 5, 2019

Road Trip...19º

January is not usually a good time for a road trip, but after Pam's haircut in December, we both made appointments for January 4th, with the stipulation, "If the roads are good."...We were on the road by 8:30am, roads mostly bare, some icy spots, well sanded corners in the Minam Canyon, windy as we neared LaGrande...Getting out of the car at Grocery Outlet, we found out just how cold and windy it was!

An hour of shopping at "GO," before Pam navigated our way to the Me Daza Solon, where we tiptoed around the icy parking lot and felt good that the wind wasn't howling there...Our beautician "Quinn," a classmate and friend of Becky's finished cutting our hair in less than 2 hours and said, "I scheduled myself a long lunch hour so we can go to my house and see our remodeling project now in progress...A new kitchen was her "Christmas Present."...The Golden Crown, was our choice for lunch before Quinn left us, for her next appointment...Lunch was delicious and once again we had to slip/slide our way in a parking lot...LG had a major snowstorm a few days ago and snow was piled high everywhere and now after wind and rain, the city is covered in ice.

Next stop was BiMart, the parking lot was bare and dry, very little wind in that part of town and a great place to shop...Small enough that you can find things or find a friendly employee to help you...It was almost balmy and no wind as we left BiMart...The Subaru was quite full, but one more item (tamed jalapeno peppers) was still on our list...Did we dare brave WalMart at 3pm?

BiMart and WalMart are only a few miles apart but it was a struggle to open the car doors at Walmart because of the howling wind, that comes out of Ladd Canyon...Luck was with us, as we found two large jars of tamed peppers, pick up a Coke (to keep us alert on the drive home) at the check stand and left LaGrande at about 4pm, that would put us through the canyon before dark...Home safe and sound about 6pm, it was a good day!..Hugs To All and thanks for reading my "blathering"...OWAV:)

PS...Cienna arrived in Chile, let the adventures begin.


Windy City.

New Hairdo's



No comments:

Post a Comment