tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17470584019408620162024-02-06T22:35:23.205-08:00North of BerkeleyMrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-75008516090335429712018-08-19T11:40:00.001-07:002018-08-19T11:40:17.225-07:00August 17: Home!Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-68684493119252700092018-08-15T09:40:00.003-07:002018-08-15T09:40:29.722-07:00August 10-17: Smoke over AshlandSmoke from forest fires envelopes Ashland, and we are doing our best to have a good time.<br />
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Outdoor performances are located to the smaller local high school stage, with long waits for ticketed customers if you want to get in.<br />
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Outside, the smoke stings your eyes and makes you want to keep taking showers every time you come in.<br />
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Kind of an anti-climactic end to the summer adventure. Climate change--<br />
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<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/how-climate-change-is-increasing-forest-fires-around-the-world/a-19465490">https://www.dw.com/en/how-climate-change-is-increasing-forest-fires-around-the-world/a-19465490</a>Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-84635195456075465172018-08-10T20:11:00.001-07:002018-08-12T19:00:44.689-07:00August 10: Ashland, OregonYesterday, Miss Louise once again slipped her harness under the scariest circumstances imaginable. She tore across a street with traffic to greet a dog on the other side. The young friend I was having coffee with in a sidewalk cafe tore after her, she eluded him, ran <i>back </i>across the street and assumed "naughty puppy" pose at my feet.<br />
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For the rest of the trip, she has to wear <i>two </i>harnesses. Her dog walker back home has found something more secure for her to wear on our arrival.<br />
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Today, the tenth, we drove through thick woodsmoke, the sun a bright red disk in the sky. Ashland not as bad as it was north of Grants Pass. Here's hoping well for outside shows, though my asthma is definitely feeling the effects.Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-60378404647633202312018-08-09T08:48:00.002-07:002018-08-10T20:12:21.606-07:00August 8-9: Lake Oswego, OregonNear Portland. A full dance card of friends to see.<br />
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I splurged on a room with a beautiful new of the lake.Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-8420740681173583852018-08-09T08:47:00.000-07:002018-08-09T08:47:04.048-07:00Eloise in the WaterI spoke too soon. While I went to have dinner with an old friend in Bremerton, Penny took the dogs down to the lake, where Louise once more slipped her harness and proceeded to play in the water, but not swim.Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-7152743770557127632018-08-06T14:27:00.001-07:002018-08-06T14:28:29.834-07:00August 4-7: "Cousins at the Lake" in Port Orchard, Washington<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A houseful of relations at a rented lake house at Lake Carney. Many young children. Eloise, as it turns out, is just fine with kids, even with young and clueless ones. They have to be told to leave Bobby alone, however.<br />
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Eloise has no interest in water, however, while my Washington sister's Jack Russell terrier enjoys swimming and waterboarding. Go figure.Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-53723277772663863312018-08-03T20:28:00.001-07:002018-08-06T14:22:02.821-07:00August 3: Missoula, Montana<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Across the beautiful state of Montana to Missoula. <br />
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The Missoula LaQuinta offers creekside breakfast--a terrace off the breakfast room overlooking the water.<br />
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I find Missoula very appealing, but my relations remind me that this is August. If I don't like winter in New England, I sure wouldn't like it in Missoula.<br />
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We took a little detour to the south to see Mount Rushmore, and arrived late in Gillette. Today, on to Missoula, Montana.Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-77264498828936238852018-08-02T05:53:00.001-07:002018-08-04T00:35:08.540-07:00Lammas in Sioux FallsThrough the farmlands of southern Wisconsin and Minnesota, rich and green-looking.<br />
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Windmills are everywhere. One billboard blares the input that "Wind power is not the answer!" It looks to me as if it is working for some people, anyway.<br />
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We made Sioux Falls, South Dakota for the night. On across South Dakota today.<br />
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The address of the house where we lived is on my birth certificate, and Siri found it with no trouble:<br />
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One of my dim memories is that the house was white, but that of course can easily change in 70
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Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-9917801771829053612018-07-31T05:40:00.003-07:002018-07-31T05:40:52.222-07:00July 30: Back to South BendA night in South Bend going back the other way. A picnic and walks in the park along the river.Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-79377187314875951042018-07-29T18:08:00.000-07:002018-07-29T18:08:46.348-07:00July 29: DuBois, Pennsylvania<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-12233991914086449162018-07-29T18:04:00.003-07:002018-07-29T18:06:01.982-07:00July 28: Cousin Penny's in Rhode IslandA night here to regroup, then with Penny on west to Seattle.Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-17828063694759647162018-07-29T18:03:00.001-07:002018-07-29T18:05:48.008-07:00July 27: Last Day in Massachusetts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bobby and Eloise had a long walk, and Auntie gave them chicken soup for breakfast, and Mom stuffed toys with treats. Now she has to sort, pack, mail boxes. However, it would be a much better idea for her to forget about that and throw the ball.Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-30783071133483415302018-07-25T15:11:00.002-07:002018-07-25T15:14:12.707-07:00July 25: Mason, New HampshireMy niece Em and I had lunch with old friends at Pickity Place:<br />
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I took a picture of my dessert before I ate it. Em officially welcomed me as an honorary millennial.<br />
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Now three days of organizing and packing to get ready for the six-day Westward Journey. Cousin Penny is coming along to visit our mutual relations in Seattle. This will be make everything a lot easier.</div>
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Re-connecting after so many years, with so much water under the bridge is a complex and many-layered experience. Maybe material for a novel, if I had the time.</div>
Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-73730330738560548772018-07-16T12:04:00.001-07:002018-07-16T12:04:33.950-07:00In the BerkshiresMy sister and I took off for two days of theater at Shakespeare and Company in the Berkshires:<br />
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We saw <i>Macbeth</i>, well-acted but with a director's decision to omit the three witches, which really doesn't work.<br />
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The program notes mentioned the modern religion of Wicca and not wanting to offend anyone with the negative image of witches.<br />
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No Wiccan with half a brain expects our use of the word "Witch" to re-write centuries of cultural history, including Shakespeare. We just capitalize it. Keep the witches in <i>Macbeth</i>, uncapitalized, and produce the play properly.<br />
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The best play was a modern one, <i>Morning after Grace, </i>three characters in their seventies on the morning after a funeral. The first half a truly hilarious situation comedy, the second half the heart-warming resolution to everybody's predicaments.<br />
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We also saw a good outdoor student production of <i>Love's Labour's Lost, </i>and I went to a concert production of <i>La Boheme </i>at Tanglewood.<br />
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Bobby and Louise stayed with my niece Em, and went to the Wrong Groomer (as noted below).Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-64690448407107205962018-07-16T11:29:00.001-07:002018-07-16T11:29:29.849-07:00Bad Hair Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We went to the groomer Cousin Em didn't recommend because the groomer she <i>did </i>recommend was booked through the end of the month.<br />
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With only two groomers in town, it's now clear why the other one gets booked up.<br />
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Fortunately, hair grows, but our artistic groomer back in California is going to be very upset.<br />
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Auntie says well, now we are clean, at least.Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-57179431466632788082018-07-11T03:12:00.002-07:002018-07-12T01:43:04.299-07:00Barre, VermontWe're just back from a few days in Central Vermont, visiting with an old high school friend.<br />
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There's a new small-dog park in Barre. Bobby and Eloise met a little poodle mix and had a wonderful time playing.<br />
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The next day, cream tea on the lawn at Perennial Pleasures in East Hardwick:<br />
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Miss Eloise got a new harness a few weeks ago. She can get out of this one, too.<br />
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<br />Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-14786863522307919742018-07-11T03:04:00.001-07:002018-07-25T15:16:06.438-07:00July 8th Was Bobby's Birthday15 years old!<br />
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We've been together since he was a tiny puppy. Now his kidneys are
gradually failing, his vision is limited and his hearing is selective.
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confused, later in the day rallies, orients himself, and plays.<br />
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(with Eloise).Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-63938522442889686562018-07-07T00:28:00.001-07:002018-07-07T00:32:44.115-07:00WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? - Official Trailer [HD] - In Select Theaters J...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FhwktRDG_aQ" width="480"></iframe><br />
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We saw this in Amherst last night--very highly recommended, especially if you grew up on Mr. Rogers, or even if you didn't.<br />
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Very timely. (<i>He</i> was a lifelong Republican--shows you what they have come to now.)Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-64932240088949366962018-07-04T17:43:00.003-07:002018-07-07T00:17:17.267-07:00Fourth of July in Vernon, Connecticut<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Fourth from Eloise!<br />
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We went to the lake and met a lot of cousins. <br />
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Marty the Corgi is totally cool. They threw sticks for us and we ran around like crazy.<br />
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(Bobby stayed home with Auntie because it was so hot.)<br />
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<br />Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-4880734861733461822018-06-30T14:04:00.002-07:002018-06-30T14:06:27.155-07:00South Hadley: ProtestingToday I went to two vigils, one in North Hampton and then on to Belchertown. Good-sized crowds for small New England towns--around a hundred at the first one, probably about three hundred in Belchertown. But here in the "happy valley," we are preaching to the crowd, with one car out of two beeping with approval as they passed.<br />
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Once, a woman near me said in surprise and consternation, "That man just gave us a thumbs <i>down</i>!" Are we in just a bit of a bubble?<br />
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I'm feeling very discouraged every time I think about the world outside our bubble.<br />
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We are in the middle of a heat wave--it feels hotter here than it did in the southwest. Comparable temperatures and a lot of humidity. Even with the air conditioning on, the dogs enjoy the cool stone floor of the entry way.<br />
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<br />Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-38859170279035701452018-06-29T16:31:00.000-07:002018-06-29T16:31:20.165-07:00Day 23: South Hadley, Massachusetts!Bobby here.<br />
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This morning when it was time to get in the car again, I had just had enough. I lay down and went limp. Mrs. D. picked me up, and I growled at her. She put me in the car, and I growled some more.<br />
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All the time, there is Eloise sitting in her car seat, doing that "I'm such a good girl" thing that she does. Well, I wasn't the one who peed on the hotel furniture back in Arizona. Just sayin'.<br />
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But finally, here we are at auntie's house, where I know my way around. Whew. Not a day too soon.Mrs. Drinkwalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858509593370567923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747058401940862016.post-52044430828457304112018-06-27T15:05:00.001-07:002018-06-27T17:45:17.751-07:00Day 22: Victor, New YorkWe played touch-tag with a rainstorm most of the way from Cleveland to the Rochester area, and now have settled in for the last night on the road--for awhile, anyway. Tomorrow night we will be in western Massachusetts.<br />
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Things to bring the next time: 1) Towels to dry off dogs after pit stops in the rain. 2) A compass. Most directions begin with, "Head north on ... " In an unfamiliar town and with clouded skies, who knows which way north is?<br />
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